Assessment Award

The JCCC Office of Outcomes Assessment has made its first Excellence in Outcomes Assessment Award, and the winners are all from the JCCC mathematics department:  Libby Corriston, Julane Crabtree, Linda O’Brien, Susan Pettyjohn, and Bill Robinson.  They earned the award for “team effort in the area of assessment”.

The assessment question defined by the team was to determine whether Mastery Tests in Math 115 (Elementary Algebra) had an effect on student performance on certain core questions included in the final exam of the course.  The results indicated an increase of 9 percentage points when a mastery test was used.

The external reviewer for the award commented that the team had “defined a strong research question and conducted a disciplined inquiry well.  The research design is impressive; data analysis is excellent and offers insight not otherwise possible.”