Assessing Student Assessing Student Learning: Learning: What Kapi‘olani Community College What Kapi‘olani Community College is Doing is Doing Kristine Korey-Smith, Assessment Coordinator Kristine Korey-Smith, Assessment Coordinator Louise Pagotto, Interim Vice Chancellor for Louise Pagotto, Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Academic Affairs 2009 Strengthening Student Success Conference San Francisco October 8, 2009 1:30-2:45
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Tied to tactical planning and allocation of resources
What needs to be documented in a What needs to be documented in a report on Student Learning report on Student Learning Outcomes Assessment?Outcomes Assessment?
Program Assessment ReportProgram Assessment Report
Program SLO(s)
Evidence of industry
validation
Assessment Strategy/
instrument
Results of Program
Assessment
Plan for Improvement
Small Group DiscussionSmall Group Discussion
• Who do you want looking at these reports in order to make the best informed decisions?
• How do you see using the assessment results?
Report OutReport Out
The Role of AdministrationThe Role of Administration
• Provide access to institutional research and training in data analysis
• Clarify benefits of assessment• Clarify responsibility for accountability• Support professional development• Provide access to technology support • Minimize complexity• Tolerate initial “messiness” & allow for faculty
autonomy• Communicate
Uses of Assessment ResultsUses of Assessment Results
• Assure stakeholders that students have attained programmatic SLOs
• Develop or rethink program learning outcomes and assessment
• Improve alignment of program SLOs with course SLOs and course SLOs with assessments/activities
• Develop or refine interventions to improve student learning and success
• Design needed professional development programs• Inform decision making, planning and budgeting,
• Reallocate time• Centralize coordination of data/report
management• Use data to improve programs, reallocate
resources and reinforce institutional priorities• Conduct a meta-assessment of the process
End Remarks – What We’ve End Remarks – What We’ve LearnedLearned
• Emphasize difference between compliance and improvement• Identify assessment support people• Don’t assess everything we do every year – have programs submit
assessment plans• Don’t do everything at once; start with one or two outcomes• Prioritize goals/outcomes• Be flexible• Use what we have already done• Borrow from other institutions and modify as needed• Allocate time for assessment – rethink how we use meeting times
QuestionsQuestions
ReferencesReferences
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