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GE/ISLO’s

GE/ISLO’s. Moving Forward Devon Atchison, SLO Coordinator Angela Feres, SLO Assistant. What are GE/ISLOs?. GE/ISLOs – Our GE SLOs and our ISLOs are one and the same. They are Core Competencies we would like our students to gain during their time at Grossmont College.

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GE/ISLO’s

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  1. GE/ISLO’s Moving Forward Devon Atchison, SLO Coordinator Angela Feres, SLO Assistant

  2. What are GE/ISLOs? • GE/ISLOs – Our GE SLOs and our ISLOs are one and the same. They are Core Competencies we would like our students to gain during their time at Grossmont College. • Assessment – We are expected to assess our GE/ISLOs. • The first step was Mapping the GE/ISLOs to our Courses in the General Education package. • The second step is conducting assessments to see if our students have gained the Core Competencies detailed in our GE/ISLOs.

  3. What are our GE ISLOs • Productive Citizenry • Informational and Technological Literacy • Mathematical Literacy • Scientific Inquiry • Effective Communication • Cultural Competence • Understanding of Arts and Humanities

  4. What have we done so far re: GE/ISLOs Assessment? • Mapping • Workshops re: GE/ISLO Assessment • Fall 2011: We asked departments to bring Course-level Assessment Data and analyze it through the lens of our GE/ISLOs (i.e. did the Course-level Assessment address the GE/ISLO? Did students achieve the GE/ISLO?) • Spring 2012: We looked at Surveys to see if students achieved the GE/ISLOs • Henrietta Lacks Week Survey • Student Satisfaction Survey

  5. What did we learn from these Workshops? • Example from Fall 2010 Mapping Workshop : History mapped to Understanding of Arts and Humanities & Effective Communication. SLO 1 for all of these courses asked students to analyze primary and secondary sources to support a thesis statement. For HIST 101, students had an 84% pass rate, while HIST 114 students achieved a 78% pass rate. This demonstrates success in GE/ISLO Understanding of Arts and Humanities because students met the SLO mapped to the GE/ISLO. Students also achieved GE/ISLO Effective Communication because they read critically and analytically, identifying central arguments and lines of reasoning in a number of different kinds of texts. • Recommendation: No changes needed

  6. 2nd Example: Fall Workshop • Example Math: . “For GE/ISLO Mathematical Literacy students struggled with using a chart to determine percentages (only about 59% of students correctly answered the question) and thus were partially successful at achieving ML.” The tool is still useful because it provides a graph and asks students to read/understand the graph and use it to calculate a percentage. • Recommendation: Partially achieved ML. No recommendations for changes to the assessment tool, though the department may consider pedagogical strategies for increasing success.

  7. Henrietta Lacks Survey Data: Productive Citizenry • Workshop attendees looked at data from the HL survey in groups. They then responded as to the efficacy of the survey data for evaluating the GE/ISLO PC • Suggestion • better frame verbiage of survey questions • Should know how many are surveyed in order to make good judgments about efficacy • Many of questions as currently worded do not map well to the GE/ISLOs and therefore can’t really be used to assess achievement of those outcome.

  8. Data: Scientific Inquiry • Workshop attendees looked at data from the 2010 Student Satisfaction Survey in groups. They then responded as to the efficacy of the survey data for evaluating the GE/ISLO SI • As a college, we got a C+ on achieving SI, according to our data. We need more courses and programs to participate in providing data. • Suggestions: • How to get more programs to participate in providing data: reward programs for conducting assessments related to GE/ISLOs; Include more people in President’s Retreat to look at/analyze data re: GE/ISLOs; get more student and faculty awareness of GE/SLos. • Recommend that all programs keep GE/ISLOs in forefront of mind when constructing courses. • Show comparative data between colleges to stimulate improvement (Districtwide and Countywide data)—tie this to the college’s reputation.

  9. What are we doing next re: GE/ISLO Assessment? • Fall Faculty Inquiry Group • Selected faculty will assess Effective Communication • Already assigned research paper will be evaluated in regular fashion, with second rubric based eval to assess EC • Survey conducted in random classrooms • Question will be chosen related to a GE ISLO chosen at random • Volunteers will offer the question • Assess outcome • GE SLO Fall Flex Week Workshop • Revisit prior semester data, • Discuss FIG and Survey Question methods • Discuss other possible assessment methods

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