General Education

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General Education

• Joyce Walsh-Portillo
• Outcomes Assessments Update
• Faculty Senate
• September 17, 2009

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Response to 3.5.1

• Therefore the Committee recommends that the
  institution document and demonstrate the
  assessment of General Education learning
  outcomes, the analysis of data, and determine to
  what extent that graduates have attained the
  competencies.

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Team Members General Education Areas 1-5

• Pat Ellingham
• Deb Hefferin
• David Hennessy
• Jason Hainsworth
• Todd Bernhardt
• Winston Thompson
• Nilo Marin
• Behnoush Memari
• Teresa Hodge
• Alan Lebowitz
• Joyce Walsh-Portillo

• In the role of support and mentoring
• Russ Adkins
• Irm Bocchino
• Dawn Broschard
• Steve Obenauf

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Creating the Bridge
Student Learning Outcomes
Competency
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General Education ProjectPilot course selection
2009-2010

• Select 20 (10/10) General Education courses which
  include a number of the fifteen competencies in
  their Course Descriptions.
• Choose courses that team members are teaching
• Aim for the courses that have high enrollment
  (ENC 1101, for example)
• Be inclusive select courses taught on all three
  main campuses

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Pilot project for Fall 2009

• Ten General Education courses selected
• ENC 1101, SPC 1608, LIT 2020, MUL 2010, PHI 2600,
  SYG 2000, CHM1040, BSC 1005L, MAC 1105, STA2023
• 10 sections college wide Approximately 65
  sections
• All campus representation
• Different delivery systems (online, blended and
  face to face) traditional and Honors courses
  considered
• Mostly FT faculty but some adjuncts were included
  when a FT was not available or able to
  participate

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Select
Refer to Gen Ed Matrix
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What is being used to assess SLOs?

• Examples, not limited to
• Embedded test items
• A written assignment that is assessed using a
  common rubric
• A speech which is assessed using a common rubric
  at different benchmarks during the course
• A concert review with designated points for each
  requirement

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Data collection and use

• Results of the assessments will be delivered to
  the Team member for that course/discipline
• All pilot sections are being stripped of
  identifying data (reference number, professor,
  campus, schedule)
• Aggregate data will be uploaded to a data base
  which is yet to be decided-may be EXCEL- and
  results will be processed by IR and returned to
  Team Member
• Observations and analysis will be carried out
  with professors involved in the pilots with
  forthcoming recommendations from the discipline
  faculty
• Results will be shared College-wide