INSTITUTIONAL EXCELLENCE THROUGH INNOVATION Fall 2015 Opening Day Aug 21, 2015 Brittany Applen Alexandra Dimakos Rebecca Eikey Andy McCutcheon Paul Wickline Committee for Assessing Student Learning ePortfolio Workgroup

Overview ILOs: Past, Present, Future Signature Assignments: Why They Rock! ePortolios: Why They Also Rock!

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Meeting all ILOs

New Accreditation Standard 1.B.6

Uniformity of Signature Assignments

ePorfolio Mandate

Where do these initiatives come from?

Overview of ILO Development Development of Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) Based on IGETC/CSUGE ILO Assessment ILO Report & FLEX Feedback Move towards adopting AAC&U’s LEAP Outcomes ILOs Opening Day 14 ILOs Based on AA/AS + CTE + Basic Skills

“A collaboration between educators, students, policymakers, and business and community leaders.”

Goal: Raise Quality of Education Large-scale collaboration Transformational change Educational alignment California State University system (2011)

How is the Workplace Changing? “Human work will increasingly shift toward two kinds of tasks: solving problems for which standard operating procedures do not currently exist, and working with new information—acquiring it, making sense of it, communicating it to others….” Frank Levy and Richard Murnane, “Dancing with Robots” (2013) Learning Agility

The LEAP Initiative Promotes Essential Learning Outcomes A Guiding Vision and National Benchmarks for College Learning and Liberal Education in the 21 st Century High Impact Practices Helping Students Achieve the Essential Learning Outcomes Authentic Assessments of Student Learning Probing Whether Students Can APPLY Their Learning – to Complex Problems and Real-World Challenges Seven Principles of Excellence, including Inclusiveness Diversity, Equity, Quality of Learning for All Groups of Students

Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Focused on engagement with big questions, enduring and contemporary Intellectual and Practical Skills Practiced extensively across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance Personal and Social Responsibility Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges Integrative and Applied Learning Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems Essential Learning Outcomes

COC Mission As an innovative institution of excellence, College of the Canyons offers an accessible, enriching education that provides students with essential academic skills and prepares students for transfer education, workforce-skills development, and the attainment of learning outcomes corresponding to their educational goals. To fulfill its mission, College of the Canyons embraces diversity, fosters technical competencies, supports the development of global responsibility, and engages students and the community in scholarly inquiry, creative partnerships, and the application of knowledge.

COC Mission As an innovative institution of excellence, College of the Canyons offers an accessible, enriching education that provides students with essential academic skills and prepares students for transfer education, workforce-skills development, and the attainment of learning outcomes corresponding to their educational goals. To fulfill its mission, College of the Canyons embraces diversity, fosters technical competencies, supports the development of global responsibility, and engages students and the community in scholarly inquiry, creative partnerships, and the application of knowledge.

COC Mission As an innovative institution of excellence, College of the Canyons offers an accessible, enriching education that provides students with essential academic skills and prepares students for transfer education, workforce-skills development, and the attainment of learning outcomes corresponding to their educational goals. To fulfill its mission, College of the Canyons embraces diversity, fosters technical competencies, supports the development of global responsibility, and engages students and the community in scholarly inquiry, creative partnerships, and the application of knowledge.

Overview of ILO Development Development of Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) Based on IGETC/CSUGE ILO Assessment ILO Report & FLEX Feedback Move towards adopting AAC&U’s LEAP Outcomes ILOs Opening Day 14 ILOs Based on AA/AS + CTE + Basic Skills

ILO Development Process College-wide Collaboration –Faculty, Staff, Student, Administrators –Committee work –Surveys (Spring/Fall) –Workshops

Outcomes Build Upon Each Other Proposed ILOs 1.Effective Communication 2.Critical Thinking 3.Collaboration 4.Information Literacy 5.Quantitative Literacy 6.Community Engagement & Global Responsibility 7.Creative & Innovative Thinking 8.Lifelong Learning Institutional Program, Degree, Certificate Course Outcomes

COC ILO Survey Results Responses Invited to Participate Response Rate Overall % Adjunct Faculty % Full-Time Faculty % College Planning Team 62227% Division Deans4757% Learning Resources6875% Student Services51631% In General - Average Response Rate for Surveys = 24.8%

COC ILO Survey Results Survey PromptResponse Familiar with proposed ILOs?44% = yes 56% = not Satisfaction with proposed ILOs?~70% = satisfied or very satisfied Agreement that ILOs reflect COC?~80% = agree or strongly agree Consider remaining categories?~20% = yes Areas missing in the ILOs?~15% = yes

Outcomes Build Upon Each Other Proposed ILOs 1.Effective Communication 2.Critical Thinking 3.Collaboration 4.Information Literacy 5.Quantitative Literacy 6.Community Engagement & Global Responsibility 7.Creative & Innovative Thinking 8.Lifelong Learning Institutional Program, Degree, Certificate Course Outcomes

What’s Next? Another survey More workshops –Definitions of ILOs –Rubric development College-wide consensus

QUESTIONS? Please write any questions on the colored notecards and pass in.

ACCJC Standard 1.B.6 “The institution disaggregates and analyzes learning outcomes and achievement for subpopulations of students. When the institution identifies performance gaps, it implements strategies, which may include allocation or reallocation of human, fiscal and other resources, to mitigate those gaps and evaluates the efficacy of those strategies.”

ACCJC Standard 1.B.6 Equity & Inclusive Excellence –Campus-wide discussion Define “subpopulations” of students Potential tool - MyCanyons

Signature Assignments

What Are Signature Assignments? An assignment that best displays the knowledge or skills essential to the learning outcomes of a course. Other coursework should build toward the completion of the course 'signature' assignment. Signature assignments have the potential to help us know whether student learning reflects “the ways of thinking and doing of disciplinary experts.” A generic task, problem, case, or project that can be tailored or contextualized in different disciplines or course contexts (can be collaboratively designed).

Examples of Signature Assignments Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Political science class: students analyze campaign finance data and write papers about recent elections in Utah. Quantitative reasoning class: students analyze arguments they’ve found on TV or the Internet for logical fallacies, making diagrams to help map the process.

Characteristics of Signature Assignments Course-embedded assessment Well aligned with Learning Outcomes Authentic in terms of process/content, “real world” application Include student reflection component Designed individually or collaboratively by faculty –Can follow a theme across curricular and co- curricular experiences

Why Signature Assignments Rock! They make learning more visible, both for students and instructors. They encourage student ownership of course and program work. They enhance student learning and foster an attitude of life-long learning.

Why Signature Assignments Rock! They chronicle the learning process and offer artifacts of rich qualitative data that help instructors measure their own effectiveness through more authentic assessment. They can be easily developed from existing assignments, especially ones that already possess some characteristics of Signature Assignments.

ePortfolios An electronic platform where students can complete assignments using multi-media An account on a platform (Digication or Pathbrite) A tool to highlight student success An excellent way for students to track their own progress

Why ePortfolios? Student Centered (Batson) –Students are stewards of their own learning –They own the space, it is their information, and they control who can view it –“As the transcript and the diploma lose credibility with employers, the eportfolio gains credibility. It is a fuller and more palpable picture of what learners can do.”

Why ePortfolios? Faculty Benefit –Diversity –Students becoming more creative –Deeper critical thinking –Creates a stronger connection between the students and the world around them

How can you implement ePortfolios in your courses? ePortfolios are a tool, but they must be used appropriately in order to be effective Application in the classroom: –Class discussions –Grading –Class participation –Artifacts –Assignments

Is a course redesign required? This is up to you, it can happen on a large scale or a small scale You can redesign your entire course or you can require students use the ePortfolio platform for a single assignment or project Assign credit: 5% of grade? 30% of grade? Incorporate into HW schedule and syllabus (Provides students with a sense of the importance of this tool)

The Future The Institutional Aspect of ePortfolios –We are excited about the implications this has for our student’s growth within our classes and throughout their experience at our college –This is an excellent tool for assessment –Signature Assignments: The importance for each course and the importance on an institutional level

ANY QUESTIONS?

Breakout Sessions 10:45 – 11:30 ePortfolios Session with Brittany Applen & Alexa Dimakos –Hasley 204 Signature Assignments with Rebecca Eikey & Andy McCutcheon –Hasley 206 WebEx Session with Regina Blasberg –Video conferencing –TBA