Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Visualizing the Standards: More Wordles
Standards Wordles on Picassa:
Visualizing the Standards: Interactive Wordles
Thoughtful Institution Wordle:
Monday, June 22, 2009
Visualizing the Standards: Interactive Word Trees
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Visualizing the Standards: Interactive Tag Clouds
One Word Tag Cloud:
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
ACCJC Requirements for Institutional Mission Statements and Learning Outcomes
Comparison of the current requirements to the current presentations of institutional missions and outcomes by ACCJC accredited colleges reveals a wide range in the apparent degree of understanding, application, and interpretation of these requirements. It appears many colleges in the region need to review and revise the wording or presentation of their institutional mission and outcomes statements to ensure or clarify that they meet current ACCJC requirements.
Links to the current institutional mission and outcomes statements of colleges in the ACCJC region can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/site/thefollowupreport/Home/institutional-mission-and-learning-outcomes
TFR_InstitutionalMissionILOs_2009-06-09_TVT
Monday, June 8, 2009
TFR Guide to the AAHE Principles of Good Practice
This TFR Guide is a copy of the nine principles of good practice for assessing student learning developed by the Assessment Forum of the American Association for Higher Education, AAHE, to improve post-secondary education outcomes. The AAHE principles are probably the most widely reproduced assessment guide in the educational community.
TFR_Guide_Assessment_AAHEprinciples_2009-06-04TVT
TFR Guide to Admissions Department Assessment
This TFR Guide is a collection of sample mission statements, goals, objectives, performance indicators, Student Learning Outcomes, other outcomes, and assessments from various colleges to help student admissions or enrollment administrators, advisors, counselors, or representatives design, plan and achieve better department program reviews and outcomes assessments.
TFR_Guide_Assessment_Admissions_2007-06-26TVT
TFR Guide to Career Services Assessment
This TFR Guide is a collection of sample mission statements, goals, objectives, performance indicators, Student Learning Outcomes, other outcomes, and assessments from various colleges to help student career services or job placement administrators, advisors, counselors, or staff design, plan, and achieve better department program reviews and outcomes assessments.
TFR_Guide_Assessment_CareerServices_2007-06-25TVT
TFR Guide to Financial Aid Progam Assessment
TFR_Guide_Assessment_FinancialAid_2007-06-25TVT
TFR Guide to New Student Orientation Assessment
TFR_Guide_Assessment_Orientation_2007-06-27TVT
TFR Guide to IT Services Assessment
TFR_Guide_Assessment_ITservices_2007-06-26TVT
TFR Guide to Registrar Office Assessment
TFR_Guide_Assessment_Registrar_2007-06-26TVT
TFR Guide to Retention Program Assessment
This TFR Guide is a collection of sample mission statements, goals, objectives, performance indicators, Student Learning Outcomes, other outcomes, and assessments from various colleges to help student retention advisors, academic counselors, administrators, and staff design, plan and achieve better department program reviews and outcomes assessments.
TFR_Guide_Assessment_Retention_2007-06-25TVT
TFR Guide to Residential Life Assessments
TFR_Guide_Assessment_ResidentialLife_2007-06-26TVT
TFR Guide to Writing SLOs
TFR_Guide_WritingSLOs_2007-06-21_v2009-05-31TVT
TFR Guide to Bloom's Taxonomy
TFR_Guide_Bloom's_Rev2007-06-11_v2009-06-04TVT
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Web 2.0 in CCC assessment, planning, and accreditation efforts
I wonder if the experiments by some California community colleges with free Web 2.0 services in their assessment, planning, and accreditation efforts are related to the state's persistent budget problems. See:
- The Irvine Valley College SLO resource site on WordPress;
- The Mt. San Jacinto College 2009-10 catalog on Issuu;
- The Rio Hondo College institutional planning survey on SurveyMonkey;
- The Solano Community College show cause report and program review documents wikis on PBworks and the accreditation progress and basic skills blogs on Blogger;
- The Folsom Lake College strategic planning blog through Blogger;
- The Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District think tank info bank on Google Sites;
- The Grossmont College SLO toolkit on Scribd
(Colleges outside of California are also using Web 2.0 resources. For example, a search for "SLOs" on Scribd also found several assessment documents from Malcolm X College in Chicago.)
Assessment Glossary
The current effort to create a basic standardized nomenclature for SLO assessment in California can be found at the CCC Network for Student Learning Outcomes Assessment website (they also have a new blog).
Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Institutional Mission and Learning Outcomes
Sanction Letter Recommendations
Action Letters and Reports
ACCJC Actions and Accreditation Status
Introducing The Follow-Up Report
The Follow-Up Report (https://sites.google.com/site/thefollowupreport/) was created by Todd V. Titterud to share information with friends and colleagues in ACCJC accredited colleges. It is a follow-up on the implementation of the 2002 Standards and the strengthened enforcement of the two-year rule. It was created as a resource to help colleagues understand current trends in Commission actions and to succeed in their own efforts to achieve continuous institutional learning and improvement.
The blog will post overviews of The Follow-Up Report (TFR) pages and updates; TFR publications; and links to and/or reviews/overviews of related websites and online publications.