An assessment forum sponsored by the Council on Academic Affairs and Council for Assessment and Student Learning will be held today.

The forum titled “Learning by Example: Sharing our Assessment Experience,” is scheduled to be held from 2:15 to 4 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

“This is an opportunity to learn about assessment practices that work and those that don’t work and to share your concerns, questions and needs in assessing student learning in the majors,” said Christie L. Roszkowski, management/marketing professor, in an e-mail to CAA.

Faculty will be present to share assessment experiences from the chemistry, middle level education, family and consumer sciences, marketing, sociology and anthropology, psychology, speech communication and theater art departments.

“A panel of EIU faculty from a variety of disciplines will share examples of techniques, tools, activities and processes that they have used or are using in assessment of student learning within majors,” Roszkowski said.

CAA will meet briefly before the forum to add items to the agenda for action to be taken next week. CAA will add to the agenda a proposal for a new creative writing course and a revision in the creative writing minor.

The new nonfiction creative writing course will focus on the essay, according to the proposal.

The creative writing minor revision will add that course to the minor requirements and will force students to take two 4000-level courses as opposed to the current requirement of one.