Outcomes Assessment Committee
Charge
To provide oversight for the College’s outcome assessment processes and documents in order to improve student learning and achievement. More specifically, the purpose of the Outcomes Assessment Committee is to:
- ensure that outcomes assessment is ongoing, systematic, and used to assess and improve student learning and achievement
- promote ongoing, pervasive, and robust dialogue about student learning
- ensure the ongoing evaluation and fine-tuning of organizational structures to support student learning
- maintain student learning improvement as a visible priority in all practices and structures across the College
- ensure that student learning and administrative unit outcomes are specifically linked to program reviews
Outcomes Assessment Resources
Cerro Coso Assessment Processes
- OAC Handbook (HTML) | OAC Handbook (PDF)
- Rubric for Assessing Outcomes within Program Reviews
- SLO Assessment Rubric 2022-2023
- SLO examples
Best Practices and Guidelines
- Academic Senate CCC - SLO Terminology Glossary
- Academic Senate CCC - Guiding Principles for SLO Assessment
- Academic Senate CCC - Data 101
- ACCJC Quarterly Newsletters
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Oxnard College handout - Assessments are not grades
- Developing and Using Rubrics to Assess Student Learning
- Assessing Learning in the time of COVID
Developing Rubrics
Developing Surveys
Meeting Chair
Chair: Dawn Ward
Composition
- Student Learning Outcomes Coordinator (faculty) - chair
- Administrative representatives (2)
- Faculty representatives (6)
- Classified representatives (2)
- Student Representative (1)
At least one representative, from any group, should be from a campus other than the main campus.
Evaluation and Assessment
- Annual self-evaluation of the committee’s goals, scored with a rubric by the Institutional Effectiveness Committee
- Annual satisfaction survey of the college community through the Strategic Planning Survey
