Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
The college meets this standard.
Planning Agenda
College Administration working in collaboration with the Distance Education Committee
will take steps to plan and implement student and instructor evaluation procedures for
distance education courses during the 2012-13 academic year.
Working collaboratively with the Vice President of Information and Technology Resources,
the Distance Education Committee will facilitate training and evaluation of the pending
transition of course management delivery software from eCollege to Etudes during spring
2013.
The interim Dean of Institutional Planning and Effectiveness will work with faculty and
administration to identify research tools that may be used to determine why success and
retention in online courses is lower than the rates in traditional courses in some discipline
areas. This data will be integrated into the regular program review of disciplines offering
online courses. The process and timeline will be determined during the strategic planning
process that will be completed by June 2013.
II.A.1.c
The institution identifies student learning outcomes for courses, programs, certificates, and
degrees; assesses student achievement of those outcomes; and uses assessment results to
make improvements.
Descriptive Summary
The combined work of the Student Learning Outcomes Committee and Program Planning
and Assessment Committee has provided the structure for the development and assessment of
the college‘s course-level, program-level, and institutional learning outcomes as well as the
processes needed to ensure their effectiveness. Discipline faculty wrote course-level
outcomes (SLOs) for all courses in all programs at Hartnell. (IIA.3) The Curriculum
Committee requires that course-level outcomes be included in the course development or
revision process. Program outcomes for all degree and certificate programs at Hartnell are
published in the college Catalog. (IIA.2) Through CurricUNET, faculty align course-level
outcomes to program-level outcomes and to institutional outcomes. (IIA.6)
ASSESSMENT OF COURSE AND PROGRAM-LEVEL OUTCOMES
Faculty have identified and assessed course and program-level outcomes, have analyzed
resultant data within discipline and division meetings, and are able to base course and
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