January 22, 2016 Meeting
Agenda
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee
January 22, 2016
Cafe Conference Room
8:10 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Agenda
1. SLO Mapping/Alignment Exercise – Brief Overview
2. SLO Board Policy – Second Reading – Academic Senate
3. SLO Policy – Administrative Procedures – Ideas
Minutes
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee
Minutes
January 22, 2016
Café Conference Room
8:10 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Present: Michelle Beasley, Paul Blake, Geoffrey Dyer, Vicki Jacobi, Abbas Jarrahian, Michael Jiles, James May, Tina Mendoza, Debora Rodenhauser and Brandy Young
Approval of Minutes from November 23 and 30, 2015
The minutes from November 23rd and 30th were approved. Brandy will check the sign
in sheet for Mike Jiles’ attendance on November 24rd.
SLO Mapping/Alignment Exercise – Brief Overview
During inservice Program Leads from various divisions met in the T-14 classroom to
map their course SLOs to PSLOs in eLumen. Not all divisions participated, but Vicki
and Brandy will contact those Program Leads to arrange a meeting time to assist those
individuals with the completion of their mapping. Vicki gave a demonstration on the
difference between the “Split-Level” and “Hierarchical” models that are available
in eLumen. Our version of eLumen is set up to use the “Split-Level” model which allows
for CSLOs to be directly mapped to PSLOs and ISLOs as opposed to mapping CSLOs to
PSLOs and PSLOs to ISLOs. It was stated that either model does not have an impact
on reporting. The mapping exercise was successful in helping faculty to identify if
a course and course SLO was supportive of the program. The completion of all mapping
within programs will help to expedite the creation of administrative procedures to
support the new SLO Policy.
SLO Board Policy – Second Reading – Academic Senate
The new SLO Board Policy was approved by the Academic Senate at their January 14th
inservice meeting. The Policy will be reviewed at the next Board of Trustees meeting
in February.
SLO Policy – Administrative Procedures – Ideas
Preliminary discussion regarding the formation of the administrative procedures to
support the SLO Policy was as follows:
It was recommended that the focus should be on answering the questions most faculty
have: 1. How many SLOs should each course have? 2. How often should those SLOs be
assessed?
It was recommended and agreed upon by the committee to research other schools to see
how they are using procedures. It is suggested to keep in mind the size of the school
and the resources they have.
The subject will be placed on the Academic Senate February agenda. It was suggested
that the initial discussion begin and SLO/ASC inform faculty of their intent and direction.
Faculty will be asked for their input as well. The subject will continue to be an
item on the agenda to provide updates.
It was suggested that SLO/ASC pro-actively coordinate with the Professional Development
Committee in arranging time to discuss SLOs during an SLO Day. This time would need
to be at least 7 ½ hours in order to possibly finish assessing SLOs, have a speaker,
and discuss the status of SLOs in general. This time could also be used to discuss
and finish program reviews.
Next Meeting: Friday, February 19, 2016 – 8:10 to 9:00 a.m. in the Café Conference Room
Respectfully submitted by Brandy Young