Annual Assessment Report Form

DUE JUNE 1, 2005

Directions: Please complete a form for each of the programs within your department. This form was designed to provide a format for assessment reporting and should not be used to limit the amount of information provided. Each box that is attached to each of the sections is designed to adjust to varying lengths. If you have any questions, please contact Denise Webster at x7714. Send the report form via email to devin1lk@cmich.edu.

1. Program Information:

Program	Spanish Major (B.A. / B.S.)
Department	Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
College	CHSBS
Academic Year	2004-2005
Report Submitted by	Alejandra Rengifo, Coordinator for Spanish
Phone/email	6513 / rengi1a@cmich.edu
Date Submitted	5/20/05

2. According to the Assessment Plan for this program, what were the planned assessment activities to be conducted during the 2004-2005 Academic Year? You may want to copy and paste from this program’s assessment plan (Section 3: Evidence and Artifacts).

Outcomes assessed for this year	Way this assessment was carried out	Expected measures from these assessment instruments
Student writing assignments and oral presentations from SPN 470B	Five (5) two-three page compositions with revisions, a six-eight page final paper with a written prospectus and outline (all written in Spanish), as well as two oral presentations given in Spanish, were used for this assessment. There are seven majors graduating this year.	Intermediate High level of proficiency on the ACTFL scale. [In our original assessment plan, we erroneously named this level “advanced intermediate.” Please excuse this mistake] [for ACTFL Guidelines, see http://departments.bloomu.edu/langcult/resources/actfl.html ]

3. Results, conclusions, and discoveries. What are the results of the planned activities listed above? What conclusions or discoveries were made from these results? Describe below or attach to the form.

Results, conclusions, and discoveries

For the writing component, one of the students was rated at Advanced Mid while the other six students were rated at Intermediate High. On the oral presentations, one student was rated at Advanced Mid (he is also a heritage speaker, meaning that Spanish was spoken in the home), one was Advanced Low, and five were rated Intermediate High. These results fall within or exceed the parameters to be achieved for this year’s assessment plan.

4. Use of Results. Did the results lead to program changes? If so, describe the changes made. If not, describe why changes were not needed.

We are satisfied with these results. They speak well for our efforts to concentrate on written and oral communication and encourage all of our majors to study abroad for at least a semester, even though a couple of the students spent only a summer abroad.

5. Dissemination of results, conclusions, and discoveries. How and with whom were the results shared?

The results of this year’s assessment will be shared with the other departmental faculty members at the first faculty meeting in the fall of 2005 and will be published on the FLLC website.