Annual Program Review Update
*Be sure to include information from all three campuses.
Program/Discipline: Guidance
Date:
9/21/07
Trends and Relevant Data
1. Has there been any change in the status of your program or area? (Have you
shifted departments? Have new degrees or certificates been created by your
program? Have you added or deleted courses? Have activities in other programs
impacted your area or program? For example, a new nursing program could
cause greater demand for life-science courses.) If not, skip to #2.
Note: curricular changes should be addressed under 12-14.
The Guidance Department is a conglomeration of courses that has no
centralized organization or line of authority or budgeting. It is nominally
contained in the Humanities Division, but as of Fall 2007 is actually
administered by several departments with the Student Services and Learning
Support Division. For example, the Guidance 41 course has switched from
the Business and Technology (BT) Division to the Student Services in 2003,
back to BT in Fall 2006, and then back again to Student Services in Fall
2007.
Changes to the DSPS referral system have involved an elimination of
Guidance 343 as a filter mechanism resulting in reduced wait times for
testing.
2. Have there been any significant changes in enrollment, retention, success rates, or
student demographics that impact your discipline?
No significant changes in these areas for Guidance 8 and 41 despite overall
decline in campus enrollments.
Increased enrollment provides challenges in service delivery to students with
psychological disabilities. California’s Community Colleges system served a
total of 14,638 students with psychological disabilities, a 430% increase.
While this growth is significant Redwoods increase over the same time frame
surpasses the State’s growth rate by 158%. Over the past 3 years, the
number of students without disabilities enrolling in Guidance 345 has been
steadily on the rise on the Eureka campus.
If so, please include data sheets (Excel or Word format) showing these changes.
3. Occupational programs must review the update of their labor-market data, some
of it provided by Institutional Research, to illustrate that their program:
a. Meets a documented labor market demand,
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b. Does not represent duplication of other training programs (in the region), and
c. Is of demonstrated effectiveness as measured by the employment and
completion success of its students.
Not Applicable
Other Resources
4. Do you have needs (professional development, library resources, and so forth) not
previously required by the discipline or not previously addressed in budget or
equipment considerations? Please describe.
No changes noted for Guidance 8.
Due to continuous updates in Title 5 Implementing Guidelines for DSPS in
determining eligibility for a learning disability, professional development
skills training is mandatory for Learning Disabilities Specialists who teach
Guidance 343 and 345. Regular trainings are provided by the California
Community Colleges at the High Tech Training Unit, DeAnza Community
College at Cupertino.
5. Does your discipline need additional support from Student Services beyond that
previously provided?
Support from Student Services is adequate.
Human Resource Needs
6. Complete the Faculty Employment Grids below (please list full- and part-time
faculty numbers in separate rows): Accreditation Website
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for fall
2006 term
% of Total
Teaching
Load by
Full-Time
Faculty
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by PartTime Faculty
Changes from
fall 2005
Guidance
8
0%
100%
-0.5
Guidance
343/345 –
Eureka
Guidance
343/345 –
Del Norte
Guidance
343/345 –
1.6
62.5%
37.5%
0
.75
100%
0
.6
100%
0
2
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g.,
retirement,
reassignment, etc.)
Mendocino
Guidance
.9
379/380 –
Eureka
100%
0
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for
spring 2007
term
% of Total
Teaching
Load by
Full-Time
Faculty
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by PartTime Faculty
Changes from
spring 2006
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g.,
retirement,
reassignment, etc.)
Guidance
8/41
4.51
(Guid 8:
3.0;
Guid 41:
1.51)
1.43
0%
100%
-3.49
Eureka campus:
no qualified P/T
Faculty
available for
Guid 41;
70%
30%
0.17
100%
0
100%
0.17
100%
0.3
Guidance
343/345 –
Eureka
Guidance
.75
343/35 –
Del Norte
Guidance
.43
343/345 –
Mendocino
Guidance
.60
379/380 –
Eureka
Do you need more full-time faculty? Associate faculty? If yes, explain why and
be sure to include data sheets justifying the need. (See form in appendix B)
Staffing is sufficient at this time.
7. Complete the Staff Employment Grid below (please list full- and part-time staff
numbers in separate rows:
Staff Employed in the Program Fall 2007
Assignment
Full-time
Part-time staff
(e.g., Math,
(classified) staff (give number)
English)
(give number)
3
Gains over
Prior Year
Losses over
Prior Year (give
reason:
retirement,
reassignment,
health, etc.)
Guidance 8
0
Guidance 41
0
Guidance 343
Guidance 345
0
0
Guidance 379
Guidance 380
0
0
1 (3.0 TLU) 1
class Eureka
campus
1 (3.0 TLU) 2
classes
Mendocino
campus
0
3 @ Eureka
1@
Mendocino
2 @ Del Norte
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1 (lay-off)
0
0
0
0
Do you need more full-time staff? Part-time staff? If yes, explain why and be sure
to include data sheets justifying the need. (Form Appendix B, p.56)
8. If necessary, to clarify your needs, please comment on current available staff and
distribution of FTE's for contract and part-time faculty. Describe strengths and
weaknesses of faculty/staff as appropriate to program's current status or future
development.
The “Guidance Program” is officially listed under the Humanities Division
but in actuality being administered by Student Services. The classes
supported by this division are in the DSPS, LRC, Career Center,
Cooperative Education, and general student life. There is no identified
“department chair” to coordinate these activities and there is no clerical
support. The strength of this area is that highly competent associate faculty
have historically been identified to teach the active classes. The staffing
weakness lies in not having identified coordinating and clerical staff with
authority and fiscal resources.
Facilities
9. Comment on facilities the program uses, their current adequacy, and any
immediate needs. Have your discipline’s facilities needs changed? If so, how?
Please provide a data-based justification for any request that requires new or
additional facilities construction, renovation, remodeling or repairs.
The Guidance 8 and 41 are currently online classes that are adequately
served by the Blackboard learning environment.
DSPS facilities for Guidance 343, 345, 379, and 380 are adequate at the newly
remodeled Del Norte and Mendocino campuses. The facilities at the Eureka
campus are inadequate but are scheduled to be addressed with the new
Student Services building tentatively scheduled for construction in 2009.
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Equipment
10. Have your discipline’s equipment needs changed? If so, how? Is equipment in
need of repair outside of your current budget? Please provide a data-based
justification for any request that requires a new or additional budget allotment.
The Guidance disciplines’ equipment needs have not changed at this time
that would require funds outside of current budgets.
What resources are required (Personnel, funding, equipment, etc)?
A current inventory as of 2006 and a projected three year Equipment and
Personnel Plan, including Guidance 343, 345, 379 380, was developed for the
CR campuses. Future computer replacements will need to be addressed,
within the developing College computer replacement plan, as well as
additional staff at selected sites in light of ongoing student usage patterns.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Update
11. How has your area or program been engaged in student learning outcomes
assessment?
Guidance 8 and 41 completed student learning outcomes development
assessments in 2006 and 2005, respectively.
Guidance 343, 345, 379, and 380 student learning outcomes (SLOs) are
currently being revised and developed. The SLOs for Guidance 379 and 380
were updated in 2005-2006 so these, and the other courses and their
assessment methods, are scheduled for completion on October 5, 2007.
a. Summarize your results.
The Guidance 8 class has been revised to include specific learning outcomes.
This process has been monitored this past semester and the result have
included the following:
1. Students demonstrated their grasp of career exploration and planning
concepts covered in the course, by their postings on the class discussion
boards.
2. Students were assigned career informational gathering interviews to help
with obtaining career data from individuals working within professions
of interest to them.
3. Students completed on-line career assessment tools.
b.
What did your program learn from these results that enabled you to
improve teaching and learning in the discipline?
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The Guidance 8 data received from students in the form of their discussion
board comments, completion of information interview collection forms, and
the results of on-line career interest inventories and internet based career
exploratory exercises indicated a high degree of success in meeting the stated
learning outcomes of this course. The results reinforced that the stated
learning outcomes were being met through the personal assessment
assignments that were used in the class. The assessment tasks appear to
provide an effective means of measuring the learning outcomes of students.
c.
How have part-time faculty been made aware of the need to assess SLOs?
All of the Guidance 8, 41, 343, 345, 379, and 380 classes are taught by parttime faculty with the exception of one full-time faculty member for Guidance
343 and 345 at the Eureka campus. The course outlines (including
assessment of the SLOs) were developed either by, or in consultation with,
those part-time faculty and the administrator responsible for those classes.
The importance of assessing SLOs was a focus of the course outline revisions.
In 2005-2006, an extensive overview of repeatability in Guidance 379 and 380
courses was completed by faculty and staff in the High Tech Center on the
Eureka campus. As a result of this work, course accountability as well as
clearly defined student learning outcomes were developed with part-time
faculty.
Curriculum Update
12 Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives undertaken
in the last year.
The Guidance 41 (World of Work) course outline was updated during the
2005-2006 school year while the Guidance 8 (Career Exploration) course
outline was updated during the 2006-2007 school year. The updates included
identifying student learning outcomes (SLOs) and assessment methods.
Course Outline updates for Guidance 343, 345, 379 & 380 are in progress
and will be completed by October 5, 2007.
SLOs for Guidance 41:
a. Identify personal skill set.
b. Gather, analyze, and use personal and employer data.
c. Match prospective employer needs to student’s skill set.
d. Apply understanding of software applications and other electronic
resources.
e. Understand the changing job market.
SLOs for Guidance 8:
a. Identify his or her values, interests, worker traits, and work
preferences.
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b. Discuss the role of self-esteem in developing a successful career plan.
c. Identify and use specific components of the “success profile” such as:
positive self-talk (self-affirmations), visualization techniques, and
assertion skills within the context of career planning and decision
making.
d. Recognize approaches and techniques for creating opportunities for
success in career planning.
e. Assess careers using information about trends impacting the world of
work.
f. Gather career-planning data from a variety of sources including
print, computer-based assessments, internet sites, and informational
interviewing.
g. Evaluate potential career goals consistent with identified values,
interests, worker traits, and work preferences.
13. Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives planned for
the next year.
Several courses that have not been taught in the last few years are being
forwarded to the Curriculum Committee for deactivation. They include:
Guidance 199, 205, 300, 399, 40, and 99.
14. Complete the grid below
Course
Guidance 8
Guidance 41
Guidance 343
Guidance 345
Guidance 379
Guidance 380
Year Course Outline
Last Updated
Fall 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 1992
Spring 1992
Spring 1990
Spring 1990
Year Next Update
Expected
2011
2010
Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Goals and Plans
15. If you have recently undergone a comprehensive review, attach your Quality
Improvement Plan if applicable. NA
16. If you do not have a QIP, what goals and plans does your area have for the
coming year?
a. Complete Guidance 343, 345, 379, and 380 course outline updates and
revisions
b. Initiate, in consultation with the IR department, quantitative assessments
of Guidance’ courses student learning outcomes for course improvements
and/or changes.
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