Homework Report

• How does Program Review compare to SLOACs?

• What benefits/ disadvantages would there be for revising Program Review to incorporate some/all SLOAC data-driven decision making?

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Module 3

BuildingInstitutional

Capacityfor Student Learning

Cycle ofInquiry

ChooseImprovement

TakeStock

NormStudentLearningOutcomes

NormAssessments

MakeImprovements

andEvaluate

BUILDINSTITUTIONAL

CAPACITY

IdentifyImprovement

Strategies

An Institutional Cycle of Learning about Learning

• Reach consensus about methods to sample student population based on what a program wants to learn

• Identify occasions to collect evidence through student assessment

• Score, analyze results• Collectively interpret and make

decisions about improvement strategies• Re-enter the assessment cycle to

evaluate efficacy of improvements

A Collective Commitment to Assessment for Learning

Includes:

• Structures, processes, decisions, channels and forms of information

• Resources and support- human, financial, technological

• Campus practices that manifest an institutional commitment

Structures, processes, decisions, channels and forms of information:

GOVERNANCE

Student Assessment Learning Team assures that:- faculty, staff and administrators use and act on

interpretations of assessment results to improve student learning

- Interpretations of assessment results are channeled into short- and long-term institutional planning and budgeting to focus institutional decisions and planning on student learning

- Institution- and program-level educational practices evolve based on what is learned from cycles of inquiry

Resources and support- human, financial, technological: PEOPLE

• Assessment Coordinator may have partial release time

• A team of faculty might receive a stipend

Resources and support- human, financial, technological: TIME

• Departmental planning time — availability and agenda!

• Planning faculty non-instructional time carefully

• Common use of overloads

Resources and support- human, financial, technological:

TECHNOLOGY

• Web-based information sharing• Campus interdepartmental

communication systems — availability, ease of use, faculty facility with use

• Cheap & easy: poster paper

Campus practices that manifest an institutional commitment

• Structure of jobs- meetings• Professional development —

another comment on “flex days”• Hiring practices

Resources: Explicit and Abstract

• Explicit: directly tied to SLOAC (faculty release time; conferences)

• Abstract: have less relationship to $$; can’t “be purchased”– Collegial culture supported by CEO/CIO– Positive experiences with collaboration– Coherence vs. Christmas ornaments– Stability- personnel, regulation,

resources

Building institutional capacity for cycles of internal accountability

Assess

Reform

A Cycle ofContinuous Improvement

ofStudent Learning Outcomes

Ability to respondto external

accountability requirements

Well developed systemof internal accountability

Use of Matrices

• Used to identify where each SLO is acquired —introduced, emphasized, reinforced, measured

• Records cyclical nature of learning- student is exposed to a concept, gains practice, achieves mastery

• Can connect individual course learning outcomes to institutional goals

Outcomes Course A

Course B

Course C

Course D

Course E

I E

I E

I R R R

Program Audit/ Curriculum Audit Grid

CONCERNS • Matrices/grids/audits identify input but not evidence of student learning outcome. • It is important to add where evidence will be gathered. Which course will have final responsibility? Where would improvements be located?

Anticipating Barriers for SLOAC

• Have faculty been involved in designing each aspect of SLOAC?

• How similar is SLOAC from what is currently being practiced?

• Is the assessment process respected?• Can faculty begin small and move to

larger efforts?• Is the initial plan simple?• Does faculty believe SLOAC has

advantages over the status quo?• Are visuals readily apparent?

Resource Current Necessary Change(redirect/ new/

source?)

ACTIVITY: BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY

ACTIVITY: NEXT STEPS

• How will you share this information with the rest of your campus?

• What steps will you follow? • Do a timeline.• Where can CCCCO, Region, or

HEERG help?

CCCCO Region HEERG

How can we help?

Speaking Truth

to Power