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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Assess
Reflect
Identify

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

15. 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

17. 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