The Learning Outcomes Assessment Coordinator facilitates and oversees all campus assessment activities.   He or she provides training and support to campus personnel and departments to help them deal with assessment matters.   In addition, the LOAC chairs and/or serves on campus assessment committees, designs campus assessment activities and works with specific campus bodies to refine Cabrillo’s college-wide assessment plan.  A yearly report of LOAC activities is posted on this web page.

The Learning Outcomes Coordinator position was created in the Spring of 2002 and is currently a half-time position through Spring 2010.  The job has evolved along with Cabrillo’s assessment plans and activities.   See History for more details.

Job Responsibilities
   1. Train all Cabrillo faculty through on-going flex workshops and division and departmental meetings and individual sessions to:

• Assess class, program and institutional SLOs (the Core 4).
• Write SLOs for individual courses, degrees and certificates.
• Create assessment plans for occupational programs.
• Create rubrics to assess student work.
• Use assessment data in Instructional Planning.

   2. Work intensively with departments undergoing Instructional Planning through  departmental meetings and individual sessions to:

• Write SLOs for courses and occupational programs.
• Assess course and program SLOs and the Core 4.
• Use assessment data for planning.

   3. Work intensively with areas of Instruction that do not fall into already developed assessment modes such as Learning Skills, the Writing Center and Tutorials to develop assessment plans, methods and reporting forms.

   4. Problem-solve issues that emerge through Instructional Planning assessment activities and present solutions to appropriate bodies.

   5. Serve on the Council for Instructional Planning.

• Read all plans.
• Work with any program chairs whose Student Learning Outcomes assessment portions of the plan need revising.

   6. Work with faculty to revise Student Learning Outcomes in all course proposals seeking approval from the Curriculum Committee.

• Convene the SLO Subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee to evaluate all SLOs in courses before the Curriculum Committee each semester (currently ranging from 150-300 courses each time).
• Present suggestions for revision to the faculty who originated the course; work with them through individual sessions to complete those revisions.
• Write a report each semester that includes each course, its status and revision activities and present it to Curriculum Committee.

   7. Educate the college community about SLO matters.

• Plan Flex activities to present assessment plans and get feedback on them.
• Make presentations to Governing Board, both unions, Senates, Divisions and departments. 
  

   8. Finish campus assessment plan.

• Work intensively with those portions of the campus that do not yet have assessment plans to develop them.
• Write descriptions of all new plans.

   9. Produce materials for SLO web page.

• Prepare campus assessment plan for web posting.
• Revise training manuals to reflect current plans and to use current examples.
• Produce a training manual for Student Services assessment.
• Write any sections of the web page that are currently missing.

  10. Assist with Accreditation Activities.

• Chair the Theme Team.
• Serve as a resource for any standard team writing about SLOs.
• Scrutinize portions of the self-study that deal with SLOs to check for accuracy and evidence.

11.  Work with non-Instructional portions of the college (Student Services, Administrative Services and the Library) to:

• Conduct assessments using appropriate assessment tools.
• Use assessment results in departmental planning.

12.    Create reporting forms for all assessment activities on campus.

• Produce forms for Instruction, Student Services, Library and Administrative Services and present them for approval to appropriate bodies.
• Attempt to maintain some consistency in format and reporting.

13.    Chair SLO Assessment Review Committee (beginning Spring 2007.)

• Read campus assessment reports from all departments going through Instructional Planning or Departmental Review in Instruction, Student Services, Administrative Services (Business Services, President’s Component and administrative areas of Instruction) and the Library (approximately 20 per year).
• Assemble and copy those reports for committee members; provide analysis.
• Write yearly report on campus assessment activities and present it to the Governing Board, CPC, Master Planning Committee, both Senates, both Unions, and other campus bodies.
• Archive these assessment materials for accreditation.
• Initiate dialogue process when needed:

 14.    Assist in the production of the annual Transfer Lunch

• Coordinate with Student Services, the Student Senate and the Transfer Center to fund, plan, publicize, cater and emcee the program.

15.    Serve on Master Planning Committee

• Provide overview on campus assessment activities and data for planning.

16.    Archive all campus assessment activities.

• Keep written records.
• Archive activities on SLO web site.

Annual Reports

• Assessment Coordinator Report 02
• Assessment Coordinator Report 02-03
• Assessment Coordinator Report 04-05
• Assessment Coordinator Report 05-06
• Assessment Coordinator Report 06-07