Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Paralegal Studies AAS Degree |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 5. Master effective communication skills: oral, interpersonal, and written. | How well will students be able to effectively and efficiently communicate with clients, lawyers and judges? |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. Master effective communication skills: oral, interpersonal, and written. | MindTap assessment tool with quiz. | PL 2160 | Students will meet the required grade of 80%, 100% of the time. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. Master effective communication skills: oral, interpersonal, and written. | All students who took this assessment passed with an 80%. Seven students received 100%, one student received an 80%, and one student did not complete the assignment and dropped the course soon after. | Students did well and the results support the original focus area. | This shows us that students are understanding the importance of communication in the legal profession. |
| 5. Master effective communication skills: oral, interpersonal, and written. | |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | We are going to create an assignment in addition to the original assessment. This assignment will have specific scenarios that will require critical thinking skills to produce a thoughtful response and solution to the problem. |
| Type of Change | |
| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | This assignment will be created and will not come from the MindTap learning platform. |
| What data motivated the change? | Our data numbers were met, however students might benefit from more challenging and complex scenarios. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | The interactive scenarios are basic and broad. This assignment will put them into a real situation where they need to provide an immediate answer and solution when communicating on the phone with legal professionals. These scenarios will be real world situations that have happened to working paralegals and will be timed. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 5. Master effective communication skills: oral, interpersonal, and written. | Timed communication quiz (not in MindTap) | PL 2160 |
| 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.