Minutes for November 16, 2007

The Evolution of Student Learning Outcomes

for Central Region Colleges

Seventy-eight people registered via the Central Region Consortium Web site to participate in this workshop. The day was intended to be responsive to the colleges' request for interaction to share campus SLO models.  College teams were asked to submit sample SLO documents that were duplicated and shared with attendees.  The following topics were discussed by college team members:

The State of SLOs at Your College:
Your stage in the accreditation process
Your experience with accreditation, if applicatble
What worked?
What were (and are) your challenges?
Sharing Models:
Course SLOs
Program SLOs
College SLOs
Assessments:
What assessments are you using for COURSE, PROGRAM, and COLLEGE SLOs?
How are you measuring each course, program, and college SLO?
How is improvement made based on the assessment results?

College teams shared their responses to each workshop topic, as listed above.