Integrating and Assessing Student Learning Outcomes

AMATYC

Anaheim, California

October/November 2013

Dr. Kim Tsai Granger

St. Louis CC

“Backwards Design”

Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach

to Designing College Courses

L. Dee Fink

STLCC – Wildwood Campus• STLCC is a four-campus institution.• Our Student Learning Outcomes

(SLOs) are created and agreed on district-wide.

Wildwood campus

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We wanted to create a final exam that would assess the SLOs for our course.

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We started with each SLO and created exam items that assessed the SLO.

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Rather than create a “practice test”, we created a “Final Exam Review”.

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Each SLO was listed, followed by several example questions.

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The majority of the exam is multiple choice and graded on

a ScanTron machine.

An Item Analysis is done to see which questions are being

missed the most often.

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Is it the Test Item

or the SLO ?

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If it is the SLO, what adjustments

need to be made?

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• Adjustments to MML Assignments?

• Adjustments to Content Delivery?

Questions & Comments

KGranger @ stlcc.eduSt. Louis Community College – Wildwood Campus