GIS 110 - Intro to GIS - Stage 5 - Elizabeth Proctor
Assessment
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| Assessment Description | Compared students' responses on final exams between Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. Specifically in the category of "raster" and "vector" GIS data, I noticed a dropoff in the quality of students' ability to provide good examples of typical raster datasets vs vector datasets in the Spring 2013 results. |
| Learning Outcomes | A. Describe the types of applications which lend themselves to a GIS. B. Identify commonly used GIS data formats. |
| Number of Sections | 1 |
| Number of Instructors | 1 |
| Number of Students | ~30 |
Data Analysis
| Data Shared With | Faculty and staff within our department |
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| Data Summary | 100% of the students in Fall 2012 provided satisfactory examples of raster vs vector GIS data on their final exam, while 6 out of 26 students gave wrong examples of raster vs vector data in Spring 2013. |
| Analysis Summary | This is a core concept in GIS data understanding, and 100% of the students should be able to give appropriate examples of these data types. |
| Next Steps Planned | I will emphasize this as an important core concept and prompt in class for student discussion around what makes a good example of each kind of dataset, and why. |
| Learning Outcomes | Refer to previous answers. |
Changes
| Details | Minor corrections to printed course materials to reflect new and validated locations of datasets on the internet, and to reflect slight changes in GIS technology that have occurred. |
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| Learning Outcomes | Refer to previous answers. |
Tentative Future Plans
| Term | Fall 2013 |
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| Activities | Implementation of planned changes and reassessment |
| More Details | Modify lecture content to foster student discussion and processing of content in real time. |
SLO Details Storage Location
ELECTRONIC COPY - In my electronic filing system (hard drive or web server)