Assessment of Learning Committee Meeting Minutes – April 27, 2010
In Attendance: Jenny Simon, Chelvi Subramaniam, Christina Gold, Donna Grogan, Rebecca Bergeman,
Jim Noyes, Kaysa Laureano-Ribas, Ray Lewis, Harrison Storms, Kelly Holt, Claudia Striepe, Barbara Jaffe,
Jean Shankweiler, Irene Graff
I) Course SLO Deadline – passed 4/23/10
 Across the college, we are at 93% of courses with an SLO. The agenda contains the statistics for
completion rates by Division, in addition to a list of the missing course SLOs.
 Industry and Technology is working on having adjuncts write and submit their SLOs. Ray Lewis is
following through on the individual courses and editing adjunct work.
 In HSA, Kelly Holt is working with rad tech and is pushing faculty to turn in the SLOs they have
already written but not reported. HSA held several SLO workshops and only a few people
showed up. Turn over in Deans and leadership has made the process difficult.
 In Fine Arts, Harrison Storms will speak to the Dean about Art 109, a new class.
 In Business, Donna Grogan will check on the missing classes.
II) Core Competency Assessment
 “SLO” questions will be included on the the student campus climate survey which will be
administered on-line in the next couple weeks. Students will be contacted through their campus
email. Questions 19-22 will focus on SLOs
 Questions may also be added to other student surveys conducted on a bi-yearly basis.
 A draft of a separate student survey focused on “Communication and Comprehension” is in the
agenda.
 This Communication and Comprehension survey will be a paper survey conducted in class.
Classes which were mapped to C & C will be selected randomly for surveying.
 Discussion of the Communication and Comprehension survey draft
o This brief, 3 question survey will be easy for faculty to administer and students to
complete.
o Draft changes were discussed and the questions were finalized.
o The questions measure students’ perception of their competence in these areas, but will
be triangulated with their grades to check for accuracy in students’ perceptions.
o Irene Graff suggested that the questions could be tested in classes for student feedback.
III) Data Analysis Training
 Jenny is preparing data analysis training workshops for faculty.
 It was suggested that the workshops define success and retention and explain how outcomes
can be added in response to the data.
 There is concern that these workshops have low attendance.