INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS COMMITTEE
(Formerly I/SLO Committee)
2010 – 2011 YEAR END REPORT
PROJECTS COMPLETED
1. SLOs are now firmly embedded in both Curriculum and Program Review.
The Committee has checked all the SLOs, their methods of assessment,
and their mapping to both program and institutional outcomes of courses
that went through Program Review this year and all new courses
submitted for approval to the Curriculum Committee.
2. Almost all course SLOs are now in ISIS and all those in ISIS are mapped to
our four Institutional Learning Outcomes and, specifically, to the core
competencies of those ILOs.
3. Almost all departments are assessing course SLOs, and therefore, the core
competencies of the ILOs to which they are mapped,
4. Instructors are inputting their assessment results into ISIS through use of
the SLO Rosters that are now available on their portal page. Student
assessment data is, therefore, tied to student id numbers.
5. The Office of Institutional Research generated data reports following the
Fall 2010 semester. Every department was given a report showing the
percent of students in their courses meeting the SLOs. A report was also
disseminated to the Chairs showing student success on the ILO Core
Competencies aggregated across the entire institution. This report
provides an excellent snapshot of how well our students are doing on
such competencies as critical thinking, quantitative analysis, knowledge
acquisition, and skill development.
6. All of the Student Services have SLOs and all are assessing these SLOs.
7. Administrative Unit Outcomes are now viewed as tied more to the
Supporting Goals of the College than to either students directly or the
Institutional Learning Outcomes. Administrative Units are encouraged to
identify their objectives and to assess their success in meeting those
objectives.
8. The Committee has been actively engaged in the CurricUNET design
process and, more specifically, in the design of a Program Review module
that will be built within CurricUNET in the next academic year.
9. Ideally, the S/ILO process should lead to discussion, innovation, and
change. That has certainly been the case this year. For example, as the
Business Department began inputting their SLOs into ISIS and as they did
their mapping to the ILOs, they discovered the need for a new, fifth
competency under ILO # 4: Optimize the use of resources through cost
containment and sustainability analysis. The Committee responded by
adding this competency into the system.
RECOMMENDED OBJECTIVES FOR 2011 – 2012
1. The SLO Rosters need to be fine-tuned. In the summer of 2011, the
Committee will work on the following improvements:
A. ISIS will generate an SLO Report just like the TIMS Report that
would be available to the Chairs in ISIS. It would give the % of
students succeeding on each SLO by section and overall for the
course (aggregating across all sections of that course).
B. Each faculty member will have a TIMs like report available on
their portal page. It will show their retention and success rates as
well as the % of each of his/her class section succeeding on each
SLO . The mean success rate for all courses in the department will
also be shown.
C. On the SLO Rosters, for each individual student there will be a
button that says, "Meets all SLOs" or "Doesn't Meet any SLOs.
2 The Program Review module within CurricUNET needs to be built
including the data tables with SLO Assessment results cross tabulated
with a variety of student level variables: online - on ground, class time,
English level, Math level, race, gender, and semester in college.
3. Student Service SLOs need to be revisited. Beginning in June 2011, the
Committee will be meeting with all of the Student Services specifically to
rewrite their SLOs to include a context (e.g., “After two semesters in Black
Collegians”), the outcome, and the method of assessment.
4. A new system will be built in ISIS to house the Student Service outcomes
and their mapping to the ILOs.
5. A new system will be built in ISIS to house the Administrative Unit
Outcomes and their mapping to the College’s Supporting Goals.
6. The Committee will come up with a scorecard and benchmarks/targets
for the next Institutional Effectiveness Report that is due November
2011.
7. The Committee will need to revisit Program Outcomes. It was decided
this year that a “program” is one that awards either a certificate or a
degree. It was further decided that the SLOs of the capstone courses of
these programs would act as the Program SLOs. As the College is now
in the process of formulating AA Transfer degrees in fields such as
Political Science and Math, which do not have capstone classes, we will
need to decide what their outcomes are. Perhaps the best
recommendation is to consider the actual earning of the certificate or
degree to be the outcome of the program. We could then look at the
relationships between student success on SLOs in courses taken in
pursuance of the degree and the attainment of that degree.
LONG TERM OBJECTIVES
1. A College culture of data driven decision-making needs to be cultivated
and fostered. The SLO and ILO assessment data will need to be fully
integrated into the yearly Program Reviews. Departments and Programs
will need to base their suggestions for improvement and their call for
resources on these data. Then the conclusions and suggestions made in
Program Review will need to filter up to the appropriate committees of
DPAC.
2. Departments, Programs, and Student Services must be continually
encouraged to revisit their SLOs and AOUs (Administrative Unit
Outcomes) and their assessments.
3. Indicators of Institutional Effectiveness beyond S?ILO data must be
sought and used in our yearly reports and in our institutional planning.