COURSE SLO ASSESSMENT REPORT, SAC Math Department: Course: Math N06 Faculty Member: Semester/Year: Spring 2013 Semester/Year: Institutional SLO Course SLO Method of Outcomes Plan for Reassessment Outcome Plan for Assessment Implementation Implementation Thinking and Reasoning Students will be Some students About 67% of the Continue to provide Students will able to use were given a ten students who took opportunity for identify and Arithmetic question quiz the quiz students to develop analyze real or operations to assessing their demonstrated their skills through potential correctly solve ability to perform minimal guided practice and and basic word the operations of competency to cooperative learning “problems” develop, evaluate, problems by the multiplication and perform the exercises. and test possible end of the division on required operations solutions using semester. fractions and to with fractions. Do a project on creative thinking, select the division where there analysis and appropriate In general, the are different types synthesis, operation for addition and the of division concepts quantitative solving application multiplication and situations and reasoning, and/or problems. Other problems were easy have students transfer of students were given for the students to physically divide knowledge and a test with word recognize and to things. Then follow skills to a new problems on it; 1 work correctly. up with a few context as addition problem, 1 Division was worksheets with appropriate. division problem, harder for the similar division Quantitative and 1 students. While problems for them Reasoning multiplication most students still to do. Students will use problem. recognized that the college-level problem was a mathematical division problem, a concepts and few thought it was methods to multiplication, and understand, analyze one thought it was and explain issues addition. Also, one in quantitative person did the terms. division incorrectly.
COURSE SLO ASSESSMENT REPORT, SAC Department: Math Course: Math N06 Faculty Member: Semester/Year: Spring 2013 Semester/Year: Institutional SLO Course SLO Method of Assessment Outcomes Plan for Implementation Reassessment Outcome Plan for Implementation Thinking and Reasoning Students will identify and analyze real or potential “problems” and develop, evaluate, and test possible solutions using creative thinking, analysis and synthesis, quantitative reasoning, and/or transfer of knowledge and skills to a new context as appropriate. Quantitative Reasoning Students will use college-level mathematical concepts and methods to understand, analyze and explain issues in quantitative terms. Students will be able to use Arithmetic operations to correctly solve basic word problems by the end of the semester. Some students were given a ten question quiz assessing their ability to perform the operations of multiplication and division on fractions and to select the appropriate operation for solving application problems. Other students were given a test with word problems on it; 1 addition problem, 1 division problem, and 1 multiplication problem. About 67% of the students who took the quiz demonstrated minimal competency to perform the required operations with fractions. In general, the addition and the multiplication problems were easy for the students to recognize and to work correctly. Division was harder for the students. While most students still recognized that the problem was a division problem, a few thought it was multiplication, and one thought it was addition. Also, one person did the division incorrectly. Continue to provide opportunity for students to develop their skills through guided practice and cooperative learning exercises. Do a project on division where there are different types of division concepts and situations and have students physically divide things. Then follow up with a few worksheets with similar division problems for them to do.
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