Pasadena City College - Student Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Defining Assessment

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes requires clearly focused SLOs and and includes data from a variety of areas.

Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning. It involves:
- making our expectations explicit and public;
- setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality;
- systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards; and
- using the resulting information to document, explain and improve performance.
Assessing instruction involves:
- student metacognition
- pedagogy
- curriculum
- success in student learning
Assessing student services involves
- activities
- services
- attitudes, perceptions and satisfaction
- actual outcomes
Assessment consists of a variety of data and methods:
- direct
- indirect
- quantity
- qualities
Assessment answers important questions and involves more than just accessible numbers of factoids
Assessment contributes to learning in the process of the assessment
Assessment closes the loop by using data to improve courses, curriculum. program and services.

from: Assessing Student Learning www.smccd.net/accounts/wongk/905BakersfieldWorkshop.doc

Assessment Methods

"Assessing SLOs" (Univ. of Washington)

Classroom Assessment Techniques
- - "Collecting Student Feedback" from Indiana.edu)

Portfolios

Embedded Assessment

Rubrics

PCC Recommended Rubric Guidelines

Student Learning Outcomes in the CSUs: Links to examples of Scoring Rubrics

Rubrics Page - Additional Examples, templates, etc.

Resources for Rubrics

Developing assessment language using Bloom's Taxonomy

Learning Skills Program: Using Bloom's Taxonomy.

"Using the New Bloom's Taxonomy to Design Meaningful Learning Assessments"
Kevin Smythe & Jane Halonen (APA.org)

Assessment Tools and General Assessment Resources

CMU's Assessment Toolkit: Types of assessment tools: rubrics, portfolios, formative and summative techniques, surveys, etc.
California Assessment Institute - Tools of Assessment: Includes Rubrics, portfolios, embedded assessment, etc.


American Psychological Association's "The Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes in the Undergraduate Psychology Major."

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Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)