Palomar College
General Education/Institutional
Learning Outcomes
Overview
Fall, 2015
Assessments
2012-2015
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Information Literacy, Spring 2012
Critical and Creative Thinking, Spring 2012
Critical Thinking, Spring 2013
Oral Communication, Spring 2013
Quantitative Literacy, Spring 2014
Written Communication, Fall 2014
Intercultural Competency, Spring 2015
Information Literacy
• 48% of students who have completed 45 units at
Palomar College are proficient in information
literacy.
• Over 50% of all students assessed scored either
proficient or exemplary on each of the first four
competencies (define, access, evaluate and use
information).
• Less than half (42.5%) of the students assessed at
proficiency on using information ethically (citing
sources).
Information Literacy
Critical & Creative Thinking
• 56% of those students earned an overall score
of proficient or exemplary.
• Older students performed better than
younger students
• Students scores improved with number of
units completed up to 30 units. Then there
was a slight decline.
Critical & Creative Thinking
• Put together workgroup to rethink rubric
• Assessed just critical thinking again – the
following year.
• Professional development workshops each
semester
Oral Communication
• 70% of those students scored at proficient or
above.
• Younger students scored better than older
students.
• Asian students scored lower than white and
Hispanics students.
Oral Communication
• Professional development workshop on
teaching oral communication & presentation
skills in the non-speech classroom
• We would like to offer a series in the TLC on
how to overcome communication
apprehension
Quantitative Literacy
• No difference in performance by gender
• White, Non-Hispanic student group performed
better on average than Hispanic student group
• Youngest students 18-19 did not perform as
well on average as older students
Quantitative Literacy
• Created workgroup to develop quantitative
literacy resources for students and faculty.
• Group met in June and discussed some of the
challenges facing students and faculty.
• John Harland presented an extensive list of
resources that faculty could use in their classes.
• John is working with some of the faculty
members to develop some tailored resources for
their courses.
Written Communication
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81.2% Competent / More than Competent
Results varied by subgroup
Women received more “Superior” ratings
30+ students received more “Superior” ratings
White, Non Hispanic and multi-ethnic tended to
receive higher ratings
• Students with more units had slightly higher
ratings
• Strengths -Context and purpose, critical thinking,
overall structure
• Weaknesses - Grammar and punctuation
Written Communication
Ideas for Action:
• Need to form a workgroup to develop ideas below
• Every class should have a writing assignment
• Encourage revisions
• Sentence level problems - gather resources – web sites
• Remind faculty to send students to writing center
• Workshops on specific areas - weaknesses
• Faculty forum – discussing areas of concern
• Offer PD Workshops for faculty -- how to improve
writing in your classroom & writing a rubric
Intercultural Competency
• Assessments varied across the six factors.
• 53.7%-60.5% of students rated “Proficient” /
“Exemplary”
• Results varied across demographic categories
• Gender – Overall women rated higher on “Empathy”
• Age - 30+ students received proportionately more
“Exemplary” ratings
• Units – All over the board, small trend for students
with higher units. Again use caution when interpreting
results.
Intercultural Competency
Ideas for Action:
• Rubric was difficult to use. Consider using e-portfolios
in the future.
• Norming needs further refinement.
• Expand a cultural awareness to an institutional
awareness – faculty, staff, administrators
• PD training for faculty and staff, to model and teach
intercultural competence.
• Investigate a resource center for undocumented
students.
• Align and promote the courses that meet the multicultural requirement
GE/ILO tasks for 2015-2016
• Follow-up with Quantitative literacy resources,
reconsider modules
• Put workgroup together for written
communication to tackle suggestions for
action
• Put workgroup together for intercultural
competency to tackle suggestions for action
• Work with PD and Student Equity on Spring
Equity Event
GE/ILO tasks for 2015-2016 continued
• Develop workshop for Communication
Apprehension for TLC
• Evaluate the Dashboard
• Assess Digital Literacy Spring 2016
• Research Integrative Learning and consider if
there is a way to develop an assessment or
approach to an assessment that would evaluate
the entire category of Integrative Learning and
Personal and Social Responsibility