Student Learning Outcomes

Welcome to the SLO website, an effort coordinated by the Student Learning Committee, a subcommittee of Academic Senate. The resources available here are meant to help facilitate the change in culture and process of using outcomes and assessment for our programs and courses.

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Program Assessment

The focus for fall 2009 is to develop and implement an assessment to address both course- and program-level student learning outcomes. The results of this assessment will allow departments to discuss potential changes to their program in the spring as a part of preparing their e-PAR.

Program Outcomes

The focus for Spring 2009 is to develop Program Outcomes for Student Services and Instructional Programs. Through workshops and departmental meetings, faculty will have the opportunity to consider the outcomes that their services and courses help to support. By linking program to course outcomes where applicable, programs will begin conversations on where and how to assess these outcomes.

Process, Dialogue & Course Outcomes

The focus for fall 2008 is on Process, Dialogue & Course Outcomes. We started at course level in order to directly involve a large part of the campus faculty and utilize the strong curriculum developed over the last seven years. This was a natural starting point because outcomes assessment is already integrated into our curriculum. Instructors participated in a campus-wide effort that began with the assessment of one outcome in one course.

Academic Senate’s Position:

We encourage you to participate in course-level Student Learning Outcomes assessment by completing an Outcomes Submission Form and sending it to your department chair or Research by November 1. This information will provide the basis for department level discussions on the continuing development of outcomes assessment at the course and program level. If you are concerned about the relationship between outcomes assessment and evaluation, simply leave the results section empty.

District’s Response to Accreditation:

“The college believes that assessment is an on-going faculty-driven process to demonstrate and improve student learning.  As such, the goal of implementing student learning outcomes is to inform an analysis of the strengths and limitations of academic and student services programs based upon a review and reflection by the faculty. 

The results function as a “multiple measure” for programmatic health and, as such, they provide indications of student learning at the course and program level rather than gauges of the performance of individual class sections or instructors.”
— Accreditation Follow-Up Report, October 15, 2008

 

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