DSPS 4305 - High School Level Learning Strategies - Stage 5 - Maral Good
Assessment
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| Assessment Description | Students completed pretest survey on entry to class to assess awareness of learning style and strategies. An example yes/no question would be: "Do you know your learning style?" Students later completed a narrative, assignment describing their learning style and identifying strategies to use. Sample questions include: "How does this learning style fit you?" and "How do you learn best?" After selecting and applying a strategy to an assignment, students completed a postest survey which included questions such as asking the student to describe how the strategy was helpful, if it was a good strategy for their learning style, and if they would use that strategy again. |
| Learning Outcomes | All |
| Number of Sections | all |
| Number of Instructors | 1 |
| Number of Students | 89 completed at least one part |
Data Analysis
| Data Shared With | Faculty and staff within our department |
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| Data Summary | 90% of Students independently completed narrative self assessment of learning styles identifying and describing their learning styles, which was up from 65% of students who identified their own learning style on the first day survey. 83% of students who stayed in the class and had 16 or more hours of attendance completed at least one post-use survey. Out of those completed surveys, 99% indicated that the strategy chosen and applied was helpful and fit their learning style and they would use it again. |
| Analysis Summary | Students have achieved significant progress with SLO 1 if they can independently give a narrative description identifying and describing their own learning styles and needs. Completion of one or more post-use survey strategies indicating that chosen strategies were helpful and met their learning style indicates outcome achievement for the second SLO within the current semester's assignments. Overall, 90% of the class was able to at least partially achieve learning outcome 1, and 45% of all students enrolled in the class showed achievement in learning outcome 2. (82% of the students who remained in the class past 16 hours of attendance). But only 25% of students completed more than one post-use strategy. The data suggests that students are not adapting new strategies quickly, not trying out many new strategies, or not following through on the strategies completed. |
| Next Steps Planned | Next semester, 3 changes are planned for this course: 1) every task students work on in the class will require that students indicate the strategy attempted or applied . 2) Additional reference materials on strategies will be developed for individual, spontaneous review. 3) The weekly mini-lecture topics will expand to include more information on different aspects of learning styles. |
| Learning Outcomes | all |
Changes
| Details | Gave schedule and outline and notes for weekly mini lectures/demonstrations. Implemented student rewards for participation. Changed from pre-& post-survey to pre-survey about all strategies in course and follow-up surveys that were specific to individual strategies and relevance to student learning style. Unsuccessfully Implemented new student directed tracking sheet for strategies attempted/applied. |
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| Learning Outcomes | all |
Tentative Future Plans
| Term | Fall 2013 |
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| More Details | We plan to incorporate tracking sheet to record teacher observations of successful student application of learning strategies. We will try to again incorporate a more simplified student directed tracking sheet for students to record strategies they have tried. We will adjust the strategy specific surveys to try to better capture student strategy use. |
SLO Details Storage Location
- HARD COPY - In my personal filing system (my office)
- ELECTRONIC COPY - In my electronic filing system (hard drive or web server)