Spring Recess
March 27 - April 2, 2023

Cesar Chavez Day (Holiday)
March 31, 2023

Flex Day, No Classes
April 20, 2023

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

Resources

For general information on planning, writing and assessing outcomes, check the toolkit.

On this page you will find:

• Sharepoint link - find your discipline folder and deposit your assessment plan here! https://smccd.sharepoint.com/sites/csm/CACSLOs (You will need to use your smccd.edu login).
• Forms - assessment plan forms for instructional faculty, student services, and learning centers
• Workshops - PowerPoints and videos explaining the assessment process
• Archived Workshops - workshops from yesteryear, some of which are still relevant!
• College and General Resources

Forms

Assessment Plan - Instruction docx
Assessment Plan - Instruction pdf

Assessment Plan - Student Services docx
Assessment Plan - Student Services pdf

Assessment Plan - Learning Centers docx
Assessment Plan - Learning Centers pdf

Assessment Plan - Example pdf

Workshops

NOTE: CSM's assessment process changed in Fall 2018. Materials from an earlier date may include out-dated information.

Assessment Training Workshops: Explaining CSM's assessment requirements, and how to fulfil them.

• Making Your Assessment Plan (Fall 2019) mp4
• Our New SLO Process (Fall 2018) (YouTube)
• Filling Out Your Assessment Plan (Fall 2018) (YouTube)
• Mapping Outcomes (Fall 2018) (Powerpoint, YouTube)

General Training Workshops: Some general hows and whys of assessing student learning.

• How And Why to Assess Your Program (Fall 2018) (Powerpoint, YouTube)
• Easy Ways to Gather SLO Data (Fall 2017) (Powerpoint, YouTube)
• SLO Without Tears (Fall 2017) (Powerpoint)

Program Review Workshops: Getting through Program Review!

• Assessment and Program Review: Overview  - Fall flex day, August 2018 (YouTube)
• Assessment and Program Review: Quick FAQs - Fall flex day, October 2018 (YouTube)
• Assessment and Program Review: Instruction - Fall 2018 (YouTube)
• Assessment and Program Review: Student Services - Fall 2018 (YouTube)
• Assessment and Program Review: Learning Centers - Fall 2018 (YouTube)

ILO Workshops: Fall workshops focused on specific institutional learning outcomes.

Fall 2019: Independent Learning and Development, Social Awareness and Diversity, and Ethical Responsibility and Effective Citizenship (Flex day, August 2019)
In this workshop, three interdisciplinary faculty groups create interdisciplinary rubrics and a task to assess an ILO:

• Independent Learning and Development
• Social Awareness and Diversity
• Ethical Responsibility and Effective Citizenship

Fall 2018: Effective Communication, Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning - Taking Assessment Beyond the Classroom (Flex day, August 2018)
In this workshop, three interdisciplinary faculty groups created interdisciplinary rubrics to assess an ILO.

• Effective Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning
• Critical Thinking

Developing Assessments - Workshops

What Are They Learning? Taking Assessment Beyond The Classroom (Summer 2018)
In this workshop, an interdisciplinary group of faculty brainstormed ways to take a snapshot of student learning outside the usual classroom / service setting (i.e., at the institutional or program level)

• Introduction: What Are They Learning?
• Part 1: Interdisciplinary Assessment
• Part 2: Program Assessment
• Workshop summary

Archived Workshops

College Resources 2014 Follow-Up Report submitted to the ACCJC contains a variety of data and analysis regarding SLOs  Office of Planning, Research, Innovation and Effectiveness(PRIE)

General Resources Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning. Guidelines for assessment developed by the American Association of Higher Education.  National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. A mine of information about assessment: rubrics, guidelines, assessment instruments. Intersection of Assessment and Learning. A quarterly publication from the Association for Assessment of Learning in Higher Education.