Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team:  Humanities	Reported By: F. Minor
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 20005-2006
Related College Goal: be innovative in our approach to teaching, learning, and support services
Unit/Team Goal:  Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and understand significant ideas from a variety of cultures, eras, and genres and to express those ideas clearly in writing.
Expected Outcome:  Students will be able to write personal, cogent interpretations about a work of art.
Outcome Assessment: Students taking Art Appreciation classes at Georgia Highlands College will write a short essay in which they analyze a work of art.
Performance Targets:  Primary Performance Target: 80% will achieve a grade of 70 or better. Secondary Performance Target: Of the ones who made 70 or better, 80% will use appropriate terminology.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Location:                                         Floyd                     Distance Learning                Overall Primary Performance Target:         65%                               50% 58% Secondary Performance Target:     60%                               67%                           64%
Recommended Actions:   Primary Performance Target not met. Secondary Performance Target not met.  Beginning summer session 2006, the instructor will spend more of class-time discussing analysis issues. I will also assign more writing projects that focus on the appropriate use of terminology and concepts. The same assessment tool will be used during the next semesters.
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Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team:  Humanities	Reported By: F. Minor
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: be innovative in our approach to teaching, learning, and support services
Unit/Team Goal:  Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and understand significant ideas from a variety of cultures, eras, and genres and to express those ideas clearly in writing.
Expected Outcome:   Students will be able to place literary and other artistic works into a historical context.
Outcome Assessment: Students taking a combined World Civilization/World Literature course will write an essay (evaluated by a rubric created for this course) in which they will discuss both history and literature. The data collection will take place in Fall semester, the only semester when this combined course is offered.
Performance Targets:  Primary Performance Target: 80% will achieve a grade of 70 or better. Secondary Performance Target: Of the ones who made 70 or better, 80% effectively discussed both history and literature.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Primary Performance Target: 88% of the students achieved a grade of 70 or better. Secondary Performance Target: Of those, 24% effectively discussed both history and literature.
Recommended Actions:  Primary Performance Target was met.  No further action required. Secondary Performance Target was not met.  Two additional historical documents have been added to the paper review section course in order to provide additional examples to the students of contextual material.
Date: Follow-up on Recommended Actions:

Georgia Highlands College Goal Assessment Report Form

Unit/Team:  Humanities	Reported By: F. Minor
Date Submitted: 06-01-06	Assessment Period: 2005-2006
Related College Goal: be innovative in our approach to teaching, learning, and support services
Unit/Team Goal:  Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and understand significant ideas from a variety of cultures, eras, and genres and to express those ideas clearly in writing.
Expected Outcome:   Students in language courses will demonstrate a knowledge of cultural issues, especially those relevant in the humanities.
Outcome Assessment: Students taking Spanish 1001 and Spanish 1002 will complete an extensive study in which they will research life in several Spanish-speaking countries. The students will fill out a chart in which they compare the data. Then they will write an essay on their findings.
Performance Targets:  Primary Performance Target: 80% will achieve a grade of 70 or better. Secondary Performance Target: Of the ones who made 70 or better, 80% show an awareness of the cultural differences among the countries.
Summary of Data Collected (Performance Results): Location:                                      Floyd                C’ville                Overall Primary Performance Target:       98%                 99%                  99% Secondary Performance Target:  100%               100%                100%
Recommended Actions: Primary Performance Target met.  No further action required. Secondary Performance Target met.  No further action required.
Date: Follow-up on Recommended Actions: