ERIC Number: ED385319
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 89
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Spokane Community College Annual Institutional Assessment Report, 1993-1994.
West, Lynn
During 1993-94, Spokane Community College's Student Learning Outcomes project focused on abilities-based measurements, and specifically, on measurements of the "Responsibility for Learning" ability. Activities included two summer planning retreats; faculty focus groups to discuss the interpretation of "Responsibility for Learning," classroom instruction and assessment related to this ability; faculty forums on such topics as "Can We Teach Responsibility,""Can We Assess Responsibility,""What Impact Will the Responsibility Ability Have on the College?," and "Written Research on Student Responsibility"; guest speakers and workshops; brown bag lunches focusing on last year's pilot projects; faculty/student lunches; and conference attendance. In addition, 13 faculty explored methods to develop student responsibility through carefully designed activities accompanied by specific outcomes measures. The "Responsibility for Learning" ability was defined as students recognizing, understanding, and accepting ownership for their learning by self-assessing, demonstrating, and evaluating behaviors that support the learning situation. Measurable indicators of responsible learning were identified as setting and recognizing priorities, communicating needs and making decisions, understanding and accepting consequences, making and following through on commitments, and demonstrating respect for self and others. This annual report on the Student Learning Outcomes project contains the following materials: (1) graphs showing new student characteristics; (2) illustrations of the responsibility ability process; (3) student forum questionnaires and a summary of survey results on students' and faculty members' perceptions of students' and teachers' responsibilities related to effective learning; (4) a bibliography on responsibility; (5) a Responsibility for Learning planning document; (6) promotional materials from a poster session presented at a conference; (7) an issue of "Learning Connections," a newsletter about teaching and learning at SCC; (8) information on the "Wise-Choice" process, employability, learning journals; and (9) presentation handouts on the process. (KP)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Spokane Community Coll., WA.
Identifiers: Spokane Community College WA


