PHOT 81B - Advanced Black & White Darkroom Techniques - Stage 4 - Nadereh Degani
Assessment
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| Assessment Description | Based on the evaluation of student assignments that address two different areas of the Student Learning Outcome on the Course Outline for Phot 81B, certain changes will be made to the take home assignment sheets and in class material. I was able to assess that the students required more direct visual examples in class, for each given assignment, before they could develop a concrete understanding of SLO C. I will provide them with more in class visual examples for Spring 2014, and include more detailed information on the assignment sheets to allow for a more clear understanding of the expectations for each assignment. |
| Learning Outcomes | Student learning Outcomes (from Phot 81B Course Outline) assessed: A. Produce a portfolio of high quality Black and White prints. C. Diagnose and correct problems with existing prints. |
| Number of Sections | 1 |
| Number of Instructors | 2 |
| Number of Students | 15 |
Data Analysis
| Data Shared With | Instructors of the same course (at CCSF) |
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| Data Summary | 80% of the students were able to complete the semester with a portfolio of prints that were of excellent photographic quality. This indicates that SLOs A & C that were assessed from the Spring 2013 session of Phot 81B, are mostly working in a positive manner in regards to the student learning outcome of the course. However, since the assessment does not show a 100% achievement score, I decided that it would help the remaining percentage of the class who were not able to have an exemplary portfolio of photographic images, achieve this through the exposure of more direct visual examples of each processing method, to better understand their benefit towards their own photographic work. |
| Analysis Summary | Over all, most of the students were able to diagnose and correct problems with their existing prints, and they were able to produce a portfolio of high quality black and white prints. This indicates that the material and assignments given to students and discussed in great detail in class, while also demonstrating the methods and processes to a great extend in the lab, has been helpful and effective for the achievement of SLO A & C. However, based on the results, I feel it would be helpful to the students if I included slightly more detailed information about what the expectations are for each assignment on the assignment handouts, and to show more visual examples while going over the different assignments. This should help the remaining students achieve SLO A & C more precisely and up to an exemplary standard. |
| Next Steps Planned | I think it’s logical to perform the same assessment method in the next Phot 81A class, in Spring 2014, to see if adjusting proposed teaching strategies improves the achievement of the students in SLO A & C. |
| Learning Outcomes | ALL |
Tentative Future Plans
| Term | Spring 2014 |
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| More Details | Since this was the first time I taught Phot 81B, analysis and discussions with the previous instructor, our department chair, Bob Nishihira, of what should be assessed in that class, was important. We both agreed that we needed to focus on the assessment of SLOs A and C from the course outline. I will be modifying the assignment handouts to include more information pertaining to the expectation for each assignment, and I will also provide more visual examples of what each assignment final results should look like. This should allow the students to learn in more detail, the effects of each process, and how these methods would benefit them in their own final image making. |
SLO Details Storage Location
- HARD COPY - In my personal filing system (my office)
- HARD COPY - In a department filing system (department office)
- ELECTRONIC COPY - In my electronic filing system (hard drive or web server)
- ELECTRONIC COPY - On a department web server or shared document system