LA HARBOR COLLEGE Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Assessment Report Course Assessment Division: Humanities and Fine Arts Discipline/Program: Philosophy Course Number and Name: PHIL 006 Logic in Practice 7645 ONLINE Paul Greenberg Program Contact Person: David O’Shaughnessy Phone (310) 233-4429 Reviewed by: Elena Reigadas, SLO Assessment Coordinator Date: Fall 2013 Attach additional pages as necessary. Institutional Learning Outcomes 1 Course Intended Outcomes (1) The student will be able to distinguish between inductive and deductive arguments Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Summary of Data Collected 14/22 A-C range 64% Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 1 (2) The student will be able to recognize the most common informal fallacies Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions 16/23 A-C range 70% Use of Results Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. ONLINE Students need to be made aware of the fact that they have to study at least 10 hours a week.. Based on an informal survey, the vast majority, about 85%, of students are studying while doing other things, texting, talking on the phone, chatting online, listening to music, watching TV, playing video games, hence they are not focusing on the material they need to in order to be successful in class. ONLINE Students need to be made aware of the fact that they have to study at least 10 hours a week.. Based on an informal survey, the vast majority, about 85%, of students are studying while doing other things, texting, talking on the phone, chatting online, listening to music, watching TV, playing video games, hence they are not focusing on the material they need to in order to be successful in class. 1 1 (3) The student will be able to reduce arguments to their skeletal structure Means: Written assessment (4) The student will be able to define the 25 core vocabulary words of the course. Means: Written vocabulary test consisting of 25 words. 13/19 A to C range 68% ONLINE Students need to be encouraged to communicate questions to the professor much more frequently. Even though I list a phone number where I can be reached, I received no calls, nor did I receive more than two enquiries throughout the semester. Did not test directly for this. 18/22 A to C range 82% This material is the easiest in the course, as evidence by the statistics. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 1 (5) The student will be able to distinguish between the major uses of language – (I.E. emotive, informative, directive, connotative, denotative, prescriptive, descriptive, metaphoric, etc.). Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Spring2013 Attach additional pages as necessary. Institutional Learning Outcomes 1 Course Intended Outcomes (1) The student will be able to distinguish between inductive and deductive arguments Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Summary of Data Collected 47/59: 83% of students scored at least 70% on the assessment. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 1 (2) The student will be able to recognize the most common informal fallacies Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions 38/61: 62% of students scored at least 70%. Criteria were not met. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment 1 1 (3) The student will be able to reduce arguments to their skeletal structure Means: Written assessment (4) The student will be able to define the 25 core vocabulary words of the course. Means: Written vocabulary test consisting of 25 words. Use of Results Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. Students need to be made aware of the fact that they have to study 3 hours at home for every 1 hour in class. Based on an informal survey, the vast majority, about 85%, of students are studying while doing other things, texting, talking on the phone, chatting online, listening to music, watching TV, playing video games, hence they are not focusing on the material they need to in order to be successful in class. Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. Students need to be made aware of the fact that they have to study 3 hours at home for every 1 hour in class. Based on an informal survey, the vast majority, about 85%, of students are studying while doing other things, texting, talking on the phone, chatting online, listening to music, watching TV, playing video games, hence they are not focusing on the material they need to in order to be successful in class. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Criteria: 70% of students should score at 100/121: 83% of students scored at least 70% on assessment test. Give tests early in semester and inform students that if they do not perform well on these tests they will be dropped. least 70% on the assessment. 1 (5) The student will be able to distinguish between the major uses of language – (I.E. emotive, informative, directive, connotative, denotative, prescriptive, descriptive, metaphoric, etc.). Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Make a tests count very heavily towards a grade and students will tend to perform better on them, as long as they only have to memorize material and not analyze anything. Fall 2012 Attach additional pages as necessary. Institutional Learning Outcomes 1 Course Intended Outcomes (1) The student will be able to distinguish between inductive and deductive arguments Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Summary of Data Collected 10/26 A-C range 38% Ave Score 92 57% Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 1 (2) The student will be able to recognize the most common informal fallacies Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions 1 (3) The student will be able to reduce arguments to their skeletal structure Means: Written assessment Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Use of Results Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. Students do seem to be able to retain information from the beginning of semester to the end of the semester, as they perform better on material closest to final. 16/26 A-C range 62% AVE Score 68% Students need to be made aware of the fact that they have to study 3 hours at home for every 1 hour in class. Based on an informal survey, the vast majority, about 85%, of students are studying while doing other things, texting, talking on the phone, chatting online, listening to music, watching TV, playing video games, hence they are not focusing on the material they need to in order to be successful in class. Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. Students need to be made aware of the fact that they have to study 3 hours at home for every 1 hour in class. Based on an informal survey, the vast majority, about 85%, of students are studying while doing other things, texting, talking on the phone, chatting online, listening to music, watching TV, playing video games, hence they are not focusing on the material they need to in order to be successful in class. 1 (4) The student will be able to define the 25 core vocabulary words of the course. Means: Written vocabulary test consisting of 25 words. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 1 (5) The student will be able to distinguish between the major uses of language – (I.E. emotive, informative, directive, connotative, denotative, prescriptive, descriptive, metaphoric, etc.). Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 21/27 A-C range 78% AVE. Score 121/150 80% Make a tests count very heavily towards a grade and students will tend to perform better on them, as long as they only have to memorize material and not analyze anything. October 2010 Attach additional pages as necessary. Institutional Learning Outcomes 1 Course Intended Outcomes (1) The student will be able to distinguish between inductive and deductive arguments Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions 1 (2) The student will be able to recognize the most common informal fallacies 1 (3) The student will be able to reduce arguments to their skeletal structure Means: Written assessment (4) The student will be able to define the 25 core vocabulary words of the course. Means: Written vocabulary test consisting of 25 words. 1 Summary of Data Collected 26/37 A-C range 70% Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. 26/37 A-C range 70% Suggest English 28 be adopted as a prerequisite. Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 30/37 A-C range 81% Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. 1 (5) The student will be able to distinguish between the major uses of language – (I.E. emotive, informative, directive, connotative, denotative, prescriptive, descriptive, metaphoric, etc.). Means: Common multiple-choice exam consisting of 20 questions Criteria: 70% of students should score at least 70% on the assessment. Use of Results 32/37 A-C range 86%