Pre/Post Testing For Course Assessment Tasklist
If you choose to run a pretest/posttest to evaluate student learning of course competencies, the College Research Services office can help you.  Office staff will perform the grading and analysis of the pretests and posttests for any GCC faculty who wish to use this instrument to help them measure student learning.
		Fall 2004 begins	8/23/2004
Note: Please plan and schedule tasks at least two weeks prior to start of semester
Task		Due Date	Responsible
1	Design pre/post test to work with generic answer sheets from College Research Services.  Our generic answer sheet has 45 questions with five possible responses (lettered A-E) for each question.	Prior to beginning of term	Instructor
2	Notify Director of College Research Services of intent to use pre/post testing for course assessment.  Note:  Tell CRS how many answer sheets you expect you will need for both the pre and post tests.	8/13/2004	Instructor
3	Send instructor a copy of the generic answer sheet provided by College Research Services and confirm with instructor that it will work with instructor's pre/post test.  Update answer sheets as needed (dates, terms, etc.)  Make sufficient number of copies to satisfy need for the whole academic year.  Notify instructor of go status.	8/18/2004	College Research Services
4	Pick up generic answer sheets from College Research Services (if you make your own copies, CRS may not be able to scan and produce analysis reports).	8/23/2004	Instructor
5	Conduct pre test	First week of class	Instructor
	Optional - If you want to see pre test analysis to analyze which course competencies your class is less familiar with, send answer key and completed assessments to College Research Services.  Within 2 weeks, CRS will return the answer key, the answer sheets and the analysis to you.
6	Conduct post test	Last week of class	Instructor
7	Keep pre and post test answer sheets and answer key until end of Spring term.	5/20/2005	Instructor
8	Send answer key and completed assessments (pre and post) to College Research Services.  If you took the option of having pre tests scanned and analyzed at the start of the semester, you do not have to forward these again.	5/20/2005	Instructor
9	Scan assessments with Remark software.	6/3/2005	College Research Services
10	Analyze results and provide pre and post analysis reports to instructor.  Return answer sheets and key to instructor.	6/3/2005	College Research Services
Notes:
CRS recommends an annual cycle for pre/post test course assessment rather than term for the following reasons:
	Gives the instructor the summer to evaluate results and make any desired adjustments for the following year
	Creates larger cohorts for analysis, decreasing the impact of outliers
	Efficiently uses College Research Services time
CRS asks that the instructors have the responsibility of storing their own answer keys and response sheets.  CRS will only have them during the period of time that they are scanning and preparing analysis reports.