The Central Region Consortium welcomed 55 participants to the Red Lion Hotel in Modesto for a full-day workshop session on Student Learning Outcomes.  Dr. Bill Scroggins, Vice President of Instruction at Modesto Junior College, provided an introduction, then focused on constructing, measuring, and using Student Learning Outcomes.  Group learning activities focused on writing SLOs and evaluation using rubrics.

Contact clarks@yosemite.cc.ca.us for copies of handouts used during workshop.   These include:  Student Learning Outcomes-A Focus on Results, What are SLOs?, Grading Rubric Template,  Summary of participant comments following session follows General Meeting minutes.

General Meeting of Central Region Consortium following workshop:

It was m/s/c to endorse the following applications:

San Joaquin Delta College

• Certificate in Media Studies / Radio concentration

• Certificate in Media Studies / Television concentration

Hartnell College

• New certificate options for Computer Science and Information Systems degrees.

Student Learning Outcomes Workshop – January 29, 2004

Activity Evaluation – Summary of Comments

Presented by: Dr. Bill Scroggins, Vice President of Instruction, Modesto Junior College

       Need a follow-up session on assessment design to measure SLOs.

       Well done!  Good pace, location, and organization.

       As a faculty member, I need more training, but I cannot miss weekdays.  Need some weekend activities that I can either get a stipend or unit of credit for attending.  Maybe an online discussion board for Central Region to share ideas.  Thank you for putting this activity together.

       Thanks!  Much more thinking and discussion to happen….

       Excellent, useful information with an opportunity to apply.  Especially useful for future program development and grant development in my program development capacity at the Training Institute (FCC).

       Additional meeting to discuss more options among different districts.  Ability to share with minor tweaking, effective grading rubrics.

       Bill does a great job!  Would like more on assessment, posting with ideas/materials on website.

       Invite a presenter to present this information to various departments.

       Very much enjoyed-learned a lot.  Excellent presentation!

       Excellent speaker.  Did great job of presenting this info.  Sharing-develop a website that allows everyone to post their materials.

       Opportunity to practices SLOs was very helpful.  Handouts are useful to share with staff.

       Very understandable; good handouts; well run.  Would like more on National Initiatives on writing across the curriculum.

       Partner with K-12 to learn effective practices.  Process of identifying and assessing SLOs have been part of K-12 standard for many years.

       Network writers of self-studies to compare results.

       I am a chair of my division’s Strategic Planning Committee, and the conference was very valuable with many practical applications. Dr. Scroggins’ materials distilled much of the reading I have done (of books he provided at a previous conference.)  I appreciate this very much, as it helped me focus on change in my own teaching and aided me in leading my committee, as well.

       Very useful workshop!  Thank you!

       Bill knows the information and presents it well.  Possible future topic:  Techniques for bringing faculty together.

       Continued training in assessment reporting practices, as to be uniform from dept. to dept.

       Excellent presentation; very clear hand-outs.  Department specific meetings;

       Bill was excellent - very informative.

       “Roundtable” reporting by colleges (faculty/admin) concerning actual implementation of SLOs and results

       Train-the-trainer sessions – offer more sessions to start (and continue) the process in specific disciplines (assessment and common grading rubrics)

       Allow us to compare notes/survey results with similar programs @ other community colleges.

       “Train-the-trainer” workshop, then provide assistance with development on a departmental basis.

       Fantastic.  You told us how to do it and gave real life examples that can be applied to vocational courses and programs. Tools are all the same – processes will differ; focus on application of tools and strategies for process building.

       THANK YOU!  A lot of information and very good presentation and interaction by everyone.  I’m a support staff person, and this info is all new to me, but today has been informative.  It should start relating to how my area and position fit in to scenario in helping committee of SLO at CC work together toward accreditation.

       I would like to have a workshops that will take one complete course outline and take it through SLO process.  Do same with a program.  Complete models from other colleges would help.

       Valuable info.

       Was well worth a 2.5 hour (one-way) drive!

       What if each college attempts to put SLOs in place in “a” program and bring the results back to share?

       I would like additional workshops on rubrics and assessment.

       Good workshop.  Learned a lot!  Offer TRAIN-THE-TRAINERS in SLOs.

       Good interactive presentation.

       Still gathering info on SLO.  Recommend:  “birds of a feather” get together – offer presentation with more examples.