SLO Subcommittee Report Spring 2006

SLO Subcommittee Report

for College Curriculum Committee

Spring 2006

Subcommittee members:

Marcy Alancraig, English, chair

Michael Mangin, History

Dave Schwartz, Geology and Oceanography

Highlights:

131 courses proposals examined

98 approved – 75% of total

5 approved because they were not required to write SLOs

93 approved who wrote SLOs - 70% of total

33 returned – 25% of total

Note: These percentages are a near reversal of last time when almost 3/4s of all proposals were returned. Whoopee! See detailed report below for lists of specific classes.

Problems: The report we were given did not include Core Competency #4 in the print out. Unfortunately, we did not realize this until afterward and dunned many courses which were actually done correctly. The report also included 40 courses which were not being considered by the Curriculum Committee but which we evaluated, not realizing the problem. Dale says this is a reporting problem that can be fixed.

Recommendations:

1. Fix the report problem!!

2. Core competency #4, Personal Responsibility and Professional Development, should be always included unless the class doesn’t require any student work, student attendance or coming on time. We suggest:

• Changing the curriculum handbook to reflect this
• Altering Fiesta to reflect this