Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Computing Technology	Reported By: C. Patterson
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: use technology as a teaching and learning tool.
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate the ability to use computers and other electronic technology as a means to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate ability to use discipline specific technology to enhance their understanding of the discipline.
Outcome Assessment: In Math 1111 (College Algebra), students will graph a polynomial function with a graphing utility to determine the intervals where the function is increasing, decreasing, or constant as a common question on the final exam. Final answer will be written in interval notation. This question will be graded by a faculty member and assigned a 0, 1, or 2. A “0” will be assigned if a question is attempted but the work is incorrect. A “1” will be assigned if the work is partially correct. A “2” will be assigned if the work and the answer are both correct.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 75% of all students taking the final exam will attempt the question. Secondary Performance Target: Of those attempting the question, 70% of students will score a 1 or 2.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Location: Floyd C’ville Marietta Acworth Carrollton Dist. Learn. Overall Primary Performance Target: NR NR NR NR NR NR 83% Secondary Performance Target: 33% 51% 32% 8% 45% 31% 33%
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary Performance Target not met. Instructors of Math 1111 will spend one additional class meeting on using a graphing utility to graph a polynomial function and to determine the intervals where the function is increasing, decreasing, or constant. Instructors will emphasize use of interval notation and that intervals are written with respect to the domain (x-values).
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Computing Technology	Reported By: C. Patterson
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: use technology as a teaching and learning tool.
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate the ability to use computers and other electronic technology as a means to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate ability to use discipline specific technology to enhance their understanding of the discipline.
Outcome Assessment: In Math 1113 (Precalculus), students will graph a trigonometric function with a graphing utility; determine the x-intercepts and y-intercepts in the interval [0, 2p) as a common question on the final exam. This question will be graded by a faculty member and assigned a 0, 1, or 2. A “0” will be assigned if a question is attempted but the work is incorrect. A “1” will be assigned if the work is partially correct. A “2” will be assigned if the work and the answer are both correct.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 75% of all students taking the final exam will attempt the question. Secondary Performance Target: Of those attempting the question, 70% of students will score a 1 or 2.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Location: Floyd C’ville Marietta Dist. Learn. Overall Primary Performance Target: NR NR NR NR 94% Secondary Performance Target: 61% 52% 91% 50% 58% at Acworth or Carrollton-ATP in Fall semester 2005.)
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary Performance Target not met. Instructors of Math 1113 will spend one additional class meeting on using a graphing utility to graph a trigonometric function and interpreting its x-intercepts and y-intercepts in the interval [0, 2p).
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Computing Technology	Reported By: C. Patterson
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: use technology as a teaching and learning tool
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate the ability to use computers and other electronic technology as a means to achieve greater learning efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate ability to prepare course assignments in a variety of courses using computer technology.
Outcome Assessment: An online questionnaire will be distributed to and completed by English 1101 students near the end of Fall Semester which has students evaluate their use of MS Word when completing essays for the course.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: At least 75% of students will respond with “Yes” to at least three of the five items on the questionnaire. Secondary Performance Target: No more than 15% of students completing on-line evaluation will mark “No” for two or more of the items on the questionnaire.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): During both Fall and Spring Semesters, the number of students participating in the survey was not high enough to yield useful assessments. However, participation rates did improve from approx. 25% in fall to 33% in spring. The survey will be distributed again both semesters of the upcoming year, with recommended actions reflecting the need to increase faculty/student participation.
Recommended Actions: -include a question on the survey asking students to identify their teachers by name so participation can be better tracked -include information in part-time faculty orientation on the importance of participation in I.E. activities
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Computing Technology	Reported By: S.Vines / C. Patterson
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: Students will use technology as a teaching and learning tool
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate the ability to use computers and other electronic technology as a means to achieve greater learning efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate ability to use appropriate technology to enhance information literacy.
Outcome Assessment: BI classes were offered and taught on all campuses by librarians. The classes included instruction regarding the information literacy and how to use the GALILEO and GIL databases, and the Internet. After the instruction, a portion of those classes (Floyd students) received end-of-class exercises produced by librarian(s) and/or instructor(s) requiring the use of computers to answer at least 70% of the questions. The graded exercises were returned to the students to offer them feedback and additional instruction.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 20% of all students will participate in a Bibliographic Instruction (BI) workshop. Secondary Performance Target: 80% of students (Floyd) will score a 70 or above on an end-of class exercise completed after the BI workshop.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Location: Floyd C’ville Acworth Marietta Her. Hall WGA CBC etc. Overall Primary Performance Target: 22% 8% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 10% Secondary Performance Target: 62% NA NA NA NA NA NA 62%
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target not met. Secondary Performance Target not met. 1) Librarians will review the end-of-class exercises in order to determine if a standardized set of questions can be used on each campus. 2) Librarians will continue to analyze GALILEO usage statistics to determine how they measure this outcome.
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team: Computing Technology	Reported By: J. Gillespie / C. Patterson
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: use technology as a teaching and learning tool
Unit/Team Goal: Students will demonstrate the ability to use computers and other electronic technology as a means to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in learning.
Expected Outcome: Students will demonstrate ability to use discipline specific technology to enhance their understanding of the discipline.
Outcome Assessment: Students in ACCT 2102 (Managerial Accounting) will prepare a capital budget using technology.
Performance Targets: Primary Performance Target: 70% of the students will accumulate 70% of the points possible on the project. Secondary Performance Target: 70% of the students will be able to use Microsoft Excel fundamentals (70% or greater of points) in preparing the problem.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Primary Performance Target: 100% of students scored above 70% (100% for all campuses overall n=70, Cartersville n=47. Marietta n=47, Rome n=26). Secondary Performance Target: 100% of the students were able to use Microsoft Excel fundamentals (100% for all campuses overall n=70, Cartersville n=47. Marietta n=47, Rome n=26).
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met. No further action required. Secondary Performance Target met. No further action required.
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