College documentation of PROGRESS toward achieving project objectives

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LOP Fall 2001 Workshop Outcomes

• College documentation of PROGRESS toward
  achieving project objectives
• Draft of YEAR 2 PLAN - emphasizing
• assessment of student learning
• project evaluation documentation
• advocacy
• College assessment of the IMPACT the project is
  having on
• the organization
• student learning

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LOP Fall 2001 Workshop Outcomes

• College identification of MODEL or approach to
  learning outcomes
• College ACCOMPLISHMENTS NEEDS
• Review of CALENDAR, REPORTING expectations
• Stronger COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS

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ARIZONATrend Analysis
www.league.org Cindy Miles miles_at_league.org
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The 21st Century Learning Outcomes Project YEAR
ONE
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Learning College Principles

• The college MISSION is learning
• Learners are equal PARTNERS
• EVERYONEs job is student learning
• Multiple LEARNING OPTIONS
• SUCCESS is measured by learning outcomes

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The Measure of a Learning College
Does this XXX improve expand Learning? How
do we KNOW?
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GOAL To increase the capacity of community
colleges to define document acquisition of the
critical competencies that students need to
succeed in the workplace, in transfer education,
and in todays society.
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Learning for Life
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Project Management Objectives

1. ID Project Colleges, Facilitators, Evaluator
2. Establish College Teams
3. Develop Project Support Network

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Project Management Objectives

1. Implement Institutional Projects (5 Ds)
2. Develop Resources
3. Monitor Evaluate Progress
4. Disseminate

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Why is this work so hard???

• TRADITIONAL . . .
• . . . insulation from accountability for
  individual student learning at classroom level
• . . . resistance to self-assessment in higher
  education
• . . . external requirements for accountability,
  funding, and policy that are rarely tied to
  individual student learning
• . . . perception that some important learning
  outcomes are not measurable

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Why is this work so hard???
LACK OF . . . . . . collaboration among
disciplines other college groups . . .
knowledge about assessment processes tools . .
. awareness of the need for outcomes-based
education Increasing demands and constricting
resources that leave little time or incentive for
educational reform efforts of this magnitude
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Institutional Objectives

• 1. DEFINE
• Most colleges completed 1st Objective are
  developing pilot programs to implement 2nd
  objective
• Some revisited existing core competencies
• Some developed NEW ones

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Institutional Objectives

• 2. DEVELOP (set of curriculum components for each
  competency w/levels of performance, concrete
  indices of student work for each level,
  assessment strategies)
• Various stages of development, from 2 still
  defining to 2 w/comprehensive rubrics /matrices

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Institutional Objectives

• 3. DELIVER4 MODELS
• 1. In DISCRETE COURSES (MOST implementing at
  course level)
• Butler scholarship of assessment summer
  speech pilot, 8 fall classes
• Kingsborough Virtual Enterprise,ESL, chem.
• 2. In SOME PROGRAMS/AREAS
• Foothill CIS Language Arts
• Skagit program level assessment plans updated to
  include 21st CLOs

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Institutional Objectives

• 3. DELIVER (cont.)
• 3. ACROSS the CURRICULUM
• Hocking Core Comp. Map for each discipline
  (starting w/communication)
• Inver Hills Waukesha (WCTC levels tied to
  Blooms taxonomy)
• 4. OTHER
• San Diego Miramar college strategic plan
  shifting from institutional to student outcomes
• Mesa annual assessment week

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Institutional Objectives

• 4. DOCUMENT (beyond grades, credits,
  certificates, degrees)
• Waukesha Critical Life Skills Transcript
  (working on eTranscript)
• Inver Hills web-based Skills Profile
• Schoolcraft ePortfolio pilot in business
  department

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Institutional Objectives

• 5. DISSEMINATE - presentations
• LOP WEBSITE/16 college LOP sites
• Midlands So Carolina State Board
• Hocking board of trustees, Ohio Assessment
  Forum
• WCTC Inver Hills, Schoolcraft ,2 state assoc.
  mtgs
• Butler Johnson KS State Board of Regents,
  Heartland Alliance
• Facilitators/Directors Pew Forum, CC League
  of CA, Innovations, NISOD, Accrediting Assoc.
  Mtgs

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Institutional Objectives

• 5. DISSEMINATE publications
• College brochures (Inver Hills, Butler)
• WCTC Documenting Critical Life Skills
  Learning Abs.
• R. Baker - Educational Cartography Mapping the
  Learning Outcomes Frontier Michigan CC Journal,
  Spr 2001
• M. Hjelm R. Baker - Evaluating Individual
  Student Learning 4 Models of Assessment
  Learning Abstract (new)
• In PROGRESS.J. Warren article

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Institutional Outcomes

• More than just a project a catalyst for major
  institutional change
• This project brings together assessment work
  weve been doing for the last three years with a
  focus on preparing our students to succeed in the
  global economy.
• In some cases a complete shift in approach
• This is a brand new way of thinking for us.

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Year One reflects measured success!
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