Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Spanish
Course Number: SPAN 111 (Online class)
School/Unit: SOLA
Submitted by: Gabriela Brochu
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Complete and submit your assessment report to your Academic Dean. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or a narrative description of the assessment activities in
your program/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 read,
understand, interpret,
and communicate
spoken and/or written
Spanish at a beginner’s
level.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
In the boxes below,
summarize the methods
used to assess program,
discipline or course
outcomes during the last
year.
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.
Students will be able to
demonstrate their
acquired knowledge
through examination
which will prove their
ability to read, write,
speak, and/or
comprehend Spanish at
a beginner’s level.
In fall 2010, we decided to assess
the following core indicators:
present tense, direct object
pronouns, ser/estar, reflexive verbs,
and noun/adjective agreement.
The assessment indicated that
only question #5: reflexive
verbs (63% accuracy) fell
below a 70% accuracy level.
The rest of the indicators
showed accuracy between
73.68% and 94.74%.
These are the core indicators
numbers one through ten targeted:
1. ser/estar,
2. present tense: subject/verb
agreement,
3. present tense: subject/verb
agreement and stem-changing
verbs,
4. direct object pronoun,
5. reflexive verbs,
6. present tense: subject/verb
agreement and stem-changing
verbs,
7. noun/adjective agreement,
8. ser/estar and hay,
9. present tense: present
progressive, and
10. ser/estar and tener.
Effect on the 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.
Reflexive verbs is an area to be
reinforced in SPAN 111 online. To
evaluate the online classes, we
used the same assessment tool as
the one used for the face-to-face
classes, with the exception of core
indicator #5 (reflexive verbs) due
to a difference in programs
between online and face-to-face.
We wanted to see if there were
differences between online and
face-to-face classes. The
assessment of face-to-face classes
showed that noun/adjective
agreement is an area to be
reinforced in SPAN 111. We did
not observe this in the online
classes. The only subject that fell
below a 70% accuracy level was
reflexive verbs, which is not taught
in SPAN 111 face-to-face classes
(it is taught in SPAN 112).
Therefore, we did not observe
differences between the online and
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Spanish
Course Number: SPAN 111 (Online class)
School/Unit: SOLA
Submitted by: Gabriela Brochu
Academic Year: 2010-2011
face-to-face classes.
Nineteen (19) assessments were
completed by two (2) online
sections of SPAN 111. The average
was 7.7 correct out of 10. Two (2)
sections of SPAN 111 online were
offered in fall 2010, and they were
taught by the same instructor.
The following indicates the number
of times out of nineteen (19) an
incorrect answer was chosen for
items 1-10:
4 1. ser/estar,
3 2. present tense: subject/verb
agreement,
2 3. present tense: subject/verb
agreement and stem-changing
verbs,
5 4. direct object pronoun,
7 5. reflexive verbs,
1 6. present tense: subject/verb
agreement and stem-changing
verbs,
5 7. noun/adjective agreement,
3 8. ser/estar and hay,
4 9. present tense: present
progressive, and
2 10. ser/estar and tener.
The next assessment tool for
online SPAN 111 might focus
primarily on reflexive verbs.
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Spanish
Course Number: SPAN 111 (Online class)
School/Unit: SOLA
Submitted by: Gabriela Brochu
Academic Year: 2010-2011
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
JohnTuthill
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
Date August 23, 2011
Revised 9/28/2009