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What You Gotta Do Before Sundown
What You Gotta Do Before Sundown
Spend your hour ridin’ following an Academic or Cocurricular Program map, then scrawl down your thoughts and send ’em in before sundown. Mosey on down this page to pick a trail and start your Academic or Cocurricular Program Assessment ride.
Trail 1: Academic Program Assessment
Trail 1: Academic Program Assessment
For our Academic Program Pardners
Use the spreadsheet below to find one or more program maps under your area's supervision.
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These maps are visual representations of the program information in the CCTA Program Bank.
Faculty program directors and program leads will be indicating whether courses are Introducing, Reinforcing, or Meeting (IRM) program learning outcomes (PLOs) and aligning these PLOs with the specific course competencies that support them. If they have completed this task for all required courses in the program’s primary prefix, their map will be marked Phase 1 Complete.
As you review a map, consider one or more of the following reflection questions or reflect in another way that’s meaningful to your role. You’ll note your thoughts in the Assessment Survey.
What insights did you gain from viewing the program in this mapped format?
In what ways does the map align, or not, with your understanding of how students move through the program?
How might this map be useful in your work with students, faculty, or programs?
What questions or thoughts do you have about the IRM or competency alignments?
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Trail 2: Cocurricular Program Assessment
Trail 2: Cocurricular Program Assessment
For our Cocurricular Program Pardners
We are looking to collaborate with select Student Affairs and Academic Affairs partners over the coming years to support meaningful cocurricular program assessment. To guide this work, we’ve drafted a Cocurricular Program Map modeled after our Academic Program Maps. We would love your feedback on this draft.
This tool is designed to help you document the structured learning already embedded in your programs. If you are looking to develop new learning opportunities, we’re here to support that too.
Our focus is on cocurricular areas that already have clear structures, goals, and learning outcomes, not one-time events or informal activities.
To make this as simple as possible, we plan to use a brief Google Form to collect assessment data, with the goal of automating reporting within the mapping spreadsheet itself.
This draft map is an early version of a tool we hope will be useful to cocurricular educators, supervisors, and support staff. Your insights will help us improve the structure and make it more relevant to your work. If you’re willing, we invite you to explore the template and try a mock entry based on a cocurricular experience you’re familiar with.
Thank you for being part of this early conversation. Your feedback will help shape how GCC supports cocurricular learning across the college.
As you review the map template and instructions, consider one or more of the following reflection questions or reflect in another way that’s meaningful to your role. You’ll note your thoughts in the Assessment Survey.
What aspects of the template made sense to you, and where did you feel unsure or need more clarity?
Do you/how do you see this template being used in your area or by those you support?
Would completing this template for one of your own cocurricular experiences be feasible? Why or why not?
What changes would make this tool more useful or accessible for the people expected to complete it?
(Advanced) Try completing a mock entry for a cocurricular experience you're familiar with. Click the USE TEMPLATE button to make a copy from this link. What did you learn from that process?
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