Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Summit

1. Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Summit Cañada College, Spring 2008

2. Welcome Comments Martin Partlan, ASGC President Tom Mohr, Cañada College President Ernie Rodriguez, AFT President

3. SLOAC Orientation WorkshopBased on a workshop presented by Marcy Alancraig & Sid Burks at the Senate Vocational Leadership Conference, March 2008 Ray Lapuz, Mathematics Professor SLOAC Coordinator Patty Dilko, Early Childhood Education/Child Development Professor ASGC Past President

4. To Deal with Student Learning Outcomes You Need: • Sense of Play • Willingness to Experiment • Healthy Dose of Skepticism • Ability to translate assessment theory and jargon into the language of our college

5. Accreditation Standards: The 5 Stages of Faculty Grief • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • Acceptance

6. Why Are We Here? • ACCJC/WASC – 2 year rule • Maintain Full Accreditation Status • Progress: Awareness, Development, Proficiency • The Goal: Sustainable Continuous Quality Improvement

7. Quickie Review: Standards Require • SLOs for all courses • SLOs for all programs • SLOs for all certificates and degrees

8. More Review • All SLOs must be assessed regularly • Assessment results must be discussed (dialogue & documentationare key elements!) • SLOAC must be tied into Program Reviewand College Planning

9. What the X?!& is an SLO? • Knowledge • Skills • Abilities • Attitudes that a student can demonstrate by the end of a course, program, certificate or degree

10. So what else is new? • Haven’t we always done this?

11. Yes!!! • Now, however, we are being asked to articulate and document our process in a new way.

12. SLOs: The Big Picture • Require HIGHER LEVEL thinking skills • May synthesize many discreet skills • Require students to APPLY what they’ve learned • Result in a product • Product must be evaluated or assessed by faculty Choose 1-3 most important concepts per class

13. Objectives: Nuts and Bolts • Describe small, discreet skills • Require basic thinking skills • Do not necessarily result in a product

14. SLOs v. Objectives • The Official Course Outline of Record at Cañada • Many of us have written objectives that would qualify as SLOs • Pick the best, modify Official Outlines later

15. Closing the Assessment Loop • Assessment must feed back into processes to improve teaching and learning • In the classroom • In the department • Across the entire campus • Assessment activities should be useful and easy

16. The Assessment Loop Gather Evidence Interpret Evidence College MissionGoals for the Teaching and Learning Environment How well do students achieve the learning outcomes that we set? Enhance teaching/ learning; inform institutional decision- making, planning, budgeting – adapted from: Peggy Maki, AAHE

17. Key Point! • Our college must design the assessment process and loop to fit our college’s culture.

18. Assessment Made Easy • Write SLOs that you are truly interested in learning more about. • When possible, use assessment tools that are already embedded into your course. • Write SLOs that allow you to gather meaningful data. • Vocational programs should use available external certification process.

19. Reporting on Your Progress • All forms for reporting are available on the SLOAC web page: http://www.smccd.net/accounts/canslo/ • Forms should be submitted electronically to your dean and the SLOAC Coordinator • 3 Forms 1. SLOAC Proposal 2. Report of Assessment Results 3. Reflection on Assessment Results

20. Where Does the Data Go? • Turn in data to your Dean • Analysis will be facilitated • Data will be reported in aggregate • Data will not be used in personnel evaluations • Senate will establish a policy next year

21. The Packet • Cañada College SLOAC Philosophy • Descriptive documents • Handy worksheets • Paper copies of forms

22. SLOAC Facilitators Available To Work With Groups Today SLO Development: • Sandra Comerford, College of San Mateo • Ray Lapuz, Cañada College • Karen Wong, Skyline College Assessment Development: • Cathy Hasson, Skyline College • Ben Stefonik, Cañada College • Katie Townsend-Merino, Cañada College

23. Instructions for Today • As soon as you choose a room, call Joan Murphy at: 306-3336 • Create at least one SLO for each current class • Identify an assessment technique for one SLO in each class • Remember to stop for lunch at 12:30 • Digitally submit SLOAC Form #1 for at least one SLO per class to your Dean and Ray Lapuz

24. By the End of the Semester • Be sure that your SLOs are complete for all classes • Complete the assessment on at least one class and submit data to your dean

25. During Next Semester • Complete the reflection process on assessment data from sp 08. • Complete assessment on at least one class • Be on the look out for updated and revised forms and a Handbook • Participate in department, division, and college-wide SLOAC activities

26. ACCJC: Sustainable Continuous Quality Improvement The Cycle Renews Itself Every Semester Building on the Last Semesters Work We like to call it: Becoming Overtly Responsive to Student Learning in Our Classrooms, Programs and College.

27. Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Summit Cañada College, Spring 2008