Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Steve C. Schenk
Academic Year: 2010-2011
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:
Be able to distinguish and
explain the major
characteristics of the nine
major animal phyla.
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.
Based on the results of this assessment, will
you revise your outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the boxes below.
Pre-test assessment where
students are asked to fill in
their knowledge and then
the same format asked again
on the final exam (see
attached).
Nineteen students took
both the pre-assessment
and the final exam. For a
summary of the gains in
knowledge, see below:
The students gained
tremendous knowledge in
the nine major animal phyla,
demonstrating that the vast
majority succeeded in
meeting course goals; see
below:
The instructor teaching the course was
doing so for the first time and used the
same open-ended assessment previously
developed. Development of a less
subjective assessment will continue,
particularly with multiple instructors
teaching the course.
For Program, Discipline or Course Assessment Reports:
I have reviewed this report:
Melissa Deadmond
Department Chair
Ted Plaggemeyer
Dean
Date: June 3, 2011
Date: June 3, 2011
John Tuthill
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
Date August 23, 2011
Effect on Program, Discipline or Course
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Steve C. Schenk
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Summary of data for 9 Phyla from 16 students (omitting the one student who retook the course):
Phylum Name
Porifera (sponges)
Characteristics listed on the Pre-Assessment
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aquatic
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aquatic
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open circulatory system, aquatic
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live in water
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no bones, no organs, live in water
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Cnidaria (jellies)
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spongelike
they have many pores
pourous
aquatic dwelling, slow moving, slow growth rate
aquatic
porris, no brain
nothing
often found underwater
holes, sea life
pourous
porus, dry (on land) or under wawter, either soft or
hard to touch
I don’t know
mothing
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aquatic
aquatic
stingers, tentacles, aquatic
no bones, live in water, tentacles
no bones, live in water
nothing
they have no brains
no skeletal structure
aquatic dwelling, trentacles with defense mechanism,
translucent, use tentacles to catch prey
aquatic invertebrate
tentickles, jelly like texture
nothing
have no skeleton
jelly texture, transparent
no backbone
smooth, solid formed, could be clear, transparent or
colored, soft to touch
they have see-thru skin, no actual arms & legs
nothing
Characteristics listed on the Post-Assessment
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no true tissues, choanocytes
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no true tissues, made spongin spicules
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no true tissues, spongin or spicules, choanocyes, osculum
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no true tissues, osculum, choanocytes, spicules, amoebocytes
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no “true tissues”, must have spongin bodies, coenocytes, osculum, spicules,
sponecoel
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no true tissue, sponeocoel
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no true tissues, collar cells, spongecoel, osculum
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no true tissues, spongin
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no true tissues, osculum, choanocytes
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no true tissues, filter feeders
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no true tissues, spicule or spongin skeleton, osculum, pores
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no true tissue, live in marine & freshwater, hermaphroditic, suspension feeders
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lack true tissues, suspension feeders
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no true tissues, suspension feeders
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choanocytes, no true tissues
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sponges, lack organs & tissue
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no true tissues, spongin
sponges, “holy”, visually “fake” or plantlike
no true body tissue, open circulatory system
cnidocytes, polyp and medusa form,p spicules or spongin
cnidocytes with cnimatocysts, polyp and medusa form
diploblastic, tentacles, nemaotcysts, gastrovascular cavity
nematocysts, cnidocytes, radially symmetric, gastrovascular cavity
diploblastic, radially symmetric, medusa or polyp body forms, cnidcytes w/
nematocysts, no circ system
gastrovascular cavity, no circulatory system, nematocyst
diploblastic, gastrovascular cavity, nematocysts, choanocytes
no circulatory system
cnidocytes, medusa & polyp
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no circulatory system, gastrovascular cavity, cnidocytes, nematocysts
two different forms either polyp or medusa, diploblastic
lack a circulatory system, marine habitats, 1st stage of life in polyp form
diploblastic, radial symmetry, all marine/freshwater, polyp or medusa form
diploblastic, polyp or medusa, marine or freshwater, some colonial some solitary
jellies, nematocytes & cnidocytes, medusa and polyp forms
earthworm
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2 forms medusa /polyp, tentacles, no circulatory system, nemocytsts
jellyfish, corals, crayfish, some have tentacles
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Steve C. Schenk
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Nematoda (roundworms)
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nothing
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terrestrial
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no bones
no bones, no limbs, like soil
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brains
flat bodies
I am not familiar with this group.
parasitic
helmith, no eyes or mouthe
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have no skeleton
legs, eyes
flat
flat, rigid or smooth, long skinny, no eyes or anything,
could be microscopic
no arms or legs, live underground
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nothing
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terrestrial
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no bones; can reproduce body parts, live in earth
no bones, no limbs
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Mollusca (mollusks)
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nothing
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round bodies
unsure- some considered parasites?
parasitic
no eyes or mouthee, suckers, live off of other living
matter, helminth
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have no skeleton
no legs, likes dirt, soil, no eyes
round
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round, similar to flat worm, could be microscopic
no arms or legs
nothing
nothing
shells
hard shell covering; terrestrial & aquatic
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open circulatory system, anal and mouth are same, jellyfish, polup form
flattened body, acoelomate, gastrovascular cavity
flatworms, parasitic or free living, triploblastic-aceolomate
flat body, acoelomate, no circulatory system, light sensitive eye spots
flat, no segmentation
flatworms, gbilateral symmetry, triploblastic, acoelomate, gastrovascular cavity
flatworms, no circulatory system, mostly endoparasites
diploblastic, gastrovascular cavity, protonephridia
flat bodies, pseudoceolomates
thin body walls, no circulatory system, flatworms
flatworms, triploblastic, acoelomates, no circulatory system
some parasitic, flat shaped body, scolex for attachment in some
very flat, nutrients are obtained directly through skin, some parasitic, terrestrial &
freshwater
triploblastic, flat body, no circulatory system
parasitic, some scavengers, some predators
flat, double ventral nerve cords w/ ganglia, all cells in contact with environment
flat, pseudocoelomate, parasitic
flattened
flatworms
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roundworms, thick outer cuticle, mostly endoparasites, longitudinal muscle
cuticle covered – molts, longitudinal muscle, whips around to move
tough cuticle shed periodically, tapered body shape, longitudinal muscle only
only longitudinal muscle
roundworms, no segmentation, thick cuticle, longitudinal muscle, tapers at end,
pseudocoelomate
roundworm, tapers to a point, mostly parasitic, most need a host, cuticle like skin
cuticle covering, pseudocoelmate
non segmented, aceolomates, round worms
segmented worms, heartlike structures/pumps
round worms, free living or parasitic
pseudocoelomate, round/cylindrical body, tapers to an end, no segments
no segments, mostly parasitic, separate sexes
parasites, roundwomrs, longitudinal muscles
tapering to a fine tip, acoelomate, parasitic
roundworms, most abundant phyla on Earth, lengthwise segmentation, tough
cuticle
little rings, parasitic
parasitic
parasite , lack basic nervous & reproductive system, worms, feed off host
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visceral mass, mantle, muscular foot, hard exoskeleton
visceral mass, radula mantle cavity, foot
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Steve C. Schenk
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Annelida (segmented worms)
Arthropoda (includes insects)
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aquatic
hard exoskeletons, live in water
hard shells
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shells
2 shells on each side of body
unfamiliar
aquatic
shells, taste good
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have an outer shell
sea life form
shells
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not sure
“Nemo” movie
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terrestrial
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no bones, no limbs
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segmented
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linear gastro-intestinal system
body appears to have many different segments
unfamiliar
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helminth
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legs, eyes, big, large
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not sure
grow back
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exoskeleton
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hard shell covering
hard shells made of chitin
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lay eggs
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external or internal shell, visceral mass, mantle, muscular foot
foot, visceral mass, mantle, mantle cavity
muscular foot, visceral mass, mantle, radula is some
visceral mass, muscular foot, mantle, cephalopods only invert w/ closed circulatory
system
mantle tissue, visceral mass, muscular foot
shell present, reduced or gone, mantle, mantle cavity, tube feet
soft body, often utilize hard shells, muscular foot
muscular foot, radula, visceral mass, mantle
visceral mass & cavity, muscular foot, radula in some, most w/ shells
2 shelled organisms, mostly marine
have a foot, visceral mass, mantle, and sometimes protective shell
shell formations, mantle, radula, visceral mass
muscular foot, mantle, mouth & anus
hard exoskeleton
muscular foot, bivalve, shell, mantle
mussels, hard shell covering
multiple body segments, anal and mouth are separate
segments, chaetae
repeating segment, parapodia, chaetae, longitu and circular muscle
segmented bodies, some have closed circulatory system, chaetae, some
parapodia, longitudinal & circular muscle
segmentation
segmented worms, chaetae (bristles), some have parapodia, advanced
cephalization
segmented worms, chatae on some, pariapoda on some, closed circulatory
system
segmented worm, acoelomate, chaetae
segmented worms
cuticle covering body, complex life cycles involving 1+ hosts
segmented, chaeta, suction/attachment device, cuticle
segmented body, parapodia and/or chaetae, closed circulatory system
have cheate for moving, segmented worms, separate sexes
chaetae, parapodia, fused rings make up the body
series of fused rings
segmented bodyies (dorsal ventral)
cheatea, polyp & medusa, colonial forms
roundworms
worms, earth, round
body is divided in 3 segments
antennae, compound eyes (usually), usually 2 pr wings, 2-3 body segments,
specialized jointed appendages
chitin covered exoskeleton with jointed appendages, well dev. Sensory organs
jointed appendages, modified appendages for eating, sensory, etc., exoskeleton
made of chitin
jointed appendages
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Steve C. Schenk
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Echinodermata (sea stars)
Chordata (includes vertebrates)
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6 legs
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segmented bodies, six legs
many feet
several legs
exoskeleton
have legs, bone structure
nothing
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have exo-skeletons
legs (a lot)
6 legs
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have legs and eyes
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nothing
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hard covering
aquatic
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hard
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can regrow limbs
aquatic or near water, defense built into skin
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no brain, suction cups
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can regenerate, live underwater, slow moving
prickily, suction, sea life forms
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hard outer shell, don’t move fast
coral like
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have a spinal cord
rigid back bone
nothing
have backbones
bones, limbs
has a spine, bones
bones
have spines
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jointed appendage, sensory organs, exoskeleton made of chiton, body segments
chitonous exoskeleton, jointed appendages, body segmentation, open circulatory
system
jointed appendages, segmented bodies
jointed legs, ceolomates
jointed legs, often wings
segmented body, chelicerae, exoskeleton
segmented body, variety of diff. appendages, hard cutlice of chiton
body separated into 2 – 3 segments, body covered by hard surface, highly
specialized appendages
jointed legs, segmented bodies, specialized appendages
triploblastic, some have antenna, eyes, appendages, segmented
jointed legs, segmented bodies
jointed legs, segmentes, sensory antennae, feelers, etc .
jointed appendages, body segmentation, exoskeleton made of chiton
insects, pinchers, 8 legs, spiders, scorpions
have 2 pair walking appendages, two body segments
spiny skin, water vascular system (tube feet)
spiny skin, water vascular system, tube feet
spiny skinned, bilat symmetery in larvae, pentaradial symmetry in adults, tube feet,
water vascular system
water vascular system, tube feet
tube feet, spiny skin, water vascular system
water vascular system, tube feet
spiny skin, pena radial symmetry
spiny skin
spiney exoskeleton, bilaterally symmetric young w/ almost “radially” symmetric
adults, water vascular system
water vascular system, spiny, tube feet
water vascular system w/ tube feet, calcerous body w/ spikes
single shelled, specialized mantle, hard foot for holding onto rocks
nothing
triploblastic, marine and freshwater, tube feet
water vascular system, pentaradial symmetry (adult)
“spiny,” moss like
water vascular system, mantle
dogfish, complex respiratory, complex reproductive, sharks & fish, birds
open circulatory system, post anal and tail
hollow dorsal nerve cord, notochord, post anal tail, pharangeal clefts, gill slits
dorsal hollow nerve chord, pharyngeal gill slits, post anal tail, notochord
notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, post anal tail, pharyngeal gills/clefts
notochord, nerve cord, pharyngeal slits/clefts, post-anal tail
notochord, hollow dorsal nerve cord, post-anal tail, pharyngeal slits/clefts
notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, post anal tail, pharyngeal slits/clefts
notochord, hollow dorsal nerve chord, post anal tail, pharyngeal slits
dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, post anal tail
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201
School/Unit: SOSC
Submitted by: Steve C. Schenk
Academic Year: 2010-2011
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unfamiliar
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nothing
has a spinal cord
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nothing
have a backbone
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not sure
“pinchers”, hard shelled
nothing
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post-anal tail, notochord, dorsal hollow nerve chord
notochord, post-anal tail, hollow/dorsal chord, pharyngeal slits
notochord, post-anal tail, dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharingial slits/cleft
notochord, pharangeal slits, post anal tail, nerve cord
post-anal tail, hollow nerve chord, pharyngeal slits/cleft
pharnegal cleft/slit, notochord, post anal tail, skeleton cord for support
notochord, hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharangeal slits/clefts, post-anal muscular
tail
post-anal tail, dorsal hollow nerve cord, notochord
pharangeal gill slits, post anal tail
turtle, pig
anal and mouth, closed circulatory system