Co-Curricular Assessment
Co-Curricular Learning and Assessment Resources
The updated co-curricular learning guide and worksheet will be linked here soon.
These files are PDFs on the website. Email Patrice Hess, patrice_hess@ivcc.edu for Word versions.
2022-2023 Pilot Projects
- New Student Orientation: Connect to Complete
- One Book, One College
- Semester Tutoring
- Student Success - Wellness Days
- Student Success - Health Fair
Pilot Report
In the 2022-2023 academic year, five initiatives were involved in piloting structured co-curricular assessment. Each initiative was already established within the Learning Resources division and most initiatives have collaborative ties with other stakeholders in Student Services, college-wide committees, and faculty.
In November 2022, initiative leaders presented to the Assessment Committee their co-curricular plans based on the drafted co-curricular planning worksheet. In May 2023, initiative leaders provided updates on initiative activities, participation, feedback, and plans for improvements based on the assessment data collected.
Key findings for next steps:
- Re-imagine the Connect to Complete program, noting a decline in participation in the online program (14/515 eligible students); Consider moving the program back on campus in fall 2023, also offer the program stand-alone, not prefaced by the online New Student Orientation survey
- Continue to partner with external agencies, speakers, and other collaborators to sustain and increase momentum for the popular One Book, One College program; maintain a commitment to surveying the diverse types of attendees at these events (student, employee, community); Also continue to leverage the concurrent assessment work on this initiative, done in conjunction with the CARLI Counts Cohort 4
- Continue to invest in people and spaces dedicated to academic support (tutoring); expand staff to meet the demand for tutoring in-person and online; remodel the Academic Support Center to provide a variety of settings - communal, private, small group; expand evening and weekend services as feasible; Expand on co-curricular assessment with peer tutors and other student personnel in FY24
- Continue to collaborate with the Student Success Committee and the Learning Resources division to design and deliver events aimed at health and wellness; fall wellness day, spring health fair; focus on increasing student participation through collaborating with faculty who will refer students to events, integrate event goals into classroom content and activities
- Continue to review and refine the details of the IVCC co-curricular guide and worksheet, including aligning co-curricular learning outcomes to institutional learning outcomes
- Report specifically on assessment of student learning, likely indirect, as a result of involvement in co-curricular learning experiences
- In FY24, partner with the HLC Student Success Academy team to conduct co-curricular assessment on success initiatives identified in the Academy workshops; The SSA team is interested in a program review opportunity for initiatives and the developing co-curricular assessment process is a likely a good fit for reviewing success initiatives, with the added benefit of being able to report on co-curricular learning as well