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Compton: Course SLOs (Div 2) - Spanish

FALL 2015Assessment: Course Four Column

COM: SPAN 2:Elementary Spanish II

Course SLOs Assessment MethodDescription Results Actions

SLO #1 - Upon completion of Spanish2, successful students will converse inand comprehend Spanish using thesimple past tenses (Preterite/Imperfect), and Future tense abouteveryday topics, such as descriptionand narration about childhood andother stages of life, celebrations andsocial life, within the limits ofvocabulary appropriate to beginningSpanish 2.

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Course SLO Assessment Cycle: 2013-14 (Fall 2013), 2014-15 (Fall 2014),2015-16 (Fall 2015), 2016-17 (Fall2016), 2017-18 (Fall 2017)

Course SLO Status: Active

Input Date: 12/21/2013

Comments::

Standard and Target for Success:85% of students will have asatisfactory command of oralSpanish.

Faculty Assessment Leader: Axa MaradiagaFaculty Contributing to Assessment: Juan Antonio TavarezReviewer's Comments: Students should be encouraged tocontinue conversing in Spanish. El Camino CollegeCompton Center should provide funds for oral activities inSpanish: Spanish Spelling Bee.

Action: Spanish faculty shouldpromote the oral Spanish SpellingBee contest. Spanish faculty shouldpromote Spanish poetry rehearsals.By doing this, Students will learn theright pronunciation and intonationthrough poetry. (02/05/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: Spanish faculty will continueexploring dynamics methods forstudents to speak orally. Studentswill be asked to present an oralpresentation and recite orally apoem. (02/05/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: Spanish II students havedeficiencies that should have beencorrected in Spanish I. More focusshould be placed on accent marksregarding the preterit, and thecorrect placement of the verb, nounand adjectives in Spanish I courses.In the future Spanish II strategies willconsist in reinforcement of a preview

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard MetOral component: Target for success 85%. We met thetarget at 100%. All students successfully completed the oralcomponent. They were able to converse appropriately.They had good pronunciation. Some non-native Spanishspeakers minimal problems in pronouncing the /rr/ and the/ñ/. 100% used the tenses correctly. They were ask to usethe (preterit/imperfect) tenses. They were able to use thetenses correctly. 100% were able to orally expressthemselves in diverse topics: childhood memories, differentstages of life and Latino celebrations. (02/05/2015)

Reviewer's Comments: 100% ofSpanish II students showedconsistency in Spanish fluencyaccording to the course level.

Multiple Assessments - MethodAssessments consisted in an oralpresentation and a written essay.

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of Spanish I lessons and also inSpanish II more focus will be placedin the preterit verbs. (12/18/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

SLO #2 - Upon completion of Spanish2, successful students will read andcomprehend short paragraphs inSpanish on topics such as food, healthand well-being, housing, city life,personal relationships, andcelebrations.

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Comments::

Standard and Target for Success:85% of students were target toobtain the satisfactory results.

Faculty Assessment Leader: Axa MaradiagaFaculty Contributing to Assessment: Juan Antonio TavarezReviewer's Comments:

Action: Spanish faculty will createreading workshops together with theSpanish tutors. (02/06/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction:Spanish II students have deficienciesthat should have been corrected inSpanish I. More focus should beplaced on accent marks regarding thepreterit, and the correct placementof the verb, noun and adjectives inSpanish I courses.

(02/05/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard Not MetThe results are as follows: 17 students were evaluated and90% of the students in Spanish II tend to prefer theimperfect tense over the preterit.All students ignored the usage of the subjunctive tense.90% still have problems regarding the accent marks for thepreterit verbs.50% have syntactical errors. Standards were not met. (02/05/2015)

Reviewer's Comments: 98% showedstrong analytical reasoning regardingthe reading aspect and 90% ofstudents showed a satisfactoryusage on Spanish syntax andgrammar.

Multiple Assessments - Theassessment method consisted ofcritical reading and writingassignments. Students had to readand analyze articles on health issuesand personal relationships. Thewritten components consisted onwritten paragraphs with a widevariety of topics, such as Latincuisine and Cultural aspects.

SLO #3 - Upon completion of Spanish2, successful students will write athree- paragraph essay in Spanishdescribing and narrating in the pastabout childhood and other stages oflife, celebrations and social life usingthe Preterite and Imperfect, PresentSubjunctive tenses.

Course SLO Assessment Cycle: 2014-15 (Fall 2014), 2015-16 (Fall 2015),2016-17 (Fall 2016), 2017-18 (Fall2017)



Standard and Target for Success:85% were target for a satisfactoryresults.


Action: Spanish faculty will providewriting workshops in conjugationwith the Spanish tutors.(02/06/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: Spanish II students havedeficiencies that should have beencorrected in Spanish I. More focusshould be placed on accent marksregarding the preterit, and thecorrect placement of the verb, nounand adjectives in Spanish I courses.


Reviewer's Comments: Studentswere asked to write a three essayparagraph. They had to use thetenses preterit, imperfect and thesubjunctive mood. They had towrite about childhood memories,

Essay/Written Assignment - Theassessment method consists of athree paragraph essay in Spanish.The Students had to use the preteritand the imperfect tense.



Inactive Date:Comments::

For the future, the focus should benarrowed to grammar and syntax.And review of Spanish I should beimplemented in the first weeks ofinstructions.

(02/05/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Latino celebrations and urban life.Overall, 16 students were evaluated.The results are as follow: 10students ha a preference for usingthe preterit, 6 students had apreference for using the preterit.16 students did not used thesubjunctive mood, 2 students usethe conditional tense instead of theimperfect tense. The margin ofpreference was not very prominentbetween the use of the preterit andthe imperfect. The levels ofproficiency differ between non-native and heritage speakers.

SLO #4 - Upon completion of Spanish2, successful students willdemonstrate developing awarenessof Hispanic culture, values andtraditions such as coming of ageat fifteen parties (quinceañera), dayof the dead, saint day celebration,etc.

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Comments::

Standard and Target for Success:85% of students were target for asatisfactory results.

Faculty Assessment Leader: Axa MaradiagaFaculty Contributing to Assessment: Juan Antonio TavárezReviewer's Comments: 100% of the students were able topresent and understand the multicultural legacy of LatinAmerica. A very small amount of students showed someanxiety in speaking the target language (Spanish) in public.This was particularly in the non-native Spanish speakers.

Action: In order to continue having100% success in cultural awareness,Spanish II students will be encourageand they will be prepared to doSpanish interviews, recite Spanishpoetry and will be introduce toSpanish rhetoric. (02/11/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard MetCultural presentations (02/06/2016)

Faculty Assessment Leader: Axa MaradiagaFaculty Contributing to Assessment: Juan Antonio Tavarez

Action: Spanish faculty should focuson "conditional clauses" thatemphasizes the use of subjunctivemode. The Spanish instructorsshould allocate the sufficient time toteach the subjunctive tense, theteaching of this tense should not beoverlooked or be treated as a tensereview. Examples of the subjunctiveshould be use with the Spanishsubjunctive "ojalá," which thestudents tend be more familiarized.


Reviewer's Comments: 90% ofstudents had a reasonable commandof oral communication of the targetlanguage. 90% of students wereaware and engage in cultural aspectsof the Latino culture.

Multiple Assessments - Theassessment method was an oralexam and oral presentations.



Reviewer's Comments:(02/11/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategies


Action: All students (100%) were ableto understand and comprehend theimportance and cultural varieties ofthe Spanish speaking world. Allstudents have participated in either aQuinceañera or Day of the Deadcelebration. The studentsunderstand that cultural events bringthe Latino community together. Theaction of the Spanish faculty shouldbe that they must encourage thestudents to partake in Latino culturalevents such as a "quinceañeara""The Latino Heritage Month" or a"Cinco de Mayo celebration" andhave them present an oralpresentation of the observation ofthe event. (02/05/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard MetAll students had fluency in oral Spanish and all studentsdemonstrated cultural awareness, values and traditions ofthe Hispanic culture. (02/05/2015)


COM: SPAN 21:Beg Convrstnl Spanish


SLO #1 - Upon completion of Spanish21, successful students will be able toconverse orally and understandsimple spoken questions in Spanishon everyday topics occurring inconversational situations such asmeeting someone, making a phonecall, describing one's day.

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Comments::

Standard and Target for Success:85% of students had to passed witha satisfactory results.


Action: In the future, the oralstandard pronunciation will beencouraged through oralpresentations using the standardvariation. Oral dialogues will beassigned as part of their vocabularybuild-up. (02/06/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard Met99% of the students succeeded in their oral fluency skills.There were some minimum dialectal variations. But thiswas due to the regional influence of the speaker.(02/06/2015)

Reviewer's Comments: 95% ofstudents had strong oral commandsof Spanish. They had a strongcommand of Spanish phonology.The students were able todistinguished the correct phonologyof the letter /x/. They knew not topronounce the letter /h/ in thebeginning of the word. In Spanish/h/ is silent. The students were ableto identify the phonology of thediphthongs.

Multiple Assessments - Theassessment method consist of groupdiscussions, 3 oral presentations andoral exams. Topics that werediscussed orally were: Personalhobbies, Latino cuisine and favoritesschool subjects.

SLO #2 - Upon successful completionof Spanish 21, successful students willbe able to converse orally and answerorally on a cultural appropriatemanner to simple questions withease.

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Standard and Target for Success:85% of students had to show readingcomprehension in Spanish.

Faculty Assessment Leader: Axa MaradiagaFaculty Contributing to Assessment: Juan Antonio TavarezReviewer's Comments: Spanish faculty should providereading materials in Spanish, beyond the textbook. Thereading material can be magazines, newspapers, Spanishcomic books. The Spanish faculty should utilize the

Action: Spanish faculty willencourage student to utilize moresophisticated vocabulary. Spanishfaculty will encourage students todiversify there language use.(02/06/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: Spanish faculty will utilize theSpanish reading material provided bythe College library. Faculty willencourage students to read currentevents from La Opinión newspaper.(02/05/2016)

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard MetReading component. The standard was met. All students(100%) were able to comprehend the reading selectionsfrom the textbook. The reading selections consisted ofshort stories: topics city life and life in Latin Americancountries. (02/06/2015)

Reviewer's Comments: 100% ofstudent had a mastery in reading inSpanish.

Multiple Assessments - Theassessment consisted of reading andcomprehension of paragraphs, shortstories and urban topics: city life,urban health and well being. Urbanhousing and personal relationshipsand celebrations.



Libraries Spanish reading material in order to continuehaving the reading success.

Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: In the future, students willhave to learn how to properly reciteSpanish poetry and will have astronger comprehension of thevarieties of Latin music.(02/06/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies


COM: SPAN 22:Inter Convrstnl Spanish


SLO #1 - Upon completion of Spanish22, successful students will conversewith ease and will be able tounderstand spoken questions inSpanish on everyday topics as well asquestions centered on culturallyrelevant issues in Spanish-speakingsocieties such as Spanish/LatinAmerican cinema, media, andtechnology, Castilian Spanish vs LatinAmerican Spanish, etc.

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Course SLO Assessment Cycle: 2012-13 (Summer 2013), 2014-15 (Fall2014), 2015-16 (Fall 2015), 2016-17(Fall 2016), 2017-18 (Fall 2017)



Comments::

Standard and Target for Success:90% of students had to show astrong command in conversationalSpanish.


Action: In the future, oral debateswill be implemented regardingcurrent topics of Latin American andSpain. (02/06/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: In the future, oral debateswill be implemented regardingcurrent topics of Latin America andSpain. (02/06/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard Met100% of all students had a strong command in their oralusage of Spanish. Spanish varieties were present in part ofthe influence by their regional dialects. (02/06/2015)

Reviewer's Comments: 100% ofstudents had a mastery inconversational Spanish.

Multiple Assessments - Theassessment Method consists of oralexams, group conversations and oralpresentations.

Standard and Target for Success:85% success target.Reviewer's Comments: 100% of thestudents were able to communicatefluently in the language. Theyshowed a more diverse vocabulary.They also showed more complexsentences.

Presentation/Skill Demonstration -Oral presentation

SLO #2 - Upon completion of Spanish22, successful students will conversewith ease and will be able to answerorally in a culturally appropriatemanner to questions using simple aswell as complex sentences andidiomatic expressions.




Standard and Target for Success:90% of students had to show asatisfactory command ofconversational Spanish.

Faculty Assessment Leader: Axa MaradiagaFaculty Contributing to Assessment: Juan Antonio TavarezReviewer's Comments: In the oral component: 100% of thestudents had a strong oral command of Spanish. They wereable to distinguish between standard Spanish versus slang.Their were some difference in intonation. Yet this is due inpart by dialectical regionalisms.

Action: For the future, students willbe introduce to Spanish rhetoric.(02/06/2016)Action Category: TeachingStrategiesAction: For the future, students willbe introduce to Spanish rhetoric.(02/06/2015)Action Category: TeachingStrategies

Semester and Year Assessment Conducted: 2015-16 (Fall2015)Standard Met? : Standard Met100% of the students had a strong command of oralSpanish. 100% of students had a strong foundation inSpanish expressions. (02/06/2015)

Reviewer's Comments: 100% ofstudents met with mastery thecommand of oral and conversationalSpanish.

Multiple Assessments - Theassessment method consists of oralexams, oral presentations and groupdiscussions.


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