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EPA Committee Members:
Linda Bashor
Gretchen Bender
April Cunningham
Meredith Dorner
Patricia Flanigan
David Francisco
Elizabeth Horan
Denice Inciong
Brooke Lange
Kris Leppien-Christensen
Christina Nigrelli
Nicole Ortega
Diane Pestolesi
Rachel Ridnor
Christina Smith
Anthony Teng
Shouka Torabi

Educational Planning and Assessment (EPA)

Saddleback College's Educational Planning and Assessment Committee oversees our efforts to engage in an ongoing quest for quality improvement, and to document how well we fulfill our mission and goals by employing a comprehensive system of planning and outcomes assessment in all programs, student support units, and administrative service units on campus.  The three components of Educational Planning and Assessment (EPA) are curriculum, program review/administrative unit review, and student learning outcomes/administrative unit outcomes.

An Overview of Educational Planning and Assessment at Saddleback College:

Curriculum:

• Curriculum and program development coordinated by the Curriculum Committee
• Courses approved on the basis of such standards as grading policy, units, prerequisites, academic rigor, course content, course objectives, repeatability, assignments, instructional methodology, and methods of evaluation. 
• Each course and program is evaluated on a regular cycle through technical review

Program Review:

• Coordinated by the EPA Committee
• Each department periodically completes a Program Review as a way to assess the strengths and weaknesses of its programs, and to determine its needs
• Reviews are made public through posting on the EPA website
• Annual updates to the review are also completed
• Administrative Units also complete an Administrative Unit Review and annual update
• Linked to planning and budget allocations

Student Learning Outcomes:

• Coordinated by the EPA Committee
• Course-level SLOs assessed each year in every course offered
• All course-level SLOs linked to an Institutional SLO
• Program-level SLOs are assessed annually for each degree and certificate program
• Process coordinated by the department chairs
• Results currently input into CurricUNET
• SLOs should be listed on all course syllabi
• Administrative Units complete Administrative Unit Outcomes (AUOs)

Institute for Teaching and Learning:

• Coordinated by the EPA Committee
• Centralized information on faculty training in relation to teaching and learning
• Joint project of EPA, BSI, and DE
• Organizes workshops for faculty on teaching and learning, instructional technologies, and SLO/AUO assessment
• Produces a bi-annual Newsletter on issues related to teaching and learning