Instructional Planning Yearly Update 2013
Date: November 31, 2013
Department: Computer Science
Division: Natural and Applied Sciences
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
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
Comments
(identify source
of funding)
Curriculum: Fund the scheduling of three new
courses and two revised courses. 12 TU @
$1700.00 = $20,400 plus $2,000
software/hardware support every other year
or $11,200.00 annually.
Student Support and Student Success: Fund
tutor support. (40 hrs/week; $12/hr- Student
Assistant 4; 34 weeks, includes summer if
courses offered) annually.
No
Partially
funded
We continue to offer CIS160mpa which is taught by CS
faculty but offered through the CIS department. Increased
funding has re-instated CS24 to an annual (fall only) course.
No additional new course offerings are planned for 13-14.
Yes
CTC/IT &
STEM grant
Fall 2013: final semester of one student tutor in the CTC
funded by IT to help CS programming students 8 hours/week.
Spring 2014: STEM grant pays for 24 hours/week of peer
tutoring (one semester only)
Student Support and Student Success: Fund
course support materials for under-funded
students, annually.
Student Support and Student Success: Fund
database project to identify present CS
majors and alumni. $4000.00 one-time,
$200.00 annually.
Staffing: Fund staff development for new
technologies, annually.
No
New Goals and Recommendations
Goal/Recommendation
Continue 800 building CS scheduling
Lab Technician for the CIS datacenter
OS X computers
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No
This may be completed through the STEM grant.
No
This may be completed through the STEM grant.
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
n/a
The CS program and our students have benefited from the co-housing
of our classroom, office, and lab spaces. Continue CS scheduling of
825 lecture classroom and 828 and 829 computer classrooms.
as per CIS plan
Servers that manage the virtual labs for the CS courses are now
housed in the CIS 800 building data center (formerly they were
housed in an IT data center.) The CS department relies on these
servers to offer our courses. This lab is currently managed by CIS
faculty on a volunteer basis, and permanent staff support is required.
3 @ $2500.00 ea.
OS X computers are the required platform for mobile application
development, and Unix workstations are the standard platform used in
Computer Science. No OS X computers are available in the STEM
lab, and the CS department doesn’t have any. We would like to
acquire three OS X computers to be housed in the STEM lab for
student use.
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 you’re not sure where you should be on the Revolving Wheel
contact the SLO Coordinator (x6366). If any task was not completed, explain why.
We are on track on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment and have completed all of our SLO assessments as proposed in the CS Program Plan
from 2010. CS20GP has not been scheduled or assessed recently. It is expected that CS20GP will be deleted in 2014.
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.
Core Competency, Course
SLO, or CTE Program SLO
Assessed. Example: all course
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2
Fall 12: Certificate of
Achievement C++ SLOs
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Date of meeting where
analysis / dialogue took
place. Example: Department
Meeting 8/27/10
SLO Meeting, 2/4/13
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.
For this certificate all SLOs were assessed through the analysis of the final
programming projects in the courses that comprise each degree.
Approximately eighty percent of students completing the final project met
the goals of the three SLOs. Of the 20% who did not, the primary issues
were lack of adequate design before attempting the project, and lack of
testing of the final project after code completion.
Improvements: The project assignments themselves do not need
modification. Requiring students to submit designs for the final project in
advance of the project deadline will be implemented the next time the
courses are taught, and additional examples of program testing will be
Fall 12: Core 2: Critical
Thinking
SLO Meeting, 2/4/13
Fall 12: AA and AS Computer
Science (3-4)
SLO Meeting, 2/4/13
Spring 13: Core 3: Global
Awareness
SLO Meeting, 8/23/13
Spring 13: Certificate of
Achievement Java: SLOs
SLO Meeting, 8/23/13
Spring 13: Certificate of
Achievement Programming:
SLOs
SLO Meeting, 8/23/13
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provided.
Core Competency: Critical Thinking and Information Competency
This SLO was assessed through the analysis of programming projects.
Results were very good. Primary issues related to program design and
program testing. Additional class time will be spent discussing the
importance and techniques of program design and program testing.
SLO 3: Demonstrate information literacy individually, and as a team
member (proper citations, documentation, ethical practices). (Critical
Thinking, Communication, Professional Development, Global Awareness)
SLO 4: Demonstrate professional conduct by meeting strict project
deadlines, participating in self-managed teams, and adopting classroom
behavioral norms. Communication, Professional Development
All class projects, including final projects, require meeting these objectives.
Students must successfully complete these projects in order to successfully
complete the courses.
Core Competency: Global Awareness
Complex programming projects require a clear understanding of the
scientific process in order for students to design, perform, and analyze
experiments. Several lesson-specific improvement strategies were
discussed.
For this certificate all SLOs were assessed through the analysis of
programming projects in the courses that comprise each degree. About 75%
of students met the goals of the three SLOs. Primary issue was students not
beginning early enough, or changing topics too late in the process. In the
future, students will be advised to begin work early and to not change topic
close to the deadline.
For this certificate all SLOs were assessed through the analysis of
programming projects in the courses that comprise each degree. About 80%
of students met the goals of the three SLOs. As in the Java certificate, the
primary issue was students not beginning early enough, or changing topics
too late in the process. In the future, students will be advised to begin work
early and to not change topic close to the deadline.