SLO-Mapping Worksheet
Please reference the list of SLO sets on the following pages, and reference this information in the
worksheet while mapping your program’s SLOs to these sets of SLOs.
Lists and Descriptions of Student Learning Outcome Sets
Texas Core Curriculum Outcomes (for undergraduate programs only)
Critical Thinking Skills
To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of
information
Communication Skills
To include effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral,
and visual communication
Empirical and Quantitative Skills
To include the manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in
informed conclusions
Teamwork
To include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to
support a shared purpose or goal
Personal Responsibility
To include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making
Social Responsibility
To include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage
effectively in regional, national, and global communities
Texas A&M System Outcomes (for undergraduate programs only)
Communication
1. Communicate ideas effectively. Students will use multiple formats and technologies to
communicate ideas effectively in large and small group settings.
2. Apply fundamental writing strategies. Students will apply fundamental writing strategies such as
invention, drafting, revising, and editing to the development of effective academic/professional
written communication.
3. Deliver effective oral presentations. Students will deliver effective oral presentations in a variety
of settings.
4. Incorporate multiple informational resources. Students will demonstrate the ability to incorporate
multiple informational resources in projects and/or papers with appropriate citations).
Critical Thinking
1. Interpret, analyze, and evaluate. Students will interpret, analyze, and evaluate statements,
graphics, articles, and/or questions by:
a. Discriminating among different degrees of credibility, accuracy, and reliability of
inferences drawn from data
b. Recognizing assumptions in sources
2. Construct arguments. Students will construct well-supported, clearly articulated, and sustained
arguments.
3. Justify conclusions. Students will demonstrate an ability to justify conclusions based on
evidence.
Discipline-Specific Knowledge
1. Perform satisfactorily on licensure or certification exams. Students will perform satisfactorily on
licensure or certification exams necessary for professional status within their chosen careers,
where applicable.
2. Demonstrate skills required for success. Students will demonstrate skills required for success in
their discipline.
3. Identify and propose solutions. Students will identify and propose solutions to challenges or
problems within their field.
4. Identify, analyze, apply, and evaluate. Students will identify, analyze, apply, and evaluate
disciplinary theories and concepts.
Ethical Decision-Making and Social Responsibility
1. Articulate multiple cultural perspectives. Students will articulate multiple cultural perspectives in
local, national, and global communities.
2. Identify and analyze social and ethical challenges. Students will identify and analyze social and
ethical challenges, including possible resolutions.
Globalization and Cultural Diversity
1. Utilize multidisciplinary perspectives. Students will utilize multidisciplinary perspectives to
evaluate initiatives that have been employed to address global issues.
2. Describe the nature of global interdependence. Students will describe the nature of global
interdependence and its impacts.
3. Articulate an understanding of cultural differences. Students will articulate an understanding of
cultural differences from diverse perspectives in specific disciplines.
Integration of Broad Knowledge
1. Demonstrate mastery of the general education Core Curriculum. Students will demonstrate
mastery of the general education Core Curriculum.
2. Apply broad knowledge to academic disciplines. Students will apply broad knowledge to
academic disciplines, and professional or technical fields.
TAMUT Graduate Outcomes (graduate programs only)
Knowledge
Students must demonstrate knowledge of the literature of each discipline.
Engagement
Students must demonstrate ongoing engagement in research and/or appropriate professional
practice.
TAMUT Research Outcomes (required for graduate programs; optional for undergraduate
programs)
Upon graduation, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of or ability to conduct
research appropriate to their discipline and to the level of their degree
1. Students will be able to use research methodologies appropriate to their discipline.
2. Students will analyze their research and explain it to others in their field and to broader
audiences.
3. Students will identify and practice research ethics appropriate to their discipline.
TAMUT Service Outcomes (required for graduate programs; optional for undergraduate
programs)
Upon graduation, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of or engagement in service to
others.
1. Students will demonstrate ability to work across and within local to global community contexts
and structures to achieve a civic aim.
2. Students will reflect/evaluate on their own commitment to service in those community contexts.
Undergraduate SLO Mapping Worksheet
Briefly summarize/label your program’s SLOs in the left column (use additional pages to add more SLOs if needed). Work through
each SLO one at a time and place a check mark under each column that represents each component within a set of SLOs you will be
mapping to.
To learn how to map your program’s SLOS to each set of SLOs within Taskstream, please see the Taskstream User Guide on the
Assessment & Measurement Procedures webpage.
TAMU System SLOs
Student Learning
Outcome 1:
Student Learning
Outcome 2:
Student Learning
Outcome 3:
2.Broad Knowledge
Integration
of Broad
Knowledge
1.Mastery of Core
3.Cultural Differences
2.Global
Interdependence
Globalization and
Cultural Diversity
1.Multidisciplinary
Perspectives
2.Social / Ethical
Challenges
Ethical Decision
Making and
Social Resp.
1.Cultural
Perspectives
4.Identify, Analyze,
Apply, Evaluate
3.Solutions
2.Skills
Discipline Specific
Knowledge
1.Licensure/
Certification
3.Justify Conclusions
2.Construct
Arguments
1.Interpret, Analyze,
Evaluate
Critical Thinking
4.Multiple Sources
3.Oral Presentations
2.Writing Strategies
1.Communicate
Effectively
Communication
Undergraduate SLO Mapping Worksheet
Briefly summarize/label your program’s SLOs in the left column (use additional pages to add more SLOs if needed). Work through
each SLO one at a time and place a check mark under each column that represents each component within a set of SLOs you will be
mapping to.
To learn how to map your program’s SLOS to each set of SLOs within Taskstream, please see the Taskstream User Guide on the
Assessment & Measurement Procedures webpage.
Student Learning Outcome 2:
Student Learning Outcome 3:
Student Learning Outcome 4:
2.Reflect and
Evaluate
Commitment
(encouraged, but
optional for undergrad)
1.Work Across and
Within Community
(encouraged, but optional
for undergrad)
3.Ethics
TAMUT Service
SLOs
2.Analyze and
Explain
6.Social
Responsibility
5.Personal
Responsibility
4.Teamwork
3.Empirical and
Quantitative Skills
2.Communication
Skills
1.Critical Thinking
Skills
Student Learning Outcome 1:
TAMUT Research
SLOs
1.Methods
Texas Core SLOs
(for programs that teach in the core
curriculum)
Graduate SLO Mapping Worksheet
Briefly summarize/label your program’s SLOs in the left column (use additional pages to add more SLOs if needed). Work through
each SLO one at a time and place a check mark under each column that represents each component within a set of SLOs you will be
mapping to.
To learn how to map your program’s SLOS to each set of SLOs within Taskstream, please see the Taskstream User Guide on the
Assessment & Measurement Procedures webpage.
Graduate Outcomes
1.Knowledge
Student Learning Outcome 1:
Student Learning Outcome 2:
Student Learning Outcome 3:
Student Learning Outcome 4:
Student Learning Outcome 5:
Student Learning Outcome 6:
2.Engagement
TAMUT Research SLOs
1.Methods
2.Analyze
and Explain
3.Ethics
TAMUT Service SLOs
1.Work Across and
Within Community
2.Reflect and
Evaluate
Commitment