Institute participants designed a wide-variety of projects to explore and incorporate learner outcomes into one course. Projects ranged from looking at how one particular classroom activity, writing collaborative papers, helped students master the learner outcomes of the course, to designing a checklist of culinary arts skills that were evaluated on a weekly basis and checked-off as students demonstrated competency in each. Research-based projects included studying if increased political knowledge resulted in a greater sense of political efficacy for students in Political Science 1, to administering pre and post-tests in an Introduction to Logic course to see if students demonstrated increased skills. One math instructor studied the final exams in all sections of Intermediate Algebra to see what the different teachers stressed in the course. Whatever the project, each instructor also examined the success and retention rates that resulted from using this new teaching model.

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Marcy Alancraig, a member of the English Department who has taught at Cabrillo since 1991, directed the project. She was joined by the following faculty members:

• Rebecca Arnesty, Dental Hygiene and Health Sciences Department, Faculty Senate President
  • Applying A Learner Outcome Model to Health Science: Human Sexuality/Health Science 15
• Debora Bone, Nursing Department
  • Learner Outcomes Final Project: Critical Thinking for Nurses
• Rosemary Brogan, History Department and Marcy Alancraig, English Department
  • Researching Interdisciplinary Linkages Between Classes: History 14- Women in American and English 1A-Writing about Women in America
• Nancy A. Brown, Philosophy Department
  • Learning Outcomes for Introduction to Logic: Assesment Plan Outcomes
  • Philosophy 4 - Introduction to Philosophy
• Eric Carter, Culinary Arts Program
• Learner Outcomes for Culinary Arts
• Sally Dauphin, Math Department
  • Defining Learner Outcomes for Intermediate Algebra, Math 152
• David Douglass, Psychology Department
  • Searching for Learner Footprints in Psych 1A
• Ofelia Garcia, Early Childhood Education Department
  • Applying Outcome-Based Educational Approached to ECE 51- Principles Of Working with Young Children
• Richard Griffiths, Academic Specialist, Disabled Student Programs and Services
  • Learner Outcomes Project Report - LS 264 Study Skills
• Steve Hodges, Computer Science Department
• Sue Holt, Economics and Mathematics Departments
• Charlotte Jensen, Medical Assistant Program
  • Learner Outcomes for MA 172, Medical Secretarial Procedures
• Joanne McLeod, Computer Applications and Office Systems Department
  • Learner Outcomes Project: Photoshop Techniques
• Rory O'Brien, Political Science Department
  • Knowledge and Power: An Assessment Project on Political Science 1 Introduction to American Government
• David Sullivan, English Department
  • Looking Glass Logic: Using Learner Outcomes Assessment to Evaluate Gray Area Critical Thinking in English 2
• Harry Ungar, Chemistry

In addition, Mary Cardenas, Division Chair of Human Arts and Sciences, Rachel Mayo, Director of the Watsonville Center and Topsy Smalley, Librarian, attended the Summer Institute and developed projects. Deans and other Division Chairs also attended.

• Topsy Smalley, Librarian
  • Information Literacy Instruction Supported by Class Sessions in the Library: Assessing Learner Outcomes in a Lower Division Anthropology Class