September 3, 2014
DRAFT
SLOAC
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES
Committee Members in Attendance:
Yolanda Bellisimo, Sara McKinnon, Blaze Woodlief, Fernando Agudelo-Silva, Beth
Patel, Robert.McCoy, Cara Kreit, John.Erdmann, Derek Levy, Steven Newton, Chris
Myers
Absent: Jessica Park, Robert Ovetz, Anne Gearhart, Tonya Hersch, Becky Brown
Note: Christina Leimer will replace Chris Myers on SLOAC as the PRIE representative.
I.
Review WASC requirements for SLOs in the new standards
In the updated WASC standards, accountability for SLOs appears in Standard I and
Standard II. The committee reviewed the new standards and discussed evidence we will
need to gather to demonstrate our SLO work.
Sara noted that the identification and assessment of SLO is required on the COR and
Dong has them listed on line for every course. The committee discussed whether chairs
should be alerted to require a syllabus for every section be placed in the department
office.
II.
Review of Student Learning Outcomes section of the full program reviews
Last spring, Sara passed out the SLO sections and the Point of Improvement sections of
the full program review for review by SLOAC members. Each committee member took
a program or programs to review and comment on. Committee members responded to
the SLOs and Point of Improvement sections and returned comments and suggestions to
Sara who made them available to the programs. The problem was the SLOAC comments
were about the writing of the section more than the substance of the report of SLOs.
The committee agreed that SLOAC should have a dialog with programs about SLOs and
what and how they are using them. All programs/departments will be asked to submit the
SLO department meeting prompt once completed.
The committee also discussed how a follow-up discussion would be held with programs
that completed the full program review in the previous year. There are 18 programs we
would need to ask about SLO to determine what has been the dialog within the program.
The committee discussed the possibility of holding meetings across disciplines with an
SLOAC member there. We could take questions #2 and #3 to department meetings and
involve the program in a dialogue with a SLOAC member taking notes. It was decided
instead that we would invite programs, perhaps two at a time and across disciplines, to a
SLOAC meeting and conduct the interview/discussion at the meeting.
At the next SLOAC meeting English Skills and Social Sciences will be invited to discuss
their SLO and point of improvement sections from last year’s program reviews. The
committee discussed the tenor for how that discussion should be held and the types of
questions or prompts that should come from the committee. Questions and prompts
included:
 How can the committee help you (the program) with the SLO section of the
program review?
 What kind of evidence does your department/program use to determine areas
where students are not meeting standards?
 Have interventions been tested to determine their impact? What tools or tests
were used?
 Can the program give examples of findings from SLO research and resultant
interventions?
 What is the most useful data for your program for researching outcomes?
 What are the obstacles? What challenges do you have when gathering outcomes
evidence?
 What support do you need in doing this work?
 Did your program/discipline use the common rubrics – which ones?
III.
Review of Department/Discipline SLO Matrices
The committee reviewed which departments/disciplines had updated their template and
which appeared on the SLO web page as updated. The committee reviewed the list of the
remaining programs and divided up those that will be contacted. The goal is to have all
of them updated on the web page this semester.
IV.
Set Meeting Dates
It was agreed that the committee will meet the first Wednesday of each month for this
school year. Meetings will be held from 3:10 to 4 PM.
V.
Old or New Business
The October meeting will include presentations/discussions about program review SLOs
with Social Sciences, College Skills, and English/Humanities. Cara will contact College
Skills and English/Humanities about attending the meeting. Yolanda will present for
Social Sciences.