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Assessment of the ISLOs in the Majors (AIM)

 

Institutional student learning outcomes (ISLOs) are those skills we believe all students should have whether they graduate from Chattanooga State Community College.

 

What do all degree-seeking students have in common? 

General education courses.

 

Therefore, we sample and score student evidence annually across the general education curriculum to assess what our students are learning in relation to our ISLOs.  Student evidence is also collected from major-specific requirements for those programs that have aligned program-level student learning outcomes (PSLOs) with ISLOs.  

 

This faculty-driven process is known as the AIM process. The Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research & Planning (IERP) administratively supports the AIM Teams and members throughout the assessment cycle.  Faculty members serve as team leads, evaluators/scorers, and reviewers.  

 

The AIM cycle is typically a two-year process in which year 1 is the scoring year and year 2 is the review year.  Scoring year activities include solicitation of instructors who have assignments aligned with the ISLO, reviewing the rubric, norming the rubric, scoring evidence (student artifacts).  Review activities include in-depth discussions of the assessment reports, results, processes, rubric, assignments, etc. that factor into the next scoring year.  The result of a review year are improvements to be implemented within the following scoring year activities and communication with appropriate academic division and department leaders on curricular or instructional improvement opportunities.

 

See the current 5-year schedule for AIM Teams.

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.