Spring 2013 Course SLO Review

HUM 8 - Philosophies of Religion - Stage 5 - Liss

Assessment

Assessment Methods	Analysis of exam, quiz, or homework items linked to specific SLOs Course outline review
Assessment Description	Our work on the Humanities 8 Course Outline and attendant SLOs goes back to January 2010. We have met and exchanged e-mails many times, discussing what the course should achieve and how. The course outline has been submitted to the Campus Curriculum Committee, and we hope to have it approved on September 11, 2013. In the Spring 2013 semester, we entered a second loop of assessment by creating a common question to be administered
Learning Outcomes	ALL from 2010-2013 Course Outline work. Spring 2013 test-based assessment addressed Learning Outcome B.
Number of Sections	4 (Spring 2013)
Number of Instructors	3
Number of Students	94 (Spring 2013)

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	2010-2013: The Course Outline review from 2010-2013 was educational and productive for us. All instructors (Liss, Keast, McGuire, Georgiou, and Hendrickson) offered their thoughts on their teaching processes and how these related to the revision of the SLOs. Spring 2013: The aggregate grade across four sections of the class on the Islam paragraph-length response was 87.2%.
Analysis Summary	2010-2013: We found that revisiting the outcomes helped focus the course on more measurable goals. Although there is still much about a Humanities course that cannot be quantified, we found that having the goals helped us create a spine for the course and how students would be evaluated, highlighting certain vocabulary and specific passages from the reading. Spring 2013: We consider 80% to be satisfactory and have a goal of 85% for these kinds of responses. So our a result of 87.2% exceeded expectations.
Next Steps Planned	2010-2013: We looked forward to assessment of the Learning Outcomes through hard data from common questions. Spring 2013: We consider the assessment of SLO B in Spring 2013 to be a success. The next time we assess this course, we will move on to other SLOs since B seems to be working as intended.
Learning Outcomes	ALL.

Changes

Details	We finalized our course outline changes, discussed the effects on our pedagogical processes, and collaborated on common-question assessment.
Learning Outcomes	ALL

Tentative Future Plans

Term	Spring 2014
Activities	Assessment (measurement) of outcomes Analysis and discussion of assessment data and next steps
More Details	We will decide on a new SLO to assess and collaborate on a common question (or other method).

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)

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