Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Humanities
Course Number: AM 147
School/Unit: SOLA
Submitted by: Toni Richard and Gabriela Brochu
Contributing Faculty: Gabriela Brochu
Academic Year: Spring 2011
Complete and submit your assessment report electronically to your Academic Dean. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or a narrative description of the assessment activities in your
program or discipline.
Program, Discipline
or Course Outcomes
In the boxes below,
summarize the
outcomes assessed in
your program or
discipline during the
last year.
Outcome #1:
Students will be able
to read, understand,
interpret, and
communicate at an
advanced level in
American Sign
Language (ASL) both
expressively and
receptively.
Assessment Measures
In the boxes below,
summarize the methods
used to assess program,
discipline, or course
outcomes during the last
year.
Students will be able to
demonstrate their acquired
knowledge through
examination and back and
forth dialog. This will
measure the students’ ability
to read, use, express, and
comprehend ASL at an
advanced level.
Assessment Results
Use of Results
In the boxes below, summarize the results of your
assessment activities during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve
student learning.
In Spring 2011, we decided to assess the following core
syntactical indicators:
1) In ASL, classifiers are used to show what?
2) What classifier would you use to show something
with a base, such as a lamp?
3) If describing a room, what perspective do you start
with?
4) When finger spelling double letter words, what
syntactical rule do you follow?
5) How would you show a verb in continuous
inflection?
6) Three rules you follow when finger spelling a
Vocabulary word,
7) When talking about several generations of a family,
what language tools are used to keep the information
clear and easy to follow?
8) When transitioning between events and using time
signs, what body language is used to indicate this?
We also decided to assess the following cultural
indicators:
9) Culturally, Deaf individuals use 3 kinds of hand
shapes stories, what are they?
10) What is the name of the only Liberal Arts University
in the world established specifically for Deaf students?
The assessment indicated that
all but one core indicator was
below 70% accuracy. When
finger spelling double letter
words – what syntactical rule
do you follow? (Question #4)
showed accuracy of 64%. All
the other questions showed
accuracy between 91 and
100%, except for question 7,
which showed accuracy of 0%.
It seems clear that the problem
was in the way the question
was formulated. The students
were supposed to “select all
that apply” and mark 3 out of 4
answers as a correct answer.
Almost certainly they did not
read the instructions completely
and they just marked one
correct answer for this question.
Eleven (11) assessments were completed by one (1) AM
147 section in spring 2011. The class average was 8.3
Effect on Program,
Discipline or Course
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise
your outcomes? If so,
please summarize how and
why in the boxes below.
The syntactical rule to
follow when finger spelling
double letter words is an
area to be reinforced in AM
147. Also, more than one
correct answer for a
question should be avoided
in the assessment tool to
prevent confusion.
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Humanities
Course Number: AM 147
School/Unit: SOLA
Submitted by: Toni Richard and Gabriela Brochu
Contributing Faculty: Gabriela Brochu
Academic Year: Spring 2011
correct answers out of 10. Only one (1) section of AM
147 was offered in spring 2011.
The following indicates the number of times out of
eleven an incorrect answer was chosen for items 1-10:
0 1) In ASL, classifiers are used to show what?
0 2) What classifier would you use to show something
with a base, such as a lamp?
1 3) If describing a room, what perspective do you start
with?
4 4) When finger spelling double letter words – what
syntactical rule do you follow?
0 5) How would you show a verb in continuous
inflection?
1 6) Three rules you follow when finger spelling a
Vocabulary word,
11 7) When talking about several generations of a
family, what language tools are used to keep the
information clear and easy to follow?
0 8) When transitioning between events and using time
signs, what body language is used to indicate this?
1 9) Culturally, Deaf individuals use 3 kinds of hand
shapes stories, what are they?
0 10) What is the name of the only Liberal Arts
University in the world established specifically for Deaf
students?
Outcome #2:
Students will be able
to express a deeper
understanding of
some of the cultural
differences in the
Deaf population.
Students will be able to
demonstrate their acquired
knowledge through
examination and/or back
and forth dialog.
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Humanities
Course Number: AM 147
School/Unit: SOLA
Submitted by: Toni Richard and Gabriela Brochu
Contributing Faculty: Gabriela Brochu
Academic Year: Spring 2011
For Program, Discipline or Course Assessment Reports:
I have reviewed this report:
__Nancy Faires (signed electronically)
Department Chair
Armida Fruzzetti
Dean
Date_May 27, 2011
Date: May 27, 2011
John Tuthill
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
Date August 23, 2011
Revised 9/28/2009