Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Chemistry AA Degree |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 6. Contribute, as member of a team, to the successful accomplishment of organizational tasks, projects, and goals. | Can students work together in groups to identify an unknown compound? |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. Contribute, as member of a team, to the successful accomplishment of organizational tasks, projects, and goals. | Characterizing elements report sheet (lab report) - identification of unknown compounds (right/wrong answer). | CHEM 1215L | 70% correct answer |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. Contribute, as member of a team, to the successful accomplishment of organizational tasks, projects, and goals. | 82% correct on first cation 91% correct on second cation | Supports original hypothesis | This shows us that students were able to work together successfully as a team to analyze data and correctly identify unknown substances. |
| 6. Contribute, as member of a team, to the successful accomplishment of organizational tasks, projects, and goals. | |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | Given these results, there is little improvement left for this particular protocol. We plan to extend this question to a more complex process to identify unknowns using the calorimetry lab. Students will still be assessed as their ability to work as teams but will have to identify unknowns that require calculations in the process. We are extending from qualitative skills to quantitative skills. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | Yes. Instructors will have to collect data for a different lab but still submit to a microsoft form. We will collect data for the unknowns in the calorimetry lab: specific heat, molar mass, and element identity. The quantitative data will be assessed in a 15% range for error - within 15% of the correct value will be yes the students can successful complete the required task as a team. The actual identity will be assessed as correct or incorrect. |
| What data motivated the change? | High percentages of success under the first protocol, but it only required qualitative analysis skills, not quantitative. We want to integrate both qualitative and quantitative skills which will better assess the students abilities to complete more complex data analysis tasks as a team. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | We will better assess the students abilities to complete more complex data analysis tasks as a team which help us identify areas of weakness for more targeted learning interventions. This also requires more extensive teamwork. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 6. Contribute, as member of a team, to the successful accomplishment of organizational tasks, projects, and goals. | Microsoft form to collect data. | All 1215L sections |
| 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.
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