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Motlow State Community College
Program Student Learning Outcomes
Use of Assessment Results
Spring Semester 2014
Program Title: General Education, University Parallel Major
Course: HIST 1110
Expected Student Learning Outcomes:
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the development of distinctive features,
events, and institutions in World Civilizations I:
1. Ancient Mesopotamian civilization
2. Ancient Egyptian civilization
3. Ancient India(n) civilization
4. Ancient Chinese civilization
5. Ancient Hebrew civilization
6. Early Civilizations in the Americas
7. Islamic Civilization
8. Early Civilizations in Africa
9. Ancient Greek Civilization
10. Ancient Roman Civilization
Performance Measure(s):
Embedded Assessment
Effectiveness Standard: At least 70% of the students will answer the questions that
pertain to the student learning outcome correctly.
Sections Assessed:
CRN: 12082, 11972, & 11981
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Assessment Results:
Student Learning Outcome
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Question
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Percentage Correct
80
98
83
83
82
77
87
92
82
90
Use of Assessment Results:
Since the last assessment of HIST 1110 (Fall 2009), new embedded questions have been
developed so that each SLO is assessed by current Historical content. All involved instructors
felt that this makes the results more relevant and updated. Only three sections of this course
were randomly selected for general education core assessment purposes during the Spring 2014
semester. The benchmark of 70% correct was exceeded for every expected student learning
outcome. Regular and adjunct faculty teaching HIST 1110 were provided with these results and
discussion was encouraged. The faculty teaching this course are satisfied with the current SLOs
because they demonstrate the essence of the course. It was their opinion that changing the
SLOs or the assessment methodology is not necessary. Assessment results for this course have
been consistently strong since the first assessment in Fall 2009. Although both sets of results
surpassed the benchmark, the current results (Spring 2014) were significantly higher than past
results, indicating an improvement in teaching and learning methods. Comparisons to past
assessments of this course will continue to be monitored. With regard to SLO 6 (77% correct),
the instructors plan to dedicate additional class time to that SLO next year. It also has been
suggested by the department chair and full/part-time faculty that an electronic format of data
entry be used for the next cycle of embedded assessments. The current method requires the
chair to rely on manual data compilation and calculations, which is more prone to produce
errors.