The Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Cycle at Cañada College

SLOAC Day
March 28, 2008

Cañada faculty and staff... check out the sharepoint site.
Get your login and password from your dean.

Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast	Theatre Lobby
9:00 - 10:30	Orientation and Inspiration	Main Theatre
10:30 - 12:30	Working Sessions	Buildings 3, 13, 17
12:30 - 1:15	BBQ Lunch and Fun Stuff	Frisbee Lawn
1:30 - 3:30	Working Sessions	Buildings 3, 13, 17

Handouts:

Today's Powerpoint Presentation

Information:

Cañada SLOAC Philosophy Statement

SLO Checklist (pdf version)

SLO Rubric (pdf version)

Forms

Instructions: Download a form. Each form is a doc file with specific fields to fill in. When finished with the document, Save As... the form number and the course number.
For example, suppose I am submitting an SLO and Assessment plan for Math 110, I would download Form #1, fill in the fields, and save as "Form1Math110.doc" (most of the time, MS Word automatically adds the ".doc" at the end.
**Submit completed forms to your deans and to canslo@smccd.edu.

Form #1: Use this for submitting an assessment plan for ONE SLO.
If submitting muliple files for the same course, you can save as:
"Form1Math110-1.doc," followed by "Form1Math110-2.doc," etc...

Form #2: Report assessment results (not yet available)

Form #3: Report reflection on assessment results (not yet available)

Form #4: Use this to report a SET of SLOs for a specific course.

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Helpful Links

SLO Support

Writing SLO's (online manual)

Assessment Support:

Creating Rubrics (Rubistar)
CalState Assessment Page
Assessments (Bakersfield's online manual)

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Professional Links

PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology Outcomes for Majors:
http://www.apa.org/ed/psymajor_guideline.pdf

HISTORY
Student Learning Outcomes in History
http://www.historians.org/teaching/ACE/TaskForceReport.cfm

SOCIOLOGY
Creating an Effective Assessment Plan for the Sociology Major
http://www.asanet.org/galleries/APAP/Assessment%20Final%20Copy%202005.pdf

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Student Assessment and Learning Outcomes
http://www.apsanet.org/section_563.cfm

PHILOSOPHY
Assessing Undergraduate Philosophy Programs
http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/teaching/assessing.html

ANTHROPOLOGY
For Teachers Resource Page—not much here, but can find stuff FROM here.
http://www.aaanet.org/resources/teachers/

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

ART HISTORY
See page 8.
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/caa-news-09-07.pdf

THEATER
ATHE OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FOR THEATRE PROGRAMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
http://www.athe.org/files/pdf/OutcomesAssessment.pdf

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