Learning Outcomes
Introduction
Riverland Community College takes pride in its long-established plan for student learning assessment. A significant amount of data and evidence has been collected over the years and since FY16 when we moved to a web-based assessment collection system, the data has proven even more valuable in our ongoing efforts to provide "best-in-class" teaching and learning.
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Project (SLOAP) data collected prior to Fall 2015 is available in D2L/Brightspace and in the Riverland Community College Academic Affairs Office. Data beyond Fall 2015 is available to authorized users on the Riverland SLOAP site. Hard copies of SLOAP data collected prior to 2011 are housed in the Academic Affairs Office.
Core Themes and Discipline Areas/MnTC Outcomes Assessment
Using the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) as a model, Riverland has designed each course in its curriculum to fall in to one of five Core Themes (Goals 2, 7, 8, 9, 10 below). Liberal Arts courses in the MnTC curriculum have their place in one of the five remaining MnTC Goal Areas (1, 3, 4, 5, 6), and are defined by the college as Discipline Areas. Each Core Theme and each Discipline Area goal has four to six associated student competencies. Riverland designed SLOAP as a systematic process and tool for measuring these competencies.
Riverland Core Themes for Classroom-Level Student Learning Outcomes
GOAL 2: Critical Thinking - Riverland graduates are able to unify factual, creative, rational, and value-sensitive modes of thought.
GOAL 7: Human Diversity - Riverland graduates understand individual and group differences.
GOAL 8: Global Perspectives - Riverland graduates understand the growing interdependence of nations and peoples and develop their ability to apply a comparative perspective to cross-cultural social, economic and political experiences.
GOAL 9: Ethical and Civic Responsibility - Riverland graduates have the capacity to identify, discuss, and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of political, social, and personal life and to understand the ways in which they can exercise responsible and productive citizenship.
GOAL 10: People and the Environment - Riverland graduates understand today's complex environmental challenges.
visit this link to see all competencies associated with each Core Theme
Riverland Discipline Area Goals for Classroom-Level Student Learning Outcomes (Liberal Arts areas)
GOAL 1: Communication - Riverland graduates utilize the English language effectively and read, write, speak, and listen critically.
GOAL 3: Natural Sciences - Riverland graduates understand natural science principles and methods of scientific inquiry.
GOAL 4: Mathematics/Logical Reasoning - Riverland graduates know mathematical and logical modes of thinking.
GOAL 5: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences - Riverland graduates know how historians and social and behavioral scientists discover, describe, and explain the behaviors and interactions among individuals, groups, institutions, events, and ideas.
GOAL 6: The Humanities and the Fine Arts - Riverland graduates know human conditions and human cultures, in relation to behavior, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought.
visit this link to see all competencies associated with each Discipline Area Goal
Reports Available
SLOAP Plans and Responses 2011-2018
This report shows the number of SLOAP plans and responses faculty created, administered, and reported results on between Fall 2011 and Spring 2018. This is further broken down by plans from SLOAP Phase IV (FY12-15) and Phase V (FY16-18). Refer to the color key below the graphic. Furthermore, specific learning outcomes (labeled as A, B, C, D, E, F) in each Goal area below can be found on this site's Faculty Resources page.
SLOAP Results January 2016-December 2019
This report gives a summary of results from assessments measuring student learning outcomes in each of the Riverland Core Theme and Discipline Areas administered between Spring 2016 and Fall 2019 semesters. The report shows 159 cumulative results from 172 assessment plans measuring student learning and broken down by the 48 learning outcomes embedded in the ten Discipline Areas and Core Themes.