SLOAC Meeting Minutes
September 10, 2015
In attendance: Michael Hunter, Norman Lorenz, Jonathan Zeh, Rick Woodmansee, Jarom Burbano, Julia Jolly, Kimberlee Beyrer, Amy Zannakis, Elaine Ader
Absent: Dianne Bennett, Marybeth Buechner, Gayle Pitman
I. Welcome/introductions
II. Announcements
- Joint dean's presentation of SLOAC appeared to contain people that were unaware of this new system
- suggestion of PD to be developed during a deans division meeting to orient and overview of the SLOAC reporting software system; communicate with “reporters” to assure the data is clean and organized
III. Discussion items
a. SLO reporting tool – update
Jarom- software update and demonstration regarding the reporting mechanism
Demonstration of input fields: assessment method; student achievement rating, summary of assessment results, & plans for change
Discussion:
-Access to Socrates
-Save report as a draft item
-semi-annual roll over
-SLO by department and/or program
-report- clarification as to whether we should arrange them by subject or designator
-recommend clarifying with Marybeth concerning how the data is manipulated
-a separate and distinct table could be created for LO’s not associated with either programs and/or departments
-suggestion to get Marilyn Perry, Instruction, involved who knows this information and could consult around these 16 pp of topics associated with SLO’s & ProLo’s
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-ProLo
-Student Services
-Manage areas- General and area learning outcome
-recommend that assessment occurs by semester and reporting cycles every three years
-Clarify with Gabriel as to the state reporting for CTE’s every two or three years
-Admin
-About
*Jarom needs access to Socrates in order to have current data on all curriculum; Jarom is asked to forward refusal e-mail to Julia to revisit this access issue
Motion:
Second:
Discussion:
all in favor:
no:
abstentions:
b. SLOAC online tool workgroup- Update from Elaine and Jarom on the progress. We'd like to have someone from Student Services and Learning Resources consult on it too, since those are components we're building now.
Discussion:
-Kevin Flash is recommended to get involved ( he can collect folks for substantive issues)
-Rick Woodmansee
-Kimberlee Beyrer
-Diane Belair
-Human Services 1000 assignment- See Elaine for follow up or treat it is a tutoring issue and these folks be responsible for SLO reporting
Motion:
Second:
Discussion:
all in favor:
no:
abstentions:
c. ProLO mapping, and what to do when only a subset of SLOs for a course have been reported on (rather than all of them). Some departments report on a few, others report on all, and that will present a problem when we're ProLO mapping.
Discussion:
-conversation around choosing programs that select and check the entire SLO’s or making the choice to select one at a time.
-recommendation around reporting on all SLO within the 6 year reporting cycle
-align courses with CID courses, they don’t have SLO’s but have the 17 qualifiers.
-Conversation about following a more similar structure like CRC…
-Consideration of distinguishing between “Capitalized” SLO & “lowercase” objectives
-Rick will work with Jarom to investigate whether we could adopt the “CRC” model of SLO’s and objectives
Motion:
Second:
Discussion:
all in favor:
no:
abstentions:
Adjourn:
IV. Upcoming meetings- Next meeting September 24, 2015
SLOAC: 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month, 3:00-4:00PM in B107.
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