SCE needs faculty participation to finalize the statewide CB21 rubrics to be used to code noncredit courses and track noncredit student progress in the areas of ABE/ASE, mathematics, English, reading and ESL. These codes are used for noncredit accountability reports to the state and legislature so it is critical that we are able to more accurately demonstrate student success in noncredit!
In the May 2009 Noncredit CB21 meeting, noncredit faculty came together in the first stage to create noncredit rubrics describing the levels and progression through basic skills courses. The faculty used the credit rubrics as a reference and created rubrics appropriate to those levels of noncredit leading to transfer level courses.
This very valuable work will require some of your time, but we really need the input from you, the faculty discipline experts.
Here is what we need you to do:
1. Review the background on the CB 21 project, goals and guidelines – at this website http://www.cccbsi.org/bsi-rubric-information
2. Get copies of the course outlines you teach.
3. Review the DRAFT noncredit rubrics, found on the same website http://www.cccbsi.org/bsi-rubric-information and determine whether the current rubrics adequately describe outcomes or exit skills common to your courses at the appropriate levels. Remember:
a. The rubrics are not comprehensive of everything taught in the courses.
b. The rubrics describe exit skills or outcomes that would be universally common among community colleges.
c. Rubrics were better if the descriptions are similar at each level and increase in expertise, rather than just being unrelated expectations.
4. Use the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CUIVYVHYZi8ZixsYgLIOVg_3d_3d
to give us feedback to improve the rubrics before September 15.
5. If you are available, sign up for the CB 21 regional meeting where we will use all the feedback to finalize the rubrics Friday, September 18, at the North Orange County CCD, Anaheim Campus from 10 - 4 PM at the following link http://www.cccbsi.org/Default.aspx?shortcut=noncredit-cb21-meeting-2
There will not be time for further revision or vetting of these rubrics in the noncredit field, so it is very important for each noncredit campus to give feedback online and/or make sure that someone from your college attends this meeting to represent each of the disciplines of noncredit basic skills, ESL, English, mathematics, and reading.
Thank you,
Janet Fulks
August 12, 2009
Questions, please email jfulks@bakersfieldcollege.edu
