It is a professional duty for all faculty members to take responsibility for curriculum and program development in their fields of expertise.  Title 5, section 55002, clearly states that the faculty must be an integral part of all curriculum decisions, and that, in fact, their input must be primarily relied upon as the professional and disciplinary experts at the College.  Therefore, the Curriculum Committee is a standing committee of the Academic Senate, and all decisions of the committee must be approved by the Senate before being sent to the Board of Trustees for approval.  

The Curriculum Committee is responsible for recommending approval of both credit and non-credit courses 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. 

Chair:  Howard Adams

Meeting Dates and Deadlines (9/26/07)

Forms

• Application for Approval of Credit Courses
• Curriculum Action Form
• Appendix C2- Distance Ed
• Non-Substantial Change to Approved Program
• SLO-Course Level Form
• Special Topics Course Approval

Handbook

Curriculum Procedures and Resources Manual

Links

• Curriculum Committee

• General Ed Committee

The Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) assessment process is a means to discover if students, are, in fact, learning what they are expected to learn in courses and programs throughout the college.  The accrediting agency for California Community Colleges (ACCJC) has elected to use SLOs as an integral part of its accrediting standards.  This is, in large part, a presponse to the U.S. Department of Education call for colleges and universities to engage in a process of continual self-examination and reflection with the goal of improvement.

Institutional Effectiveness Chair/SLO Coordinator:

Morgan Barrows, Ph.D.

SLO Facilitators:

To be appointed

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COURSE-LEVEL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

If you are a DEPARTMENT CHAIR and need to complete your courses' SLO you've come to the right place. Check to see if your course-level SLOs have been submitted by clicking here. Our deadline (August 22nd) for course-level SLOs is coming soon, so if you have not turned yours in, then you need to get on it right away!

It is imperative that course-level SLOs be submitted by August 22, 2008 for every course listed in the 2008-2009 catalog. IF all courses do not have a SLO and method of assessment, the College risks losing its accreditation.

To help facilitate this process, two Drop-In work sessions on the writing of SLOs will be conducted by Morgan Barrows, Chair of the Institutional Effectiveness Committee. The sessions will be held on wednesday, August 6th and Thursday August 14th from 2:00 to 4:00pm in TAS 225. There is also a Summer Online Training Opportunity for Faculty on Blackboard (from now until August 22nd)..."Student Learning Outcomes made Easy." For more information please visit:
http://www.saddleback.edu/ap/sbs/StudentLearningOutcomes.html

Finally, there will be four In-Service Presentations and Trainings

• August 18th 12:00-1:00 Lib 330- SLO Writing Workshop
• August 18th 2:00-4:00 Lib 328- SLOs Made Easy
• August 20th 2:00-3:00 Lib 329- SLOs: Where we've been & where we're headed
• August 21st 10:00-11:00 Lib 331- SLO Writing workshop

Here are additional information on Saddleback College's Course Level SLOs:

• SLO-Course Level Form
• Guide to Writing Course-Level SLOs
• Annual Report Update on SLO's (2007-2008)
• SLO Course-Level Process (4/08)
• Resources for Writing Course Level SLO's (4/08)
• Letter to the Faculty (4/08)

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Forms

• SLO-Program Level Form
• AUO Form
• Program Level SLO/AUO Writing Worksheet

Handbook

A Guide to Developing and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes and Administrative/Service Unit Outcomes at Saddleback College (revised 9/29/05)

Resources

• ParScore Examples
• SLO Assessment Resources
• IE Presentation on SLO/AUO (1/13/08)
• Student Learning Outcomes:  Where We've Been and Where We're Headed (8/13/07)
• The Strategic Planning Process:  Institutional Effectiveness (8/17/06)
• SLO/AUOs:  Moving through the Columns (8/16/06)
• "SLO Assessment Made Easy" In-Service Presentation (1/3/06)
• Presidents' Breakfast In-Service Presentation (8/16/05)
• Division Meeting In-Service Presentation (8/16/05)
• Letter to the Faculty (8/05)
• SLO Implementation Timeline (2005)
• Proposal for the Establishment of the SLO Implementation Team (6/28/05)

Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

• Completed and In-Progress Program-Level SLO/AUO Assessment Forms

Links

• Institutional Effectiveness Committee