Student Learning Outcomes Assessment (SLOA) and Faculty Responsibility Student Learning Outcomes Assessment is an ongoing component of the instructional process. All members of the institution share responsibility for student learning. Continuous improvement of learning is a collaborative enterprise upon which the success of instruction depends. The results of SLOA are never used in a punitive manner toward students, faculty, or staff. The data collected during the assessment process is used to provide feedback to both students and faculty, reinforcing and improving educational practices that facilitate learning. Additional Student Outcomes Assessment information can be found on the Academic Affairs webpage of the HCC website (http://www.hagerstowncc.edu/academics/outcomes-assessment). HCC is committed to maintaining a college-wide SLOA plan that will produce clear evidence of student learning. The College provides resources for the systematic documentation of student learning outcomes assessment and improvement of student learning. As part of their professional responsibilities, all faculty are expected to contribute to plans to design and implement SLOA at the course, program, and institutional levels. Full-time faculty are also expected to provide leadership for adjunct faculty teaching sections of a common course and/or when a course is taught only by an adjunct instructor. Each division will have an annual plan and timeline for SLOA projects which involves all faculty and which includes every course and program within the division in a cycle of assessment, data analysis and benchmarking, curriculum improvement, and reassessment. All faculty, full-time and adjunct, are expected to facilitate institutional student learning assessment at the course, program, and institutional level. In 2020, the HCC Board of Trustees approved revised Institutional Learning Outcomes. The revised Institutional Learning Outcomes were developed through the shared governance process and were reviewed, edited, and approved by various constituents across campus. The revised outcomes align with the HCC Mission Statement, and encompass the general education outcomes of the College. It is with these outcomes in mind that Academic Affairs and Student Services programs develop assessable program and course outcomes.
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