Assessment Instructions
Written Communication Assessment Instructions – VIDEO
Civic Knowledge and Engagement Assessment Instructions – VIDEO
Step 1: Select Outcomes and Add to Canvas
Review the outcome descriptions and rubrics below to determine if any of your course assignments assess these outcomes. Canvas has a feature that allows instructors to use a simple rubric(s) to assess outcomes while simultaneously grading student work. Even if you don’t use Canvas for your selected assignment, you can still use Canvas to assess the College Outcomes. You may assess any or all of the outcomes (may be prompted to log into Palomar Single Sign-on):
- Review the outcome descriptions and rubrics below to determine if any of your course assignments assess these outcomes. Canvas has a feature that allows instructors to use a simple rubric(s) to assess outcomes while simultaneously grading student work. Even if you don’t use Canvas for your selected assignment, you can still use Canvas to assess the College Outcomes. You may assess any or all of the outcomes (may be prompted to log into Palomar Single Sign-on):
- Descriptions and Rubrics for Critical Thinking (Coming soon)
- Descriptions and Rubrics for Civic Knowledge and Engagement
- Descriptions and Rubrics for Written Communication
- Instructions for adding outcomes to a course and assignment in Canvas
- Canvas Outcome Rubric
Step 2: Add Outcomes to an Assignment in Canvas
Once you’ve decided which outcomes to assess and which assignment(s) to use, add the outcome rubrics to an assignment, discussion, or quiz in Canvas. If students are not submitting the assignment via Canvas, you can still create an assignment in Canvas to use to assess the college outcome.
Step 3: Assess Outcomes in Canvas
As you grade each student’s assignment, you’ll indicate whether they’ve met the outcome using the outcome rubric that you attached to the course and assignment. Students will get immediate feedback on their progress towards meeting the outcome!
- Canvas Outcomes Instructions
- How to Video
- Canvas Outcome Rubric
- How to Use the Learning Mastery Gradebook
Step 4: Reflect on Student Learning
While direct assessment of student work can tell us whether or not students were able to meet an outcome, it doesn’t always explain why students met, or did not, meet an outcome. And it may not give us the qualitative feedback needed to make improvements. After you have completed your assessment of the college outcomes, please take a moment to complete this survey. The link may prompt you to log in through the Palomar Single Sign-on.
FAQs
What will happen with the assessment data?
Results from this assessment will be aggregated to analyze students’ overall achievement of these outcomes as well as disaggregated by disproportionate impact groups, units completed, online/face to face, daytime/evening, etc. to identify salient differences in how we are supporting students’ achievement of these outcomes. Student names and course instructor information will be kept confidential and removed from the data before any analysis takes place. Please see previous GEILO assessment reports.
When is it due?
By the end of the Fall 2022 semester. You may apply the outcome rubrics on assignments up through Fall final exams week. After assessing student work using the outcome rubrics in Canvas, please complete the course instructor survey.
INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES
Written Communication:
7 Easy Ways to Support Writing in Any Content Area This list includes showing students samples of the writing you are asking them to do and spending some time in class evaluating the samples using a rubric to help students to internalize the standards you have for their writing and what you value most highly when you are evaluating their work.
Evaluating and Grading Multilingual Writing offers three examples of how professors approach evaluating and giving feedback to students who are writing in a language that they are still learning. The author gives pros and cons for each approach.
Efficiently Grading Student Writing offers tips for spending more time giving and guiding assignments so that you can spend less time grading, it also recommends limiting your comments to “teachable moments” rather than commenting on all errors.
Grading Written Assignments provides a sample checklist to help focus your grading and increase effectiveness.
Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback If you spend a lot of time writing comments to students, you may want to consider building in a revision process like the one described here to make your comments worthwhile.
What Do Professors Really Say about College Writing? A report from focus groups with faculty across the disciplines.
The Word on College Reading and Writing is an open textbook that you can adapt or revise to fit your students’ needs without asking for additional permission from the authors. This textbook is well reviewed by college professors and could be used in any class to supplement your discussions about your expectations for students’ writing.
Civic Knowledge and Engagement:
Strategies for the Incorporation of Civic Education in the Classroom
Facing History and Ourselves, Assignments related to civic dilemmas and civic engagement
Assessment Reports
Contact
For assistance assessing the outcomes or to learn more, contact SLO coordinator, Mark Bealo