Closing the Loop: SLOs, GE SLOs, Assessment, Curriculum, Program Review, Planning, and Budgeting

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Closing the Loop SLOs, GE SLOs, Assessment,
Curriculum, Program Review, Planning, and
Budgeting

• Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo College
• Janet Fulks, Bakersfield College
• Lesley Kawaguchi, Santa Monica College

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Burning Questions

• Where is your college on the ACCJC Rubric for
  SLOs?

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Burning Questions

• What does your college need to do to get to
  proficiency by 2012?

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More Burning Questions

• Where would you place your college on the ACCJC
  Rubric for Program Review?
• Where does ACCJC expect colleges to be currently?

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The Whole Ball of Wax

• Program Review is where all three ACCJC rubrics
  come together
• Institutional Effectiveness
• SLOs
• Program Review

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So Whats a Program?

• Title 5 55000(g) educational program is "an
  organized sequence of courses leading to a
  defined objective, a degree, a certificate, a
  diploma, a license, or transfer to another
  institution of higher education

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Whats a Program?

• Title 5 ends in a degree or certificate
• Disciplines majors, areas of interest
• Departments
• Student Pathways (EOPS, CTE, Transfer)
• Mirror planning organization
• Mirror budget organization (Are these last two
  equal?)
• Differences for student services, administrative
  services?

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Can These Be Programs?

• General Education
• Basic Skills
• Vocational CTE
• Others?

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How does your college define programs?

• Do you need to define it differently to reach the
  sustainable level on the ACCJC Rubric for Program
  Review?
• Do you need to define it differently to reach
  proficiency on the ACCJC Rubric for SLOs?

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Program level SLOs

• Guides Program Review
• Promotes Healthy Program Dialogue
• Links across departments
• Considers external factors

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Burning Questions about Assessment

• What kinds of assessments are you using to
  measure programs?
• How can your assessment methods work with other
  processes (budgeting, currculum etc) established
  at your college?

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More Burning Questions

• Where does your college store the data?

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How Will Program Assessment Have Value?

• How does your program review process link to
  planning and budgeting at your college?

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How can your college sustain these efforts?
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Program Review Represents the Vital Signs of a
Healthy Institution
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Signs of Successful Linkage

• Communication
• Planning driving budgeting NOT
• budgeting driving planning
• Use of Evidence
• ??

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ASCCC Program Review Paper

• Structure
• Data
• Program Variety
• Evaluation of Program Review Process

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CCC Network for Student Learning Outcomes
Assessment

• http//sloassessment.com/
• Links to Program review samples and worksheets
• http//www.asccc.org/Events/sessions/spring2009/ma
  terials.html

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Thank you