English Department SLO Highlights and Recent History . . .
Spring ’15 Outcomes to be Assessed and Disaggregated
Course
English L
SLO
Description
Write one essay that uses key structural elements of academic writing:
introduction, body, and conclusion.
Compose organized and coherent essays that demonstrate basic proficiency in
critical thinking.
Write convincing paragraphs using evidence and explanation.
English 91
B
English 92
B2
English 93
English 96
B (on
the
new
CO)
B
English 1A
B
English 1B
B
English 1C
A
English 16
English 26
English 30A
B
C
ABCD
English 35A
C
English 35B
C
English 35C
B
English 35D
B
Compose and revise poems containing imagery, alliteration, assonance, types of
rhyme and figurative language.
English 35L
B
English 35M
B
English 46C
ABCD
Recognize criteria for analyzing and evaluating literary magazines for editorial
vision, artistic principles, literary trends, and cultural contexts at an introductory
level.
Analyze college and professional level literary magazines for editorial and
stylistic issues and cultural
Demonstrate familiarity with the major genres, themes, and textual concerns of
the period.
Analyze individual texts in relation to the significant historical, cultural, and/or
social issues of the era.
Compose organized text-based essays that demonstrate critical thinking and
revision strategies.
Compose organized and coherent source-based essays that demonstrate critical
thinking.
Compose organized and coherent source-based essays that demonstrate critical
thinking and rhetorical strategies
Synthesize critical reading, academic research, and cultural contexts in writing
about literature
Construct argumentative essays with attention to audience, exigency, and
constraint, synthesizing from multiple sources.
Compose take-home essays using key structural elements of an academic essay
Create sentences largely free of verb and pronoun errors.
Demonstrate familiarity with the major genres, themes, and textual concerns of
the period.
Analyze individual texts in relation to the significant historical, cultural, and/or
social issues of the era.
Analyze the content and formal structures of the text.
Integrate textual evidence and literary criticism when writing essays on key
works of the era.
Appraise works-in-progress, sharing basic-level critiques with peers in a
workshop setting in appropriate, constructive ways.
Appraise works-in-progress, sharing substantive critiques with members of a
writing workshop in appropriate, constructive ways.
Compose poems containing, at a basic level, elements of craft.
English 52
B
&/or
C
English 58
B &/or
Analyze the content and formal structures of the text.
Integrate textual evidence and literary criticism when writing essays on key
works of the era.
Analyze individual texts to assess ways that Shakespeare's use of language
specifically shapes the psychology and life of characters as well as the larger
themes of the play.
Demonstrate, in writing and discussion, an application of literary techniques and
poetic devices, including elements such as plot structure and scene
development or meter, diction, metaphor.
Analyze individual texts in relation to political, historical and cultural contexts
from which the texts have emerged
C
Analyze the content and formal structures of representative literature by
contemporary women writers
Fall 2014 SLO Assessments: Updates, Blurbs, and Highlights
Summer 2014 Accelerated Learning Program Data Analysis
and 9293 Reading Comprehension/Summary Skills Assessment Analysis
Accreditation Timeline: English Department Data Regarding Standard IIA
Fall 2013 SLO Assessments: Updates, Blurbs, and Highlights
Fall 2012 English and Humanities SLO Assessments
English L
English 9
English 19
English 26
English 91
English 9293
English 93
English 96
English 1A
English 1B
English 1C
Humanities 7
Humanities 20
Surveys and Research Briefs
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Student Voices on Instruction and the English Sequence: Student Survey, May
2010
English L: Student Backgrounds and Needs, July 2011
English Lab Survey, Fall 2012 and Fall 2013 / Winter 2014
Past Assessments
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English 90 and 91 Portfolio
Assessment: Longitudinal Analysis
English 92 Reading Skills at Entry
English 92: Assessment after
Course Redesign
English 94 Essay
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English 93 and 95X Common Essay
Scoring
English 96 Common Summary
Analysis
English 961A Analytic Scoring, May
2011
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English 93: Common Essay
Members of the
English Department
gather for a festive
February SLO session!
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English 1A Analytic Scoring, May
2011