Student Learning Outcomes Robin Lightner, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Director Learning & Teaching Center Raymond Walters College [email protected].

Student Learning Student Learning OutcomesOutcomes

Robin Lightner, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology

Director Learning & Teaching CenterRaymond Walters College

[email protected]

Our DayOur Day• Ice breaker and Introduction• Readiness Assessment Activity• Course Expectations (1 & 2)• Break• 5 Years from Now (3)• Goals (4) • Lunch• Outcomes (5)• Break• Assessment (6)• Activities and Supports (7)

Why are we here?Why are we here?1. Semester Conversion

2. Improve Teaching

SLOs SLOs Student Learning Outcomes Student Learning Outcomes

Describes the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes that students have attained at the end of the experience.

• What students can do• Specific• Measurable• Logically tied to products

Readiness Assessment Readiness Assessment ProcedureProcedure

1. Take the quiz individually2. Take the quiz as a group

1. Find Consensus2. Scratch the answer3. 1 point on first try, .5 on second, .25 on

third.

3. For using RAPs in class: 1. Average individual and group score2. Hard, debatable questions3. Create diverse groups

Reflection activityReflection activityWhat do you remember

from your undergraduate courses in your major?

What do you remember from your undergraduate courses outside of your major?

List as many things as you can in 5-minutes.

Module 1Module 1Establishing Expectations

Technology Content Skills

Emails that aren’t text msgs = ?

Module 2Module 2

Write a one page essay defining the discipline. Present a topic in the discipline that interests you. List one article you found using Google and one article you found using the library database that

might be useful in finding out more about this topic. Include a Works Cited page that cites the two

articles. Email the article to the instructor by Friday of the first week of class.

Send email with attachment.

Post on Bb discussion board. Find articles on library database. Find

articles on Google.

Use grammatically accurate EnglishWrite coherent

paragraphsRead popular

informational articlesCite sources in MLA

format

Content Skills

Assessing Expectations: Example

Module 3Module 3Five Years from Now...

SkillsContentAttitudes

Module 4Module 4Goals

Lower-level skills

Content-based

Coverage important

Vague

Course will accomplish

Outcomes

Higher-level skills

Student Performance

What the student

will DO

Specific to your course

Intro Psych: Old Goals• To provide students with the historical,

methodological and biological foundations of the field of psych.

• To identify psych. factors operating in everyday life

• To clarify “common sense” ideas about behavior

• To assist in applying the principles of psych. to enhance the quality of their lives

• To present this material in the approved Gen. Ed. format, using critical thinking, writing across the curriculum, oral communication, cultural diversity.

Learning OutcomesLearning Outcomes1. Evaluate and suggest improvements to the

Children’s Museum using theories and concepts of Developmental Psychology

2. Given news stories about psych topics, identify the study design and limitations

3. Suggest ways for students to improve studying based on cognitive studies and principles

4. Trace the neural path of a stimulus from the environment to a motor reaction to it.

More examples More examples Upon successful completion of this course, students

should be able to:

1.Compare and contrast the stages of corrections' history, goals, and philosophies

2.Defend the importance of using evidence-based corrections in developing correctional policy

3.Summarize and rank the most important issues facing correctional staff and populations

4.Summarize the debates concerning correctional theories

** See yellow sheet—find 2 good and 2 less good examples.

Module 5Module 5Establishing Student Learning Outcomes

Write Them!Consult Modules 3 &4

Use List of VerbsAvoid “understand, appreciate, value”

Start statements with verbsLimit your list to 3-5

Module 6Module 6

Use Flip chartsMap outcomes onto current assignments

Add or subtract as needed

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes

Module 7Module 7

Options for Activities handout“Activities that worked for me”

Use Flip chartsAdd activities to enable students to

complete the assessments

Student Learning Outcomes and Activities

Moving ForwardMoving Forward• Use Calendar to plan what you need to do for semester conversion project?

• What do you still need to know?