Spring 2013 Course SLO Review

AMSL 1A - Elementary Sign Language - Stage 5 - Matthew Parkhurst

Assessment

Assessment Methods	Analysis of exam, quiz, or homework items linked to specific SLOs
Assessment Description	Receptive Fingerspelling Quiz, Informal in-class assessment
Learning Outcomes	Expressively produce and receptively identify fingerspelled words using the American Manual Alphabet.
Number of Sections	4
Number of Instructors	2
Number of Students	~100

Changes

Details	Students need more preparation at the beginning of the semester in both expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills. One major assignment has been added to ensure students’ expressive fingerspelling proficiency, and additional formal assessments in the form of receptive quizzes have been added. been added. 1. Students will research using the internet to find a PANGRAM – a sentence that contains all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Students will prepare to fingerspell their sentence for the class at the second class meeting. 2. The department has been working with a developer who has created a receptive fingerspelling assessment. Using the internet or mobile device app, students are shown random fingerspelled words at varying speeds (slow, medium, fast, and Deaf). The fingerspelling tool can be set to a fixed number of characters (word length) at 3, 4, 5, 6, or random. At this point, we will use this tool during formal, in-class assessments (receptive fingerspelling quizzes) where students can view the tool as a class as it is projected onto a screen in the classroom and record their answers on paper. This tool is now ready and available to be incorporated into our “Moodle” online learning environment, and can record students’ progress scores. Instructors will be able to pre-determine a benchmark that students must achieve as part of their coursework. This assessment can be viewed at asl.ms
Learning Outcomes	Refer to previous answer

Details

Students need more preparation at the beginning of the semester in both expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills. One major assignment has been added to ensure students’ expressive fingerspelling proficiency, and additional formal assessments in the form of receptive quizzes have been added.

been added.

1. Students will research using the internet to find a PANGRAM – a sentence that contains all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Students will prepare to fingerspell their sentence for the class at the second class meeting.

2. The department has been working with a developer who has created a receptive fingerspelling assessment. Using the internet or mobile device app, students are shown random fingerspelled words at varying speeds (slow, medium, fast, and Deaf). The fingerspelling tool can be set to a fixed number of characters (word length) at 3, 4, 5, 6, or random. At this point, we will use this tool during formal, in-class assessments (receptive fingerspelling quizzes) where students can view the tool as a class as it is projected onto a screen in the classroom and record their answers on paper. This tool is now ready and available to be incorporated into our “Moodle” online learning environment, and can record students’ progress scores. Instructors will be able to pre-determine a benchmark that students must achieve as part of their coursework. This assessment can be viewed at asl.ms

Learning Outcomes

Refer to previous answer

Tentative Future Plans

Term	Fall 2014
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	We will address an additional SLO to be determined.

SLO Details Storage Location

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

Additional Highlights

The department has been working with a developer who has created a receptive fingerspelling assessment. Using the internet or mobile device app, students are shown random fingerspelled words at varying speeds (slow, medium, fast, and Deaf). The fingerspelling tool can be set to a fixed number of characters (word length) at 3, 4, 5, 6, or random. At this point, we will use this tool during formal, in-class assessments (receptive fingerspelling quizzes) where students can view the tool as a class as it is projected onto a screen in the classroom and record their answers on paper. This tool is now ready and available to be incorporated into our “Moodle” online learning environment, and can record students’ progress scores. Instructors will be able to pre-determine a benchmark that students must achieve as part of their coursework. This assessment can be viewed at asl.ms

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