Spring 2009
Committee:
Educational Policies Committee
Whereas, Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs) are the intuitive aspects of education, like using effective communication, critical thinking and sustainable philosophies, that the breadth and depth of community college education inspires students to carry forward in their lives;
Whereas, Federal, state and local educational districts ubiquitously support the use and assessment of student learning outcomes, and more specifically the use of institutional learning outcomes, to identify a school's affect on the motivational aspects of a student’s propensity to be successful in society and life;
Whereas, Institutional student learning outcomes and the assessment processes that are designed to quantify institutional learning, identify how community colleges foster socially responsible behaviors in students; and
Whereas, Evaluating how faculty socially interact with students, which has been demonstrated by "student-involvement" research to be helpful in understanding how students develop interests in cooperative behavior, critical thinking, and social responsibility, is vital to the institutional learning outcome assessment process;
Resolved, The Student Senate for California Community Colleges collect and identify educational research that supports assessing institutional student learning outcomes as a method of bettering education through student involvement and mentorship pedagogues; and
Resolved, The Student Senate for California Community Colleges engage faculty and administrators throughout the California Community College system, including the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, in discussions of the research, knowledge, wisdom and benefits that assessing institutional student learning outcomes both currently bring, and will bring about further, (if greater emphasis is placed on this activity) to the educational system.
Whereas, Federal, state and local educational districts ubiquitously support the use and assessment of student learning outcomes, and more specifically the use of institutional learning outcomes, to identify a school's affect on the motivational aspects of a student’s propensity to be successful in society and life;
Whereas, Institutional student learning outcomes and the assessment processes that are designed to quantify institutional learning, identify how community colleges foster socially responsible behaviors in students; and
Whereas, Evaluating how faculty socially interact with students, which has been demonstrated by "student-involvement" research to be helpful in understanding how students develop interests in cooperative behavior, critical thinking, and social responsibility, is vital to the institutional learning outcome assessment process;
Resolved, The Student Senate for California Community Colleges collect and identify educational research that supports assessing institutional student learning outcomes as a method of bettering education through student involvement and mentorship pedagogues; and
Resolved, The Student Senate for California Community Colleges engage faculty and administrators throughout the California Community College system, including the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, in discussions of the research, knowledge, wisdom and benefits that assessing institutional student learning outcomes both currently bring, and will bring about further, (if greater emphasis is placed on this activity) to the educational system.