ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNINGIMPROVEMENT PLAN
Department:
Prefix:
Prepared by:
Date:
Part I. Summary of Findings
What do the data say about your students mastery of the core
skills valued by your department/program (PSLOs)?
Are there areas where your students are outstanding? Are they
consistently weak in some respects?
Do you see areas where performance is okay, but not outstanding,
and where you would like to see a higher level of performance?
Program Learning Outcomes
List full text of program SLOs assessed this cycle
Performance Trends
Summarize data and indicate high, mid, or low performance
Assessment Procedures
Evaluate the effectiveness of plan, tools, & methods
Comments/Clarifications
Explain factors influencing student performance or procedures,
if known
Part II. Discussion of Improvements
Together as faculty, reflect on the key findings summarized
above by discussing the following questions:
Instructional Improvements
How will these findings influence your own teaching
practice?
What collaborations might you and your colleagues be able to
work on to improve student learning?
Curricular Improvements
How well does our curriculum reflect and support our values for
student learning within our discipline (PSLOs)?
What common assignments/activities, textbooks/materials, program
requirements, course sequences, or other curricular considerations
might we benefit from reviewing or revising?
Procedural Improvements
How effective were our efforts to assess student learning and
performance? What went especially well? What didnt go well?
How might our assessment process, methods, and/or tools be
improved for the next cycle?
Part III. Outline of Next Steps
List immediate steps that this department can reasonably plan to
take to improve student learning during the next assessment
cycle.
Note: This is just a plan, so action steps should be reasonable
but also optimistic; include as many of the following details as
you can to start, and update this document as additional
information becomes available and/or as changes to the plan are
made.
Action Step
Specific, concrete step to improve student learning
Improvement Goal
Relevant area of improvement identified from previous
results
Timeframe
Achievable deadline for implementing change(s)
Participants
List of faculty & staff involved in improvement activity
