palomar college general education/institutional learning outcomes overview fall, 2015

Palomar College General Education/Institutional

Learning Outcomes

Overview Fall, 2015

Assessments 2012-2015

• Information Literacy, Spring 2012• Critical and Creative Thinking, Spring 2012• Critical Thinking, Spring 2013• Oral Communication, Spring 2013• Quantitative Literacy, Spring 2014• Written Communication, Fall 2014• Intercultural Competency, Spring 2015

Information Literacy

• 48% of students who have completed 45 units at Palomar College are proficient in information literacy.

• Over 50% of all students assessed scored either proficient or exemplary on each of the first four competencies (define, access, evaluate and use information).

• Less than half (42.5%) of the students assessed at proficiency on using information ethically (citing sources).

Information Literacy

Critical & Creative Thinking

• 56% of those students earned an overall score of proficient or exemplary.

• Older students performed better than younger students

• Students scores improved with number of units completed up to 30 units. Then there was a slight decline.

Critical & Creative Thinking

• Put together workgroup to rethink rubric• Assessed just critical thinking again – the

following year.• Professional development workshops each

semester

Oral Communication

• 70% of those students scored at proficient or above.

• Younger students scored better than older students.

• Asian students scored lower than white and Hispanics students.

Oral Communication

• Professional development workshop on teaching oral communication & presentation skills in the non-speech classroom

• We would like to offer a series in the TLC on how to overcome communication apprehension

Quantitative Literacy

• No difference in performance by gender• White, Non-Hispanic student group performed

better on average than Hispanic student group• Youngest students 18-19 did not perform as

well on average as older students

Quantitative Literacy

• Created workgroup to develop quantitative literacy resources for students and faculty.

• Group met in June and discussed some of the challenges facing students and faculty.

• John Harland presented an extensive list of resources that faculty could use in their classes.

• John is working with some of the faculty members to develop some tailored resources for their courses.

Written Communication

• 81.2% Competent / More than Competent• Results varied by subgroup• Women received more “Superior” ratings• 30+ students received more “Superior” ratings• White, Non Hispanic and multi-ethnic tended to

receive higher ratings• Students with more units had slightly higher ratings• Strengths -Context and purpose, critical thinking,

overall structure• Weaknesses - Grammar and punctuation

Written Communication

Ideas for Action:• Need to form a workgroup to develop ideas below• Every class should have a writing assignment• Encourage revisions• Sentence level problems - gather resources – web sites• Remind faculty to send students to writing center• Workshops on specific areas - weaknesses• Faculty forum – discussing areas of concern• Offer PD Workshops for faculty -- how to improve

writing in your classroom & writing a rubric

Intercultural Competency

• Assessments varied across the six factors.• 53.7%-60.5% of students rated “Proficient” /

“Exemplary”• Results varied across demographic categories • Gender – Overall women rated higher on “Empathy”• Age - 30+ students received proportionately more

“Exemplary” ratings• Units – All over the board, small trend for students

with higher units. Again use caution when interpreting results.

Intercultural Competency

Ideas for Action:• Rubric was difficult to use. Consider using e-portfolios in

the future.• Norming needs further refinement.• Expand a cultural awareness to an institutional awareness

– faculty, staff, administrators• PD training for faculty and staff, to model and teach

intercultural competence.• Investigate a resource center for undocumented students.• Align and promote the courses that meet the multi-

cultural requirement

GE/ILO tasks for 2015-2016

• Follow-up with Quantitative literacy resources, reconsider modules

• Put workgroup together for written communication to tackle suggestions for action

• Put workgroup together for intercultural competency to tackle suggestions for action

• Work with PD and Student Equity on Spring Equity Event

GE/ILO tasks for 2015-2016 - continued

• Develop workshop for Communication Apprehension for TLC

• Evaluate the Dashboard• Assess Digital Literacy Spring 2016• Research Integrative Learning and consider if

there is a way to develop an assessment or approach to an assessment that would evaluate the entire category of Integrative Learning and Personal and Social Responsibility