What in depth thinking have faculty, Some depts More than others See dept meeting minutes and as individuals and collectively, email discussions; see TracDat engaged in about how well students are learning in their courses and programs? What measures have they, again as Every dept and program has See dept meeting minutes and gap individuals and collectively, created or developed SLOs and PLOs. There email discussions; see TracDat is variance between department selected to measure that learning? as to individual v group development. DE courses are assessed with the See dept meeting minutes and No gap Are these measures different for same criteria as on the ground email discussions; see TracDat DE/CE counterparts. students? What discussions have faculty had Anecdotal rather than formal; See dept meeting minutes and gap about how to improve learning? What currently fulfilling the letter. email discussions plans have been made? Not yet at the spirit in all departments. What changes have faculty made in Some depts farther along with See psychology, counseling, ask gap teaching methodologies to improve implementing change for other examples learning? What changes in course content or Some depts farther along with Counseling has increased gap sequencing have resulted from implementing change orientations; Math has analyses of how well students are used assessment to restructure mastering course content in both developmental math and DE/CE and face- to-face instructional proportion of course offerings. formats? What methods has the institution Implementation of TracDat; See Trac Dat gap developed to evaluate effectiveness meeting with deans; in the past, in producing student learning meeting with Institutional outcomes? Are these methods Researcher; currently less yielding meaningful and useful monitoring of SLO data results? collection has resulted in less reporting of data How does the institution use analysis Until TracDdat, SLOS were more gap of the results of assessment to closely monitored through the improve student learning outcomes? program planning process. Now
What in depth thinking have faculty, as individuals and collectively, engaged in about how well students are learning in their courses and programs? Some depts More than others See dept meeting minutes and email discussions; see TracDat What measures have they, again as individuals and collectively, created or selected to measure that learning? Every dept and program has developed SLOs and PLOs. There is variance between department as to individual v group development. See dept meeting minutes and email discussions; see TracDat gap Are these measures different for DE/CE students? DE courses are assessed with the same criteria as on the ground counterparts. See dept meeting minutes and email discussions; see TracDat No gap What discussions have faculty had about how to improve learning? What plans have been made? Anecdotal rather than formal; currently fulfilling the letter. Not yet at the spirit in all departments. See dept meeting minutes and email discussions gap What changes have faculty made in teaching methodologies to improve learning? Some depts farther along with implementing change See psychology, counseling, ask for other examples gap What changes in course content or sequencing have resulted from analyses of how well students are mastering course content in both DE/CE and face- to-face instructional formats? Some depts farther along with implementing change Counseling has increased orientations; Math has used assessment to restructure developmental math and proportion of course offerings. gap What methods has the institution developed to evaluate effectiveness in producing student learning outcomes? Are these methods yielding meaningful and useful results? Implementation of TracDat; meeting with deans; in the past, meeting with Institutional Researcher; currently less monitoring of SLO data collection has resulted in less reporting of data See Trac Dat gap How does the institution use analysis of the results of assessment to improve student learning outcomes? Until TracDdat, SLOS were more closely monitored through the program planning process. Now gap
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