LEARNING OUTCOMES COUNCIL
August 25, 2016 Minutes
Approved – September 8, 2016
Co-Chairs:
Present:
Dan Sourbeer, Wendy Nelson, Hope Farquharson
April Cunningham, Sarah DeSimone, Kelly Falcone, Hope Farquharson, Katy
Farrell, Jenny Fererro, Jack Kahn, Cheryl Kearse, Sara Krause, Susan Miller
Michael Mufson, Wendy Nelson, Dan Sourbeer, Sue Zolliker
Absent:
Michelle Barton, Michael Deal, Tess Emminger, Michael Gilkey, Adrian
Gonzalez, John Harland, Brian Stockert, Anastasia Zavodny
Recorder:
Marti Snyder
The meeting was called to order by Wendy Nelson at 2:42 p.m.
1. Approve Minutes 5/12/2016
MSC, Sourbeer, Kearse, to approve the minutes as presented. All in favor.
2. Introductions and Announcements
Michael Mufson announced the theater arts season for this year-long theme: Our Town,
Our Nation - Looking at the Evolving American Identity. Michael also announced the
upcoming play “Facing Our Truth – Six Ten-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race, and
Privilege. There will also be additional dialogue in regards to race and social justice in
our country. These plays will support the action from assessing the ILO – Intercultural
Competency and Knowledge. The workgroup that met over the summer will focus its
activities on creating a critical multicultural consciousness at Palomar College. Michael
has created a website to facilitate the play’s dialogue: PalomarCoffeeTalks.org.
Kelly Falcone announced that registration is open for the Active Learning Conference in
October.
Wendy Nelson announced that she and Kelly are currently planning for Assessment Day,
which will be held on Friday, October 7. Tom Angelo will provide the keynote speech, as
well as several workshops. The event is free.
3. LOC Orientation
Wendy provided a PowerPoint presentation as an introduction to LOC in which she
reviewed the mission and governance structure of LOC and the roles and duties of LOC
members. She also reflected on accreditation requirements and some perspectives
regarding the assessment of learning (culture of compliance – accreditation focused,
culture of intentionality – student focused), including guiding principles for SLO
assessment. Wendy also reviewed LOC mission and governance structure.
The Council discussed additional tasks for LOC, which included:
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Brainstorming activities to determine if students know about SLOs .
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Continue the SLO newsletter, possibly through the Comet Information Exchange
Include all SLOs on the course syllabus (not just those that are being assessed that
semester)
Verify that SLOs on the syllabus are the same SLOs in TracDat and that they conform
with ILOs
Wendy reviewed two models of SLO assessment. The first model was accreditation
focused, while the second model was student focused. She suggested that we post the
diagram of the student focused model on the TracDat and SLO Resources website.
Cheryl Kearse suggested that successful SLO forums or panel discussions be added to the
Assessment Day agenda.
Wendy also suggested that it may be necessary for facilitators to go through all of the
syllabi in their departments to make sure we are meeting the accreditation
recommendation.
4. GE/ILO Summer activities
Wendy provided a summary of the LOC activities conducted over the summer which
included:
1) June – writing workgroup met and agreed on some activities and goals. LOC needs to
decide how we proceed.
2) June – small LOC workgroup met to discuss assessing Knowledge of Human Culture
and the Physical and Natural World. LOC needs to finalize this assessment so that an
addendum can be added to the PRP document.
3) July/August – an LOC subgroup focusing on action for our GE/ILO assessment of
Intercultural Competency & Knowledge met several times and have outlined a plan of
action. LOC will have to review and approve.
4) Quantitative Literacy Action – create QL modules designed for specific disciplines.
Serena Mercado was hired to work on these modules. She had created modules for
accounting and is currently working with sociology and chemistry.
5. SLO Facilitators – SLOs versus objectives brainstorming
Due to time constraints, this item was not addressed.
Meeting adjourned at 3:55 p.m.
Next Meeting: September 8, 2016
2:00-3:30 p.m.
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