(added June.23.2006)
Overview of Cabrillo College's SLO Assessment Plan
Cabrillo has
centered its assessment activities around our core belief that the entire
campus contributes to student learning. We embrace the notion that it
“takes a village” to help students master our four college core competencies
and the student learning outcomes of our every course, program and degree.
Some areas of the campus directly assist students in mastering learning
while others indirectly aid them by creating the conditions where learning
can occur.
Cabrillo’s SLO Assessment
Plan divides the college into five sectors:
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Transfer and Basic Skill
Programs
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Occupational Programs
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Student Services
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Library
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Administrative Services.
Each of those sectors has
created a self-reflective assessment process that is embedded in the campus’
on-going rotating cycle of Instructional Planning and/or Departmental
Review.
As departments proceed
through the Instructional Planning or Departmental Review process, their
assessment results become the foundation for planning, evaluation and
budgetary requests. These results and the plans for improvement that arise
from them are evaluated within the sector as part of the regular
Departmental Review or Instructional Planning process and, if appropriate,
are sent on to other campus governing committees.
At the center of Cabrillo’s
SLO Assessment Plan is the SLO Assessment Review Committee. This
campus-wide committee, composed of faculty, administrators, staff and
students, receives the assessment results portion of every department’s
Instructional Plan or Departmental Review. ARC provides the wide-angle lens
for the college’s assessment process, scrutinizing the results for issues of
overall concern. If any are perceived, a college-wide dialogue process is
initiated and facilitated by the committee.
At the same time that ARC
receives assessment information, it is also charged with disseminating it.
The committee reflects on the year’s assessment results and writes a report
about them that is sent to the Governing Board, the Master Planning
Committee, the College Planning Council, the Faculty Senate, the Student
Senate and the faculty and staff unions. Those groups use the report to
provide evidence for and to initiate overall change and improvement of the
college. As the campus communicator about assessment, ARC also archives
all the reports it receives and the report it writes for accreditation.
The Learning Outcomes
Assessment Coordinator chairs the SLO Assessment Review Committee. Her
primary charge is to offer assistance with assessment planning, activities
and training to any department on campus. She also chairs the subcommittee
on Student Learning Outcomes of the college Curriculum Committee which
reviews the SLOs written for course outlines. She writes a yearly report
about her activities that is presented to the Vice President of Instruction
and posted on this web site.
For
more details about each aspect of Cabrillo’s Assessment Plan, click on the
links below:.
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