Course Assessment Submission

Technical Review Form

Course Name and Number:Music 205

Course Title: Music

Reviewed By: Adam H. Littig, Chris Bonvenuto, Vivian Mun, Outcomes Assessment Committee Date: April 9, 2014

  1. Student Learning Outcome(s) Assessed: Student will be able to voice chords and analyze key centers in mixed tonalities. Student will construct all commercial scales and employ substitute chords.

SLOs match the ones approved on ECD.

  1. Description of Assessment Method

The assessment method is clearly described and contains detailed information about the tools used and how the data was analyzed (e.g., student activity, rubric elements, etc.).

Yes No Comments:

Student Activity - Written Assignment

Rubric attached to report

Description of student activity needs to be more detailed. What did they actually write about? It is not clear as how the 2nd SLO is being evaluated.

  1. Description of Sampling Methodology
  2. Course Sections – Report clearly states how many sections of this course were offered and assessed. If there were more than one section offered, report clearly states if the sections were offered in the morning /afternoon /evening/ online and how these sections represent the diversity of students represented in the course.

Yes No Comments:1 section - evening

  1. Faculty – Report clearly states how many faculty (part-time and full-time) taught this course and how many faculty participated in the SLO assessment process.

Yes No Comments:1 FT faculty

  1. Students – Report clearly states how many students in total were enrolled and how many students were assessed?

Yes No Comments:16 students enrolled and assessed

  1. Sampling (If this course offered more than one section, at least 1/3 of the total # of students must be assessed) – Clear description of how the sampling process was conducted.

Yes No Comments: N/A

  1. Collaborative Review

Document clearly describes how inter-rater reliability was achieved.

Yes No Not applicable Comments:

V. Assessment Results

The relevant findings are reported according to the criteria set by the assessment tool. The data analyzed can be accurately used to measure the course outcome assessed.

Yes No Comments: Results reported by rubric category

VI. How Results were Used for Course/Program Improvement

  1. A clear plan is presented for the improvement of teaching, learning or institutional effectiveness based on the data assessed.

Yes No Comments: Improvement plan would be more clear if it were tied to the assessment results.

  1. Additional resources to implement the improvement plan are listed.

Yes No Comments: none cited

  1. A clear explanation of how the assessment findings contribute to the achievement of the Program SLO’s is included.

Yes No Comments: Unclear identification of PSLOs

  1. The plan includes how results will be shared with others in the discipline/area.

Yes No Comments: How will results be shared? At a meeting? Email?

VII. Comparison to last SLOAC Cycle Results (if course assessed more than once)

  1. The previous SLOAC cycle’s improvement plan is included in the report from.

Yes No Comments:

  1. A clear description of how changes were implemented from the previous SLOAC cycle’s improvement plan is included.

Yes No Comments:

  1. A clear description of how the results from this SLOAC cycle were similar to or different from the results from the previous cycle is included.

Yes No Comments:

Additional Comments: For future reports, please use the most updated version of SLO reports on: