Common Learning Outcomes
黑料专区 is committed to promoting student success by providing educational experiences that prepare students for academic achievement, career readiness, and continued personal and professional growth.
To support this commitment, faculty have identified five Common Learning Outcomes (CLOs) that serve as the foundation of a 黑料专区 education and align with the College's mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities. These outcomes define the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities students are expected to develop throughout their educational experience while providing a framework for assessing student learning and institutional effectiveness.
Developed through a collaborative, faculty-led process, each Common Learning Outcome includes a clear definition and performance indicators aligned with Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. These performance indicators describe progressively more sophisticated levels of learning and closely align with the criteria used in institutional assessment rubrics to evaluate student achievement across programs, disciplines, and learning environments.
1. Critical Thinking
Definition: The ability to engage with problems through reasoning and questioning.
Performance Indicators:
- Creating: Formulates original solutions or approaches to a problem.
- Evaluating: Evaluates the effectiveness of multiple potential solutions to a problem.
- Analyzing: Examines one or more potential solutions to a problem.
- Applying: Applies relevant strategies to work on a problem.
- Understanding: Explains a problem in their own words.
- Remembering: States relevant information about a problem.
- Not Assessed: Not assessed
2. Communicate Effectively
Definition: The ability to engage with information exchange through messaging.
Performance Indicators:
- Creating: Composes original messages adapted to varied conventions.
- Evaluating: Assesses the effectiveness of a message.
- Analyzing: Compares conventions across multiple messages.
- Applying: Employs appropriate conventions to construct an effective message.
- Understanding: Explains how a message's conventions determine its effectiveness.
- Remembering: Recalls the conventions of an effective message.
- Not Assessed: Not assessed
3. Lifelong Learning
Definition: The ability to engage with executive functioning skills, essential mental processes (planning, focus, memory, responsibility, and flexibility), that enable growth.
Performance Indicators:
- Creating: Develops new strategies for improving executive functioning skills.
- Evaluating: Critiques executive functioning skills for strengths and areas for improvement.
- Analyzing: Examines issues related to executive functioning.
- Applying: Applies provided strategies to improve executive functioning skills.
- Understanding: Explains how executive functioning skills contribute to success.
- Remembering: Lists characteristics of executive functioning skills.
- Not Assessed: Not assessed
4. Cultural Competence
Definition: The ability to engage with people from cultures or belief systems different from one's own.
Performance Indicators:
- Creating: Designs culturally competent practices, environments, or solutions.
- Evaluating: Judges the ethical implications of cultural incompetence.
- Analyzing: Analyzes cultural competence in various settings or scenarios.
- Applying: Demonstrates cultural competence in an academic or practical setting.
- Understanding: Describes the relationship between cultural competence and success.
- Remembering: Identifies the characteristics of cultural competence.
- Not Assessed: Not assessed
5. Digital Literacy
Definition: The ability to engage with digital information and tools.
Performance Indicators:
- Creating: Create new digital resources that serve a distinct purpose.
- Evaluating: Evaluates digital resources for suitability and accuracy.
- Analyzing: Differentiates digital resources based on given criteria.
- Applying: Employs specific digital resources to complete a task.
- Understanding: Explains how specific digital resources function.
- Remembering: Identifies digital resources appropriate for a given situation.
- Not Assessed: Not assessed