Lake Tahoe Community College

SLO Committee Meeting

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Meeting Room

Minutes

Members Present:  Kurt Green, Steve Fernald, Larry Green, Beachy Orr, Rosie Hackett

Absent:  Jon Kingsbury

Staff:  Terry Livesay

Items discussed:

1)      Approval of minutes from January 31 meeting: Approved by consensus

2)     Start evaluation process of new courses submitted:

The committee reviewed four of the original six courses that were submitted for SLOs and MASLOs which resulted in four being moved forward and two that Kurt will review. 

3)  Evaluation of resubmitted courses:

The committee reviewed the six resubmitted courses which resulted in two being moved forward and four being returned.

4)  Review “Accreditation Institute: Notes and Reflections” handout from Kurt:

Further review was done by the committee and again the committee was impressed by how well it was written.  

5)  Discussion of SLOs and MASLOs for Web Site:

This discussion did not take place as the meeting time ran out.

6)  Discussion of committee’s role in follow-up with initiators of courses previously

returned:

This discussion did not take place as the meeting time ran out.

7)  Other items:

a)     Handout presented by Kurt: ‘The Role of Student Learning Outcomes in Accreditation Quality of Review’  by Barbara Beno was reviewed.

b)     Kurt suggested presenting to Senate ‘Core Competency Descriptions’  for LTCC.  The committee reviewed Cabrillo’s ‘Core Competency Descriptions’  and agreed to fashion LTCC’s after Cabrillo’s.

c)     Cabrillo’s ‘Assessment Method’  was discussed and the committee approved of how Cabrillo’s was done.

d)     SLO timeline was discussed:

·         2006-07:

Phase I SLO Course Level

·         2007-08:

Phase II SLO Course Level

            Phase I Assessing

·         2008-09:

Phase III SLO Course Level

            Phase I & II Assessing

e)     March 2 - Senate meeting – Kurt suggested the program be at the institutional level.  Kurt should have this in typed format and will bring to the Feb 28 SLO Committee meeting for review.

f)     Kurt will try to bring two or more possible assessment plans to the next meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:30pm.