Program Review Training

2015Petr Lensky and Amanda Corcoran

OUTCOMES for this training

Understand ARC’s planning process and where Program Review fits in

Understand how to use the online Program Review system and the required components within the system

Understand the program review data provided

Understand the timeline for completion of program review

Know when drop in sessions are scheduled though out the year

Have all your questions answered

Institutional Planning at ARC

ARC Mission Statement

Mission Statement◦Describe how your program has supported the

College's mission.

Outcomes and Recommendations from Previous Program Reviews

Recommendation from Previous Program Review Report◦Were the previous program review outcomes

addressing strengths achieved?

◦Were the previous program review outcomes addressing challenges achieved?

◦Were the previous program review outcomes addressing SLOs achieved?

Analysis of Data: A 6 Year Reflection

Student Enrollments and Characteristics◦Using the course enrollment and demographic

profile. Are there any data that are significantly different than the college?

◦Does the difference affect the program, planning and/or student success?

◦What, if anything, can you do to address these differences?

Student Learning Reflection

Curriculum◦Have all course and program outlines been updated

in the last 6 years?

◦How well do your courses support the program student learning outcomes?

◦Are students able to complete the courses required for your degrees and/or program in a "normal" timeframe?

◦Address any major changes or additions in curriculum in the past 6 years.

Student Learning Reflection

Student Success ◦Course sequence and scheduling: How

effective are course scheduling, offerings, and sequence in students completing their educational goal?

◦How successful are students in your courses?

Student Learning Reflection

SLO Assessment – Instruction

◦Please provide a summary of your discipline's SLO Assessment results over the last 6 years.

◦Based on your discipline's SLO assessment work, what improvements to student learning have occurred?

◦List the discipline’s plans for continuous quality improvement for student learning outcomes.

Student Learning Reflection

SLO Assessment – Student Services

◦ How does your program routinely utilize its student learning outcomes results for program planning/improvements?

◦ In what ways have your program improvements impacted student learning?

◦ What needs improvements and why?

◦ List the discipline’s plans for continuous quality improvement for student learning outcomes.

Information Literacy

How do your courses help students learn to recognize when information is needed and give students the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the needed information?

How are information literacy skills evaluated in your program?

Distance Education

Instruction

◦What percentages of your student population enroll in DE courses?

◦How successful are students who enroll in DE courses?

◦Compare and contrast success rates for Distance Education sections of the same course offered in face-to-face sections. How does a distance education course differ from face-to-face?

Distance Education

Student Services

◦ Describe any online or Distance Ed service your program offers?

◦ How effective are your current methods/procedures? What is working well and what needs improvement?

◦ In hindsight, did you learn that there were data needs (new

and/or improved) which could have better assisted you with this report?

◦ Please describe what your data needs would be for your next program review cycle and how you plan to obtain the data?

Vocational Programs Only

How well does your department prepare students for a job? What are the indicators?

Does your program provide any assistance with job placement?

What evidence exists that program completers (or near completers) are successful on the job?

Conclusions and Recommendations

What are the strengths of the program?

List, as a set of outcomes, your plans for maintaining the quality of the program. (this goes into your EMP)

What are the challenges of the program?

List, as a set of outcomes, your plans for addressing these challenges. (This goes into your EMP.)

Timeline

*Days/times not confirmed