Spring 2013 Course SLO Review

PHOT 60B - Intermediate Photoshop - Stage 5 - Erika Gentry

Assessment

Assessment Methods	Capstone projects or final summative assignments
Assessment Description	12/18 Students each produced a final project with the following objectives. The numbers in table represent the number of student portfolios that were reviewed and their ranking. Objectives: 1. To create a cohesive body of work (minimum of 3-5 pieces) that employ excellent use of photographic and photoshop techniques as well as posses a strong creative concept and/or idea. 2. To use a successful workflow including tonal and color corrections, retouching, burning and dodging, interpretive controls, special effects, sharpening, collage, etc to make a successful images. Images must go a step beyond using photoshop as a "digital darkroom". 3. To submit a written email or verbal proposal to work before you begin, and to receive Instructor support and feedback along the way. 4. To make a beautiful and successful outputs. To begin to think about presenting a series of work in a portfolio and to a gallery.
Learning Outcomes	Demonstrate ability to solve photographic problems in increasing levels of sophistication using computer software programs.
Number of Sections	1
Number of Instructors	1
Number of Students	12

Data Analysis

Data Shared With	Faculty and staff within our department
Data Sharing Methods	Face-to-face meetings Email Website review and commentary
Data Summary	Ruberic1: Demonstrated understanding of fundamental craft and concepts relating to chosen presentation through examples drawn from text sources, lecture, and personal experience. 6/incomplete 3/good 9/incomplete Ruberic 2: Completed assignment successfully and onetime according to guidelines 6/incomplete 12/excellent Ruberic3: Actively participated in final critique, provided artist statement and put files on server.(Assignments 1-final put in a folder with your name in a 72ppi jpg format. 6/incomplete 1/fair 1/good 10/excellent Ruberic 4: Presentation has proper borders for handling, nice clean prints, no marks, good tonal values 6/incomplete 3/good 15/excellent Ruberic 5: Over all creativity and uniqueness 6/incomplete 4/good 8/excellent
Analysis Summary	Students achieved outcome if most students received a rating of good or excellent. Based on the results, the artist statements have been improved from last semester. While ruberic 4 is also vastly improved – more time in the lab needs to be given to in class printing, allowing the students to practice. Open lab time was severely cut this semester limiting open lab hours. Another issue is the lack of equipment – if there was a computer available in the print lab students could work even while classes are in session.
Next Steps Planned	To address the goal of improving the artist statement I included a partial lecture and lots of examples as it related to the final capstone project. I feel that the loop has been closed in producing artist statements and in producing fairly good quality final projects. Next semester I would like to evaluate the ruberic “Demonstrate an understanding of the different output devices and produce prints using at least three types of printing processes”. by continuing to work with our lab on printer access and workflow.
Learning Outcomes	“Demonstrate an understanding of the different output devices and produce prints using at least three types of printing processes”.

Changes

Details	I addressed "Demonstrate ability to solve photographic problems in increasing levels of sophistication using computer software programs." which is a broad SLO encompassing a lot of components. This semester I focused on the quality of the projects as a whole, but specifically "Actively participated in final critique, provided artist statement and put files on server.(Assignments 1-final put in a folder with your name in a 72ppi jpg format." and "Demonstrated understanding of fundamental craft and concepts relating to chosen presentation through examples drawn from text sources, lecture, and personal experience.". To promote success I designed an additional lecture in writing an artist statement as well as showing extensive examples.
Learning Outcomes	ALL

Details

I addressed "Demonstrate ability to solve photographic problems in increasing levels of sophistication using computer software programs." which is a broad SLO encompassing a lot of components. This semester I focused on the quality of the projects as a whole, but specifically "Actively participated in final critique, provided artist statement and put files on server.(Assignments 1-final put in a folder with your name in a 72ppi jpg format." and "Demonstrated understanding of fundamental craft and concepts relating to chosen presentation through examples drawn from text sources, lecture, and personal experience.". To promote success I designed an additional lecture in writing an artist statement as well as showing extensive examples.

Learning Outcomes

ALL

Tentative Future Plans

Term	Fall 2013
Activities	Implementation of planned changes and reassessment
More Details	I feel that the loop has been closed in producing artist statements and producing fairly good quality final projects. Next semester I would like to evaluate the ruberic “Demonstrate an understanding of the different output devices and produce prints using at least three types of printing processes”.

SLO Details Storage Location

ELECTRONIC COPY - On a department web server or shared document system

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