2023-2026 Cycle Archive

2023-2026 Assessment Goals

2023-2024: New 3-year cycle

  • Update and post new department 3-year assessment plans
  • Support faculty in their assessment needs
  • Establish strong assessment efforts in first year of new 3-year cycle
  • Fall 2024 report and Spring 2025 Plan
  • SLO Report 2023-2024

2024-2025: Recommit to Assessment

2025-2026: Evaluate & Check-In

  • Evaluate 3-Year Assessment Plan process
  • Propose updated 3-Year Assessment Cycle (2026-2029)
  • Continue using results to guide teaching and learning discussions

3-Year Assessment Plan Template

Below you will find the Assessment Plan Template for 2023-2026 (starts Fall 2023). Each department should align their assessment plans with their respective program review cycle. Check your department's program review cycle on the Instructional Program Review Schedule.

For example, if your department submits a program review Fall 2025, then your department should consider assessing at least one program learning outcome (PLO) at least one fall or spring semester before the program review is due. This way each department can align their assessment plans according to when their program review is due.

Assessment Dialogue & Work Sessions

Date Type of Meeting Resources
6/13/2024

Planning meeting:

  • Continue to review and update department assessment plans
  • Improve reporting of the SLO and PLO assessment results
 Documents

3-Year Assessment Plans 2023 - 2026

Assessment Plan Templates

Assessment Plan Templates can be found on the 3-Year Assessment Plan Template page.

Please submit completed or revised 3-Year Assessment Plans to all participating department faculty members, your Dean, and Paul Roscelli, our college’s Instructional Assessment Coordinator at roscelli@smccd.edu. All current plans are posted below.

Engagement in Assessment

It is mandated by ACCJC, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, that institutions engage in assessment, evaluation and reflection. Additionally, ACCJC states that institutions must systematically and regularly evaluate how well and in what ways it is accomplishing its purposes, including assessment of student learning. Faculty are responsible for assessing their courses (SLOs) and programs (PLOs) (ILOs on the other hand are mapped to SLOs and PLOs in Nuventive Improve and are assessed through other means via the College). Faculty may be asked to participate in assessing ILOs.

Programs track their assessment efforts via a 3-year assessment plan in which all active courses must be assessed. Courses are not considered active if they are not offered due to course cancellations, banked courses, and ones that have been deleted or newly added. However, if a course is cancelled and offered at another time, the course is considered active and must be included in your assessment plan. At least one PLO should be assessed within the 3-year cycle. Every semester should include a class to assess. How the class will be assessed (e.g., which SLO(s), all sections, select sections), should be decided by the department.

Assessment Plans 

3-year assessments plans are listed by division and program name - see below. Click on the program name for the most current version of the plan.

For fall 2024, please follow these steps:

  • Review your program assessment plan.
  • Then, review the most recent Nuventive reports. These are comprehensive excel documents for the whole division, so please select your program with the SORT option. 
  • Submit the newest assessment report in Nuventive. 
  • The most current SLOs for your courses are in Curricunet.

Academic Support & Learning Technologies

Nuventive Reports

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Nuventive Reports

Counseling

Nuventive Reports

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