Executive Summary After close review and analysis of our Psychology program’s CLOs and GELOs, we are satisfied with the level of student mastery, reported at 72-86%. With many of our students entering our courses we feel that the level of student mastery directly reflects our instructional efforts. While we are satisfied with the percentages, we continue to seek ways to assist our students succeed at even higher levels. We plan to continually evaluate and update CLOs on a course-by-course basis to ensure that the CLOs reflect the essential concepts student need to master to meet the GELOs. As part of this process, we will modify the assessment tools used to evaluate these CLOs ensure consistency across faculty and course assessment. In order to meet our goals of continued quality instruction and increased student success, it is necessary to receive additional department funding. The most important funding needed to support instruction is the hiring of new, well-trained full-time faculty. Many of our courses require specialty training and research backgrounds and our continued success in meeting CLOs and GELOs depends on support from administration to support the hiring of new full-time faculty. Additionally, in the ever-changing field of psychology, it is critical to stay current with research and new techniques of instruction. Resources to enable faculty to attend conferences and acquire fresh ideas about instruction are needed to maintain the current high level of quality. Faculty Included in the Preparation and Sharing of this Report: Shelly Fichtenkort Becky Ganes Bobby Hutchison Lee Kooler
Executive Summary After close review and analysis of our Psychology program’s CLOs and GELOs, we are satisfied with the level of student mastery, reported at 72-86%. With many of our students entering our courses we feel that the level of student mastery directly reflects our instructional efforts. While we are satisfied with the percentages, we continue to seek ways to assist our students succeed at even higher levels. We plan to continually evaluate and update CLOs on a course-by-course basis to ensure that the CLOs reflect the essential concepts student need to master to meet the GELOs. As part of this process, we will modify the assessment tools used to evaluate these CLOs ensure consistency across faculty and course assessment. In order to meet our goals of continued quality instruction and increased student success, it is necessary to receive additional department funding. The most important funding needed to support instruction is the hiring of new, well-trained full-time faculty. Many of our courses require specialty training and research backgrounds and our continued success in meeting CLOs and GELOs depends on support from administration to support the hiring of new full-time faculty. Additionally, in the ever-changing field of psychology, it is critical to stay current with research and new techniques of instruction. Resources to enable faculty to attend conferences and acquire fresh ideas about instruction are needed to maintain the current high level of quality. Faculty Included in the Preparation and Sharing of this Report: Shelly Fichtenkort Becky Ganes Bobby Hutchison Lee Kooler
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