Instructional Planning Yearly Update Date _____12-14-2012__________
Department ______Psychology_________
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
Division _____HASS________________
List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met?
Goals / Recommendations from six-year plan In progress Goal Met
(source of funding)
Comments
Develop an Honors version of Psych 1. x Psych 1H is offered in Spring 2013.
x Psych 2A is scheduled for Fall 2013. Add a new 3-unit statistics course.
Add a new “Lifespan Development” course.
Obtain software and PCs for the stats course.
Expand periodicals collection in library.
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Psych 8 is being revised to be a “lifespan” course and is going thru the curriculum process in Spring 2013.
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New Goals and Recommendations
Goal/Recommendation
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
[Last year] Adopt C-ID model for Psych major
Cost no additional costs
Explanation/Evidence of Need
Facilitate student transfer to CSU
SLO Assessment Progress:
In a sentence or two, describe where your department should be on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment (what assessment you should have done in the last year) and what was actually done. If not every thing was completed, explain why.
We are in the third year of assessing student performance related to course SLOs.
Fill out the Assessment Results section below.

SLO Assessment Results
: List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below.
Attach
Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters
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Core Competency, Course
SLO, or CTE Program SLO
Assessed. Example: all course
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2
Date of meeting where analysis / dialogue took place.
Example: Department Meeting
8/27/10
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment.
Example:
Develop strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of class.
Psych 1 SLOs
Dept Meeting 2/2/12
Dept Meeting 4/22/12
Dept Meeting 8/23/12
Discussed implications of C-ID model and updated course descriptions
Final selection of new text for Psych 1; implications for measures of SLOs.
Discussed forms of group studying and the inclusion of SLOs in syllabi.