1. Thinking Critically

2. Mission Statement Course Level SLOs and Assessments Program Level SLOs and Assessment s Assessing ICCs

3. The faculty will develop ideas for direct means of assessment of our Institutional Core Competency - Critical Thinking.

4. 5) Critical Thinking a Analyze arguments b Create and test models c Solve problems d Evaluate ideas e Estimate and predict outcomes based on underlying principles relative to a particular discipline f Interpret literary, artistic, and scientific works g Utilize symbols and symbolic systems, h Apply qualitative and quantitative analysis i Verify the reasonableness of conclusions j Explore alternatives k Empathize with differing perspectives l Adapt ideas and methods to new situations

5. Proficiency (in CT) Thinking is exemplary, skilled, marked by excellence in clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logicality, and fairness

6. Emerging (in CT) Thinking is unskilled and insufficient, marked by imprecision, lack of clarity, superficiality, illogicality, and inaccuracy, and unfairness

7. Next Step = Campus Wide Assessment of Critical Thinking + Your Assignment

8. ACCJC Recommendation 3 To meet the standard at the level of proficiency by 2012, the team recommends that the college accelerate the implementation of the SLO, SSLO and AUP assessment cycles at the course, program and institutional levels. “Many hands make lighter work!”

9. The Ask for today/this quarter: Complete a SLOAC for one of the courses you are teaching this quarter Complete a PLOAC for one of your programs Enter by July 15, 2012 “Many hands make lighter work!”