Reflect... What are some of your concerns about student learning in your program or classroom?

Everything You Wanted to Know about Writing an Assessment with (or without) Nuventive Improve” Presented by Amy Leonard

Reflect... What are some of your concerns about Nuventive Improve?

Terminology SLO = Student Learning Outcome PLO = Program Level Outcome SSLO = Student Services Learning Outcome ILO = Institutional Learning Outcome

At What Levels Do We Assess? Lesson/ unit of study = SLO Course = SLO Program = PLO Occupational certificate Major Department/ Division Associate degree (A.A./A.S./A.A.S) Institutional = ILO

Basics Need one SLO assessment for each SLO on a course during the 5-years between curriculum updates Part-Timers are REQUIRED to have SLOs on their syllabi Part-timers ONLY have to do SLO assessment if asked to by your SLO rep/Chair/Dean

Ideally Ideally, complete SLO assessments yearly for your courses as a department Ideally, all faculty have SLOs on their syllabi Ideally, consider a quarterly or yearly survey of your students if you are a program Ideally, have SLOs in your Canvas & connect assessments to the assignments

What are Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)? “Robust” student learning outcomes incorporate behavioral objective- what a student should know, value and be able to demonstrate/ perform conditions under which performance will be assessed (simulation, lab, portfolio, writing task) Criteria/ performance standards/ primary traits for assessing student performance Rubric for scoring student performance

Course Objectives vs SLOs Course objectives versus student learning outcomes: Generally, a course objective states what student will demonstrate, represent or produce at end of course. SLO Generally, how they learn it with a clear skill/project to assess

Why Do We Assess SLOs 1. The college is required to do it by the ACCJCC accreditation team 2. It is nice to know what is working the class and other classes 3. It offers a chance to make funding requests 4. It offers a chance to improve your curriculum or the department’s curriculum

Steps of SLOs Step 1: Write an SLO (Done & all outlines) Step 2: Assess an SLO Step 3: Reflect on the SLO assessment and what equipment/funding would make students more successful Step 4: Write it up Step 5: Ensure it gets on Nuventive Improve

Once we’ve written an SLO, what’s next? Writing an SLO was only the first step in the process The repeated steps include assessing the SLO, analyzing the data, and reflecting on the findings to suggest improvements

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Reflect... How could you and your program solve your concerns about student learning through SLOs and assessing SLOs? What other questions do you have?

Ways for You to Conduct Assessments 1. Fill out a SLO report for an SLOs in your course and send it to the SLO Rep for your division/dept 2. Fill out an SLO report form and load it on to TracDat if you have access 3. Contact your dept. chair and ask to form an SLO team or be a part of a team

Hands on Help If you have an SLO that you want to write, I can help you get started If you would like to turn in an SLO I can help you If you want help with tracdat and you have an account, I can walk you through it