Spring 2013 Course SLO Review

HIST 17B - Modern US History - Stage 5 - Lillian Marrujo-Duck

Assessment

Assessment Methods	Pre & post surveys or tests
Assessment Description	History 17B instructors used a pre and post objective survey to measure student improvement in answering specific content questions.
Learning Outcomes	Previous SLOs tested - to be retested Spring 2013: B. Identify and evaluate major political events and trends, including federal-state relations, government regulation of the economy, the power of the president and executive branch compared to that of Congress, and important Supreme Court decisions. C. Identify, discuss, and evaluate the more important cultural, social, artistic, economic, and political aspects of American life as well as the role of the United States in world affairs. E. Explain major changes in the U.S. Economy, especially the transformations from agricultural to manufacturing to service industries. New SLO to be added: K. Analyze historical topics and the causes and consequences of events dealing with reconstruction, the trans-Mississippi west, the industrial revolution, immigration policies, the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil War; the 1950s; the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Era, the 1960s reform era, Nixon and Watergate, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama periods.
Number of Sections	2
Number of Instructors	1
Number of Students	41

Data Analysis

Data Shared With	Instructors of the same course (at CCSF) Faculty and staff within our department
Data Sharing Methods	Face-to-face meetings Email
Data Summary	PreSurvey Results: Question #1 = 74% correct Question #2 = 28% correct Question #3 = 19% correct Question #4 = 55% correct Question #5 = 57% correct Question #6 = 30% correct Question #7 = 22% correct Question #8 = 39% correct Question #9 = 29% correct Question #10 = 20% correct Post Survery Results: Question #1 = 63% correct Question #2 = 46% correct Question #3 = 46% correct Question #4 = 61% correct Question #5 = 88% correct Question #6 = 51% correct Question #7 = 46% correct Question #8 = 80% correct Question #9 = 39% correct Question #10 = 46% correct
Analysis Summary	Overall, student responses improved over the course of the semester. However, there is room for more improvement.
Next Steps Planned	Our faculty decided, since we all have a variety of pedagogical practices, to implement the changes that would be most effective in our particular courses. The possible changes include adding more detail to the course lectures, providing separate handouts on particular topics, including a greater level of detail in course packets and study guides, assigning outside of class responses to course material under review, switching from a lecture on a topic to an in-class group assignment on the same topic to see if this group activity is more effective.
Learning Outcomes	Previous SLOs tested - to be retested Spring 2013: B. Identify and evaluate major political events and trends, including federal-state relations, government regulation of the economy, the power of the president and executive branch compared to that of Congress, and important Supreme Court decisions. C. Identify, discuss, and evaluate the more important cultural, social, artistic, economic, and political aspects of American life as well as the role of the United States in world affairs. E. Explain major changes in the U.S. Economy, especially the transformations from agricultural to manufacturing to service industries. New SLO to be added: K. Analyze historical topics and the causes and consequences of events dealing with reconstruction, the trans-Mississippi west, the industrial revolution, immigration policies, the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil War; the 1950s; the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Era, the 1960s reform era, Nixon and Watergate, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama periods.

Changes

Details	Our faculty decided, since we all have a variety of pedagogical practices, to implement the changes that would be most effective in our particular courses. The possible changes include adding more detail to the course lectures, providing separate handouts on particular topics, including a greater level of detail in course packets and study guides, assigning outside of class responses to course material under review, switching from a lecture on a topic to an in-class group assignment on the same topic to see if this group activity is more effective.
Learning Outcomes	revious SLOs tested - to be retested Spring 2013: B. Identify and evaluate major political events and trends, including federal-state relations, government regulation of the economy, the power of the president and executive branch compared to that of Congress, and important Supreme Court decisions. C. Identify, discuss, and evaluate the more important cultural, social, artistic, economic, and political aspects of American life as well as the role of the United States in world affairs. E. Explain major changes in the U.S. Economy, especially the transformations from agricultural to manufacturing to service industries. New SLO to be added: K. Analyze historical topics and the causes and consequences of events dealing with reconstruction, the trans-Mississippi west, the industrial revolution, immigration policies, the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil War; the 1950s; the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Era, the 1960s reform era, Nixon and Watergate, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama periods.

Details

Our faculty decided, since we all have a variety of pedagogical practices, to implement the changes that would be most effective in our particular courses. The possible changes include adding more detail to the course lectures, providing separate handouts on particular topics, including a greater level of detail in course packets and study guides, assigning outside of class responses to course material under review, switching from a lecture on a topic to an in-class group assignment on the same topic to see if this group activity is more effective.

Learning Outcomes

revious SLOs tested - to be retested Spring 2013:

B. Identify and evaluate major political events and trends, including federal-state relations, government regulation of the economy, the power of the president and executive branch compared to that of Congress, and important Supreme Court decisions.

C. Identify, discuss, and evaluate the more important cultural, social, artistic, economic, and political aspects of American life as well as the role of the United States in world affairs.

E. Explain major changes in the U.S. Economy, especially the transformations from agricultural to manufacturing to service industries.

New SLO to be added:

K. Analyze historical topics and the causes and consequences of events dealing with reconstruction, the trans-Mississippi west, the industrial revolution, immigration policies, the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil War; the 1950s; the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Era, the 1960s reform era, Nixon and Watergate, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama periods.

Tentative Future Plans

Term	Fall 2013
Activities	Revision of outcomes and assessment methods (measurements) Assessment (measurement) of outcomes Analysis and discussion of assessment data and next steps Implementation of planned changes and reassessment
More Details	Faculty teaching History 1 will be meeting in August 2013 to review, discuss, and plan for improvement.

SLO Details Storage Location

HARD COPY - In my personal filing system (my office)

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