Institutional Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Summary
(AY 2012-2013)
Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs)
At the completion of the Institutional Student Learning Outcomes, the student will be able to:
- Effective oral communication: Capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
- Effective written communication: Development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.
- Critical thinking: A habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
- Problem solving: Capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
- Intercultural knowledge and competence: A set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.
- Information literacy: The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
- Foundations and skills for life-long learning: Purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.
- Quantitative reasoning: Ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.
ISLO Assessment Report Summary
Previous ISLO report can be viewed at this link:
wiki.comfsm.fm/Academic_Programs/Institutional_Level_Student_Learning_Outcomes
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