Division Action Plans

0405 Planning and Evaluation Links

To comply with SACS Principles of Accreditation requirements, Comprehensive Standards 3.3.1 and 3.4.1 (below), each academic division will design and implement an annual plan to assess student learning outcomes.

3.3.1 The institution identifies expected outcomes for its educational programs and its administrative and educational support services; assesses whether it achieves these outcomes; and provides evidence of improvement based on analysis of those results.

3.4.1 The institution demonstrates that each educational program for which academic credit is awarded (a) is approved by the faculty and the administration, and (b) establishes and evaluates program and learning outcomes.

The Index of Plans provided below includes an informational overview including a Division Action Plan (DAP) number, academic division of origin, campus, dean and a brief topical focus for each plan. By clicking on a Division Action Plan (DAP) number you will be linked to current planning and evaluation documents.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT
DIVISION ACTION PLANS (DAPs) FOR 2004-2005

Index of Plans

DAP No.	Academic Division	Campus	Dean	Topical Focus
0405-001	Architecture, Engineering & Technology	West	Hawat	Microcomputer Fundamentals Business Project. To assess the affects of learning Microsoft Office skills on a student’s real-world workplace productivity.
0405-002	Business, Behavioral & Social Sciences	West	Graber	Assessment of Cognitive Writing Skills in Selected Gordon Rule and Non-Gordon Rule Courses. To discover how effective formative assessment is in improving student performance on high-level cognitive writing tasks in a Gordon Rule History class and a non-Gordon Rule U.S. Government class.
0405-003	Business, IT & Public Services	East	Look	Paralegal Skills-Based Project Incorporation into Curriculum. To devise skill-based activities for each course in paralegal program.
0405-004	Business, IT & Social Sciences	Osceola	Husbands	Evaluation of On-line Orientations versus In-class Orientations. To analyze the effectiveness of online orientations versus in-class orientations for SYG 2000 and POS 2041 courses in relation to student completion rates in those courses.
0405-005	Communications	East	Paul	Student Learning in SPC 1600. To explore student learning in SPC1600, a highly enrolled front-door course
0405-006	Communications	West	Borglum	Assessment of Student Persuasive and Informative Speeches. To provide more consistent assessment of student persuasive and informative speeches.
0405-007	Communications, Humanities & Foreign Languages	Osceola	Mulholland	Assessing the Effectiveness of Hybrid Classes. To assess the effectiveness of “hybrid courses” (50% online/50% seat time) in communications and humanities.
0405-008	Credit Programs	Winter Pk.	McArdle	Start Right Project. To increase student pass rates and success in sequential courses based on added academic and social support.
0405-009	Fine Arts	West	Dutkofski	Reading Enhancement. To redesign course structure and delivery so that students will be encouraged to read the assignments and develop higher level comprehension skills in reading.
0405-010	Health Sciences	West	White	#1 Nursing Program Outcomes. To establish satisfactory performance for NCLEX pass rates, graduation rates, job placement rates, and student & employer satisfaction rates. #2 Nursing Curriculum Tracking. To implement a computer-based student tracking system during the 05-06 academic year as required for information collection, planning and program decision making.
0405-011	Humanities & Foreign Languages	East	Diaz	Active Communications Rubric for Basic Spanish (SPN 1000). To enhance the effectiveness of assessing oral development in Basic Spanish (SPN 1000) utilizing an internally developed rubric.
0405-012	Mathematics	East	Phillips	Assessment of Curriculum Continuity. To measure success of students moving through the mathematics curriculum on East Campus by comparing success rates of students entering math classes after taking the pre-requisite course on East Campus to the success rates of students in the same math class overall.
0405-013	Mathematics	West	Armour	The Comp House Family Plan. To form a learning community with the elementary algebra students and their professors to improve the passing rates by 5% in each successive semester on the statewide competency examination given in both the MAT0024C Beginning Algebra and MAT0020C Prep Math Intensive courses.
0405-014	Mathematics & Science	Osceola	Grogan	State Exam Performance: Exponents. To increase student pass rate on MAT0024 state exit exam.
0405-015	Science	East	Williams	Student Biological Knowledge Baseline Data Survey (SBKBDS). To establish a baseline estimation of what students know about biology when they first enter our courses.
0405-016	Science	West	Keiper	“Culture and Sensitivity” Simulation. One of the major goals in Microbiology is to identify the specific microbe that is causing an infection and determine the correct antibiotic to use in treating that infection through a technique called “Culture and Sensitivity” (C&S). To simulate C&S, students were required to identify 2 unknown bacteria using 19 different tests they had used in previous labs.
0405-017	Social Sciences & Physical Education	East	Robinson	College-Wide Exit Examinations for American Sign Language (SPA 2612 & 2613). To implement a college-wide American Sign Language I (SPA 2612) & American Sign Language II (SPA 2613) Exit Examination to increase student achievement rates and preparedness for higher levels of American Sign Language.
0405-018	Valencia Institute	Sand Lake	McNamara	Student Learning Outcomes. To determine if Animal Control officers score sufficiently on the state exam to become employable after completing current curriculum.

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