LOAC-AA Meeting, November 4, 2025

• Some departments are made up entirely of part-timers. Full-time should do PLO review entry in SPOL as part if their contractual obligation, but who does it when there are no full-time instructors?
• How about some PD on SLO assessment? When would that be?
• See the program review for Culinary Arts program. It nicely maps the courses to the program PLO’s.
• There is no contract language specifically to reviewing PLO progress, but it is a responsibility because of accreditation. Do we approach this as strictly a compliance issue, or in the spirit of meaningful improvement?
• Institutional Learning Outcomes … who evaluates those?
• By the way, full-time evaluation process is getting redesigned.

LOAC-AA Meeting, December  2, 2025

• You can define Learning Outcomes in Canvas, then link assignments to the Outcome. Once this is set up, you have a clear way to track student’s meeting each outcome. 
• If Program Learning Outcomes and their relationship to SLO’s isn’t obvious, perhaps the PLO isn’t clearly written?
• The RN Clinical Evaluation form is a nice example of how they evaluate student’s performance, and it shows the PLO that each activity is linked to. They use a scale of 0-4, but you could do something simpler 0-1 (not pass/pass).
• Do your student assessments align with the Learning Outcomes? If not, are your assessments truly meaningful?