DSA Assessment Plan for AY 2014-2015
Department Name:
Director:
Assessment Contact(s)
(if not the director):
Department Mission Statement:
Department Vision Statement:
Children's Learning Centers
Jennifer Skopal
The mission of the Children’s Learning Centers (CLC) is to provide a nationally accredited exemplary early childhood program that supports the
student, staff, and faculty of the University of Houston (UH) while at the same time, encourages UH student success by offering opportunities for
learning, discovery and engagement.
To be a program that: honors the young child and their family; advocates for young children, current research, and the early childhood
profession; and demonstrates a commitment to the University of Houston (UH) and student success. The Children’s Learning Centers wants to
maintain a strong focus on resource management that enables CLC to identify revenue opportunities for building a new (or renovating the
current) centers so that the CLC facility reflects both the University of Houston’s Tier One status and an exemplary early childhood program.
1. CLC will provide student employment and explore options for expanding internship opportunities to help develop learning, thinking, and life
skills that lead to success at the next level. (DSAES 2.c)
2. CLC staff members will participate in a continuous program of professional learning in order to provide the highest quality of customer
satisfaction and educational program to the children of UH Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni. (DSAES 2.e)
3. CLC will participate in collaborative learning communities to improve instruction and student learning for both children and UH students.
(DSAES 1.e)
Department Goals: (include DSAES
strategic plan mapping)
4. CLC will report clearly defined measurable data that represent the attainment of content knowledge, skills, and learning outcomes
demonstrating a continued contribution to children’s learning and UH student success. (DSAES 4.c)
5. CLC will implement staff development and evaluation processes to ensure accountability and improved professional practices resulting in
children’s learning and Center success. (DSAES 4.c)
The above goals are a subset of action items that directly relate to UH Student Success/Learning.
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DSA Assessment Plan for AY 2014-2015
Program or Services Being Assessed: CLC Student Employee Development Program/Skill demonstration
Learning Outcome(s) and/or
Purpose
Method
Frequency / Timeline
Program Objective(s)
The CLC student employee will
To evaluate CLC student employees on
CLC teachers will provide orientations, trainings, December, May, and August.
and coaching to the CLC student employees that
demonstrate skills that promote
their work ethic/practices.
professionalism in the workplace as
they supervise. Adherence to schedule,
a result of the CLC Student Employee
customer orientation, personal skills, policies
Development Program.
and procedures, productivity and work
relationships will be measured using the Student
Staff Performance Review evaluation rubric
(Campus Labs). The students will be rated using
the following scale for each criteria: Poor, Good,
Excellent and Exemplary. Data will be compared
from semester to semester as well as year to
year.
Goal(s)
Supported
1,2,3,4,5
Fall Results: Overall, student employees (49R) receiving an evaluation rating of Excellent or higher was 96% in fall 2014. First semester student employees (18R) receiving an evaluation
rating of Excellent or higher was 89% in fall 2014. The Campus Labs Rubric Score was 83.84 out of 100 points. Spring Results: Overall, student employees (47R) receiving an evaluation
rating of Excellent or higher was 98% in spring 2015. First semester student employees (9R) receiving an evaluation rating of Excellent or higher was 100% in spring 2015. The Campus
Labs Rubric Score was 86.39 out of 100 points. Summer Results: Overall, student employees (30R) receiving an evaluation rating of Excellent or higher was 97% in summer 2015. The
first semester student employee (1R) received an evaluation rating of Good in summer 2015. The Campus Labs Rubric Score was 86.94 out of 100 points.
Action: The Student Employee Development Program entails orientations, trainings, and hands-on learning. From the results of this assessment, the CLC student employees are
demonstrating work ethic/practices that promote professionalism. This was the first semester that the Rubric information was input into Campus Labs. From these results, we were
able to identify the 6 students who are not demonstrating improvement and provide/implement strategies for intervention. We will continue to utilize this assessment in FY16 for
coaching and goal development purposes.
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DSA Assessment Plan for AY 2014-2015
Program or Services Being Assessed: CLC Student Employee Development Program/Self-reflection
Learning Outcome(s) and/or
Purpose
Method
Frequency / Timeline
Program Objective(s)
CLC student employees will develop To measure the progression of CLC student Through a Campus Labs survey, CLC student
December and May
skill acquisition and professional
employee professional development and employees will self-report the extent to which
competencies as a result of CLC
enhance training opportunities based on student employment at CLC has developed their
employment.
assessment feedback.
skills/competencies and provide feedback for
future training topics. The survey is administered
using skip-logic; students will answer questions
determined by how many semesters they have
been employed at CLC. Data will be compared
from semester to semester as well as year to
year.
Goal(s)
Supported
1,2,3,4,5
Fall Results: Of the respondents (21R) who answered questions in fall 2014 designated for those employed 1 or 2 semesters, 93% of the responses indicated they strongly/moderately
agreed that their skill development had improved as a result of their CLC employment. Of the respondents (16R) who answered questions designated for those employed 3 or more
semesters, 96% of the responses in fall 2014 also indicated they strongly/moderately agreed that their skill development had improved as a result of their CLC employment. In fall 2014,
95% of the student leader responses (6R) indicated they strongly/moderately agreed that their skill development had improved as a result of their CLC employment. Spring Results: Of
the respondents (19R) who answered questions in spring 2015 designated for those employed 1 or 2 semesters, 96% of the responses indicated they strongly/moderately agreed that
their skill development had improved as a result of their CLC employment. Of the respondents (15R) who answered questions designated for those employed 3 or more semesters,
98% of the responses in spring 2015 indicated they strongly/moderately agreed that their skill development had improved as a result of their CLC employment. In spring 2015, 90% of
the student leader responses (9R) indicated they strongly/moderately agreed that their skill development had improved as a result of their CLC employment. From fall to spring, 52% of
the responses received a higher rating.
Action: We will continue to utilize this assessment in FY16 for coaching and goal development purposes.
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DSA Assessment Plan for AY 2014-2015
Program or Services Being Assessed: CLC Student Employee Development Program/Goal development
Learning Outcome(s) and/or
Purpose
Method
Program Objective(s)
The CLC student employee will be
To measure the CLC student employee’s
At the end of the semester, CLC student
able to formulate professional
ability to formulate professional
employees will engage in one on one coaching
development goals for the next
development goals that are specific,
sessions with CLC site managers to discuss their
semester as a result of synthesizing measurable, attainable, relevant, and time- evaluations and self-assessment surveys. The
his/her CLC work experiences.
specific (S.M.A.R.T).
students will be asked to formulate professional
development goals for the next semester based
on discussions during the coaching session. The
goals will be evaluated utilizing a Campus Labs
rubric.
Frequency / Timeline
For CLC student employees
employed in the fall, S.M.A.R.T. goals
will be developed in
December/January and evaluated
during the spring semester.
Goal(s)
Supported
1,3,5
Spring Results: The results are based on CLC student employees who received a Fall evaluation (Assessment Project 1) and completed the Fall Campus Labs Survey (Assessment Project
2). These 30 student employees received a coaching session on the combined assessment results and completed a S.M.A.R.T goal based on the results feedback. The S.M.A.R.T Goal
Rubric results included 23% Excellent Scores and 77% Exemplary Scores.
Action: We will continue this assessment in FY16 as well as add a second assessment evaluating the completion of the goals developed.
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