Guidelines
Assessment Plan:
Each Learning Community must have an assessment plan. Your assessment report should include the following:
1. A brief narrative about what happened in your Learning Community. Highlight your successes;
2. A brief overview of how you assessed your stated outcomes and what were those outcomes;
3. From your experiences this year, what changes would you make for next year;
4. A financial report will be requested at the end of the fiscal year and will be handed in separately from the Final Report.
1. A brief narrative about what happened in your Learning Community. Highlight your successes;
2. A brief overview of how you assessed your stated outcomes and what were those outcomes;
3. From your experiences this year, what changes would you make for next year;
4. A financial report will be requested at the end of the fiscal year and will be handed in separately from the Final Report.
List your specific LC outcomes, what experiences you have designed to meet the outcomes, and how you will assess the intended outcomes; add additional rows as necessary. The chart with the shaded area provides examples.
Each program is required to submit an assessment report as part of its annual report.
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Intended Learning Outcomes
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Specific LC Experiences designed to meet outcomes
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Assessment methodologies for intended outcomes
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Intended Learning Outcomes
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Specific LC Experiences designed to meet outcomes
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Assessment methodologies for intended outcomes
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Example #1: Collaborative interactions among students, faculty & staff will increase.
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Clustered courses
Peer mentors
Faculty dinners
Team-building exercises
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Learning community survey
Peer mentor interviews, Faculty interviews
Focus groups
Student feedback forms/journals
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Example #2: Students will demonstrate increased professional skills.
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College-based orientation seminar
Disciplinary or general education course
linked with an English course
Service learning project connected to
linked classes
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Instructor evaluations of student performance
Focus groups
Video-tapes
Feedback from related professionals
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Example #3: Students will use critical thinking and problem solving skills in applied situations.
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Linked course assignments
Analysis of case studies
Field trips, Attend related campus events
Service learning projects
Study groups
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Instructor evaluations of projects and communication assignments
Student journals
Focus groups
Observations of students
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