MSJC/SJC Campus English Department SLO Report

September 7, 2010

Course / Date / SLO (DLO) / Assessment / Result / Curricular Adjustment/Data Driven Decision
62 / 2007 /
  • Demonstrate college level writing skills (1)
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  • Sample paragraph
  • Table read essays per rubric
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  • Generated departmental discussion and reinforced course objectives detailed in outline of record.
/ NA
98 / Jan. 2008 /
  • Demonstrate college level writing skills (1)
  • Recognize writing as a process (2)
/
  • Table read essays per rubric
  • Selected exemplary essays
/
  • Select 8 essays to be used as exemplars for class norming.
/ Introduced class norming activity using rubrics and exemplars
101 / May
2009 /
  • Cite sources according to MLA guidelines (3)
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  • Table read Works Cited pages
  • Tabulated excellent, adequate, and unsatisfactory scores
/
  • Generated departmental discussion on scoring
  • Resolved to supplement instruction
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  • Best practice lesson and quiz shared with department
  • List of on-line resources printed and made available to students

103 / June
2010 /
  • Present a clear, reasoned, well-supported, clearly organized argument (1)
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  • Evaluated strengths and weakness of in-class writing
  • Table read finals per rubric
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  • Resolved to strengthen instruction in counterargument and follow up the next semester
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  • Faculty shared best practices
  • Faculty review resources available in text and ancillary materials

103 / Dec.
2010 /
  • Present a clear, reasoned, well-supported, clearly organized argument (1)
/
  • Repeated the above
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  • Some improvement, but found need to continue improving instruction.
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  • Strengthened emphasis on counterargument through scoring rubric

61 / June
2010 /
  • Demonstrate college level writing (1)
/
  • Sentence combining activity
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  • Discovered that sentence combining is not an objective in the outline of record
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  • Resolved to include sentence combining in the next outline revision.
  • Decided in departmental discussion to pursue creating exemplars similar to the 98 SLO project detailed above.

English Department DLOs
  1. Present a clear, reasoned, well-supported, clearly-organized argument, demonstrating college-level writing skills.
  2. Recognize writing as a process of developing, drafting, revising, and editing.
  3. Conduct research appropriate to a narrowly specific topic, understanding how to find and evaluate the credibility of sources, incorporating information, concepts, and ideas from outside sources through summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting to develop strong, well-supported arguments, citing sources according to Modern Language Association guidelines.
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  1. Analyze texts, recognizing the arguments presented, and construct an effective, argumentative or persuasive response, synthesizing information, concepts, and ideas from various sources and including that knowledge in effective, well-reasoned arguments.
  2. Demonstrate understanding of acknowledged methods of critical thinking in analysis of literature.
  3. Analyze a variety of literary genres in their social, cultural and historical contexts.
  4. Evaluate the artistic contributions made by writers in the English, American and world literary traditions by analyzing the stylistic, formal, and thematic elements of their works.

Prepared by Paul Hendry, MSJC, SJC Campus 9/07/2010