MINUTES OF 11-4-14 SLOAC MEETING
Attendees: Harjot Sawhney, Christina Mendoza, Clayton Thiel, Bruce Mayer, Steve Small,
Felicia Tripp, Kent Uchiyama, Hilal Ozdemir, Mireille Giovanola, Robert Yest
Also in attendance: Rachel Ugale, Liem Huynh (ITS), Carolyn Arnold (IR)
Meeting called to order at 12:05 pm
1) Approval of Minutes • Minutes of 9/16/14 (Note taker: Christina Mendoza) Motion to approve minutes as corrected: Kent. Second: Felicia. Approved unanimously. • Minutes of 10/7/14: tabled • Minutes of 10/21/14 (Note taker: Harjot Sawhney) Motion to approve minutes as corrected: Rob. Second: Bruce. Approved unanimously. Follow up: Hiring of SLO coordinator: Bruce: If we cannot find a full-­‐time faculty for this job, let’s hire a part-­‐time faculty. Mireille: PT faculty are not paid enough. They get burned out, and leave. Hilal: Hire a person outside of Chabot College. Christina: Mireille is working voluntarily as coordinator. That would help the new coordinator. Rob: I will be compensated for tracking process compliance for SLOs, Closing-­‐the-­‐Loop forms and assessment schedules in last year’s Program Reviews. 2) SLO module implementation: update Mireille told Jeanine to map CLOs to CWLG using drop down menu. It has been done. Jeanine is working on mapping CLOs to PLOs. Steve: We will rewrite PLO’s in our program review. We will get state data from Perkins. It has all the statistics that tells us how many students who took classes at Chabot College are successful in the industry. Rachel: eLumen has CLOs mapped to CWLGs but not to PLOs. How do you want to do this in Curricunet? Rob: Map CLOs to PLOs and PLO to CWLGs. Map CLOs to CWLGs. There are PLOs in eLumen. Mireille has sent the eLumen link to Jeannine, and Bruce has sent his PowerPoint presentation on linking CLOs to PLOs to CWLGs. Goal: The SLO module ought to be ready by Dec 2014 for SLOAC members to test. 3) GE SLO Assessment: update Felicia, Mireille, Stacy Thompson and Gene Groppetti selected GE courses in each AA/AS area on Flex Day (9/2). They have tried to come up with at least 2 courses per GE area. Carolyn: We send a survey about CWLGs every other year. This is an indirect method where students tell us if they learned the material. We measure critical thinking with the use of a 4-­‐point rubric for disciplines that have CLOs that are linked to critical thinking. Action plan: Ask faculty to use a direct method of assessment. At Chabot, 70 – 80 % of the GE courses are linked to critical thinking. The questions should be general enough to work for everybody. Work with other instructors to analyze how students are performing. Rob: There are specific CLOs for GE courses. Mireille: We can ask each faculty to pick a CLO in their discipline that is linked to Critical Thinking. Then we all use the same scoring system: 0 – 4. Carolyn: This is the easier method. Scantron and survey software are easy. Rob: For GE courses, 14 – 20 samples are being evaluating. Mireille: 1 CWLG is fine for this semester according to Stacy. We can work on other CWLGs over the next semesters. Rob: We can work on 2 CWLGs this semester. We can choose critical thinking and communication. This will reduce our work since we will not be working on other CWLGs next semester. Every instructor will give us the aggregate for each rubric. Mireille: I hear that we have money to use for the FIG. But there is nothing in writing. Carolyn: We discussed this 3 or 4 years ago. I can pull out GE courses and their results in the survey. Rob: We are assessing GE courses for qualitative standards. Carolyn: Do the survey, review the results, and then discuss the results. Rob: All CLOs are rolled into eLumen. In Curricunet, you can pull out the CLOs. Meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm Submitted by Harjot Sawhney Next Meeting: Nov 18th, 2014 (Note: SLOAC meets on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays)