Archived Assessment Report
| Program | Community Health Worker Certificate |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 10. Demonstrate the ability of interpersonal skills within the working and community environment. | Does our CHW 1190 Practicum notebook adequately assess the students' interpersonal skills in the workplace? Create or adopt a professional behavior rubric to assess this. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10. Demonstrate the ability of interpersonal skills within the working and community environment. | Professional Behavior Assessment Tool | CHW 1190 | using professional behavior assessment tool twice in practicum course, students will achieve a score of " competent" in 6 of the 10 professional behaviors by the end of the CHW 1190 course. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10. Demonstrate the ability of interpersonal skills within the working and community environment. | The results from the skills checklists for the students did show that 100% of the students were "competent" based on the critera clear displayed. It is a small program so the results were focused to ensure the compliance of all students registered for the course and to ensure meeting the delieverables. | These results support to the focus area in having the students competent in the practicum objectives, experiential learning in the agencies, and overall course leeaning requirements and skills. | The data from the students show that this class is fulfilling what it needs to do in order to prepare the students for the real world experience. This program is small and can really focus on the outcomes and learning objectives of each student. |
| 10. Demonstrate the ability of interpersonal skills within the working and community environment. | |
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| Describe the change that was implemented. | The department will continue to update the information in the course to ensure relevancy in the profession. The profession is changing and the program deliverables need to concurrently change to meet the needs of the industry. |
| Type of Change |
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| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | None. Just adding or modifying profession focused areas based on changes. |
| What data motivated the change? | Updating the checklists to reflect any industry changes. This will allow the students to focus on these areas while in the off site agencies. |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | These changes will be good when identified. We want the students to be up to date and learn current information that is happening in the real world with clients. Being proactive allows us to ensure our students are prepared. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 10. Demonstrate the ability of interpersonal skills within the working and community environment. | Post checklist to ensure the students experienced the contents in the assigned agencies. | The course assessed the second round was CHW1190. |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10. Demonstrate the ability of interpersonal skills within the working and community environment. | The results showed that our students are up to date in what is needed to ensure industry standards being met. The information collected proved that what we are teaching is in alignment with what is needed to be successful in a CHW job in an agency or hospital setting. | Continue to ensure that we are using the most up to date information in our curriculum as the industry evolves. Checking in with agency partners routinely to make sure we are spot on with what we are teaching and focusing on in our curriculum. |
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.