Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness

CASC's academic assessment model features a course-embedded assessment of student learning. In each course, student learning outcomes (SLOs) are assessed by direct measures and associated targets that are incorporated into the course curriculum. Throughout each semester, faculty employ assessment software to enter findings that assess whether those SLOs were met or not met. Based upon general education curriculum content, specific course SLOs parallel an associated general education outcome (GEO). Therefore, the SLO findings also indicate the performance of the GEOs. For the 2016-2017 academic year, a pilot method of utilizing sampling within the course-embedded method to assess GEOs was implemented. Instead of amass aggregation of findings, this method of assessment not only involves participation of academic division chairs and full-time faculty in producing a quantitative measure of GEO performance, but also provides an intimate and meaningful insight into the functionality of the course-embedded assessment components.