EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Office of the Vice President – Academic Affairs
NOTES – 9 March 2009
Assessment of Learning Committee (ALC)
Present: J. Simon L. Kjeseth, L. Gallucci, C. Gold, R. Bergeman, D. Thompson, K. LaureanoRibas, R. Lewis, K. Holt, C. Striepe, D. Maruyama, D. Goldberg, I. Graff
I. Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:35 p.m.
II. ACCJC Recommendations:
At the last meeting, the committee discussed the ACCJC recommendations on SLOs based
on its site visit. A report on Recommendation 2 is due to the ACCJC on 10/15/09. L.
Kjeseth recommended the draft be completed by end of the spring semester, review the final
draft on flex day in the fall and present at the September Board meeting.
At the April meeting, a list will be available of programs which have a complete timeline and
those that do not. By spring, the bulk will have a draft, refined and put in a published format
by spring. L. Kjeseth would like to have SLOs and assessment built into the overarching
college timeline, which will integrate program review, course review, and outcome
assessment. It will need to be completed by fall. The three cycles are: (1) assessment of
learning; (2) curriculum review, and (3) program review.
Timelines were due last semester but will be extended to the spring semester. L. Kjeseth will
forward the timeline to committee members by March 12.
The ACCJC standards measure what the College is doing. The three rubrics: (1) program
review and budget; (2) curriculum; and (3) SLO.
Listed below is the planning grid for the ACCJC recommendations:
College-wide
timeline for meeting
proficiency level by
end of 2011
Increasing
participation and
pace, and making
more “experts”
available
Who
Coordinators
ALC Reps
Div-Level SLO
Reps
Deans
Fac/Staff in general
Coordinators
ALC reps
Next steps
Outcome
follow up with
published timeline
program-determined online
timelines and make a
database/table of all
timelines
-trainings during
Assessment of
Student Learning
Week
-send more people to
Strengthening
-empowered
division-level SLO
committees with
reps from each
program
Involving more
CEC faculty
Adding a
“technological and
computer literacy”
core competency
““
Publicizing learning
outcomes and
assessment results
to students and the
public
Compensation for
adjunct faculty to
participate in all
aspects of SLO
design and
assessments
Creating time for
faculty to work on
SLO design and
assessments
Design first core
competency
college-wide
assessment
not discussed yet
ALC subcommittee
Student Success
conference
-make sure Compton
faculty are included
-decide if a separate
core competency is
needed or may
integrate into
already-existing
competencies
“ “
draft of rewritten
core competencies
not discussed yet
not discussed yet
not discussed yet
III. Rubric
A rubric helps to clarify what a good SLO and assessment proposal is. Assessment proposals
of sample SLOs were provided to analyze on the rubric. For the next meeting, the committee
was asked to rate it against the rubric for the following: Anthropology, Writing, Literature,
Basic Writing, CIS. There are two program SLOs and three course SLOs.
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