To 2012… and Beyond

Finishing what we have started…

The Forest for the Trees…• The real meaningfulness of SLOs• Don’t Get Lost in the Numbers• Finding Time to Talk• Involving Students• Just How Far We Have Come• Working together.• What lies ahead…

Catching Our Breath• Take a little time to re-read the good work on

outcomes assessment• Share with Each Other• Recognize Good Work, Tell them• Empowering Leaders to Use Results

to continuously improve

SLOs are the Key…

to unlock the door of learning.

Shaping the Dialogue Foster

Student

Learning

Verify

Integrity

Provide

means for

students

to learn Improvement

Self-Evaluation

Ongoing Self-reflective Dialogue

Resources

Support

LearningPromote

QualitySource: Shaping the Dialogue, 2002 Standards, ACCJC

Themes of Accreditation

Institutional Commitment

SLOs

Evaluation, Planning, and Improvement

Organization

Institutional Integrity

Dialogue

SLOs as a Theme• The College “consciously and robustly” show positive efforts

to produce and support student learning. • Learning outcomes measured and assessed to determine how

well learning is occurring so that improvement can be made.• Faculty engagement in discussions of ways to deliver

instruction to maximize student learning. • Student services develop SLOs and evaluate their policies,

processes, and procedures for student access and movement.• SLOs are at the center of the institution’s key processes and

allocation of resources.

Have we put outcomes and authentic assessment “in place”?

Are We Using Results to Improve?

Are We Talking?

Do Our Students Know What We Want Them to Learn?

Are We Making Good Decisions?

Are We Putting Time, Money and Effort Where it Needs to Go?

Are We Keeping Records?

How Are We Communicating Our Efforts to Fellow Faculty, the Board, the Students and the Community We Serve?

From No to Yes… How Do We Improve?

Finding and Closing Gaps

What is performance gap that exists at your site that prevents the full implementation of SLOs at your

college?

Describe the Gap in detail….

How do you know the gap exists?

(What evidence do you have that establishes the gap?)

What are the primary obstacles that cause the gap in performance?

(What are the kinds of gaps?)

How do you know the gap exists?

(What evidence do you have that establishes the gap?)

Types of Gaps

Knowledge: Caused by knowledge, skills or abilities that must be learned to

do the workMotivation: Faculty lack the active choice,

mental effort or persistenceStructural: Organizational barriers that

block buy-in

Source: Turning Research into Results, Clarke and Estes

Benchmarking Leaders

One way is to find a college who is doing what you hope to do and ‘benchmark” their efforts.

What resources will help close the gap?

• People• Technology• Funding• Facilities

How will you check progress on closing the gap?