SLO Assessment Committee

Meeting 9/24/2007

Present:  Kurt Green, Christina Tomolillo, Larry Green, Beth Laster

• SLO Assessments – should involve less than eight hours per semester of the instructor’s time.

What are the implications for Adjunct instructors?

• SLO Assessment – will begin with General Education courses

• Purpose of this Committee:  Develop assessment report, recommend assessment strategies, address related issues (such as workload issues)

• Senate – steps for the Assessment process

• MASLO – Methods of Assessing SLOs

• Guidelines for LTCC - Look at other colleges – very specific – per class (e.g. what did Cabrillo do for Psych 101?)

Course, department, program/degree, college-wide

• College-wide/Institutional SLOs:  Strategic planning, new mission statement

• Timeline for SLO Assessement:

2007-08           Phase I             Designing the process, General Education, one course per

area, SLO Assessment forms

2008-09           Phase II            Course level, department level, college-wide, 25%

                                                individual and program level

2009-10           Phase III          Writing assessment report

2010-11           Phase IV          Next accreditation visit

Phase I             2007-08

• Designing the process
• Gen Ed assessments
• Design forms

Forms and Process – pass through Senate on November 2 (present to Senate two weeks before – Oct 12)

Winter Quarter 2008 – AA Degree assessed

General Education

One course assessed in each of the AA patterns (e.g. Math, English, Psych)

2008-09           Individual Course and Program Levels:  25% assessed

New Program Plans – do assessments at the time

Assessing all courses – part of the program plan

Assessments – Every year

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