Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Biology AS Degree |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 6. Communicate effectively. | Can students effectively communicate data they have collected, analyzed analyze and summarize in the form a written lab report? |
| 7. Collaborate with peers to accomplish tasks. | Can students work in small groups of 3 to 4 students to complete a 5 week long project that they design, implement and analyze and write up in a collective lab report. |
| 8. Relate science to personal, social, or global impact. | Can students relate scientific research on an important crop species to larger social and global impacts (i.e. food availability, climate change)? |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. Communicate effectively. | Did students get a 70% or better in the discussion section of written lab report summarizing their work on a 5 week project on a controlled experiment. | 2110L | Student data can be compared over several semesters as improvements to the project evolve. |
| 7. Collaborate with peers to accomplish tasks. | Did students get a 70% or better overall on a group lab report summarizing their collective work on a 5 week project? | 2110L | Student data can be compared over several semesters as improvements to the project evolve. |
| 8. Relate science to personal, social, or global impact. | Did students get a 70% or better on the introduction of a group lab report that relates the importance of their study species to a large social or global problem? | 2110L | Student data can be compared over several semesters as improvements to the project evolve. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. Communicate effectively. | 85% of students were able to meet this learning outcome. | The data support the learning outcome. | This show us that students are able to communicate with each other and present their finding in a scientific format. |
| 7. Collaborate with peers to accomplish tasks. | 82% were able to meet this learning objective. | The results support the learning outcome. | This shows up that this project supports the learning outcome. |
| 8. Relate science to personal, social, or global impact. | 81% of the students were able to meet this outcome. | The results are consistent with the original focus area. | This result was lower than expected. This may reflect the difficulty students have reading and understanding primary, scientific literature and relating it to larger concepts. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
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| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Second Round Results | Intepretation of Results, Pre- and Post-Change | Follow up questions, possible next steps |
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Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.