Why have Institutional Learning Outcomes?
Institutional Learning Outcomes can be used to improve student learning and instructional approaches through an examination and discussion of assessments of broad learning outcomes shared by multiple departments and divisions. They are also required for accreditation purposes. (ACCJC Standard I.B.1[i], I.B.2[ii] and II.A.11[iii])
How have we arrived at our ISLOs?
Beginning in 2008, faculty and administrators collaborated to develop Institutional Learning Outcomes based on GE, Basic Skills, and CTE requirements culminating in the 2010 Opening Day activity where 14 ISLOs were created.
The College of the Canyons Academic Senate adopted the current 9 Institutional Student Learning Outcomes on May 2016.
Historical Data
2008-2013 ISLO work
Institutional Student Learning Outcomes
Critical Thinking ISLO rubricOral communication is a prepared, purposeful presentation designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
Written communication is the development and expression ofideas in writing. Written communication involves learning to work in many genres and styles. It can involve workingwith many different writing technologies, andmixing texts, data, and images. Written communication abilities develop through iterative experiences across the curriculum.
Teamwork is behaviors under the control of individual team members (effort they put into team tasks, their manner of interacting with others on team, and the quantity and quality of contributions they make to team discussions.)
Creative thinking is both the capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experienceof thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginativeway characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand. - The National Forum on Information Literacy
Quantitative Literacy is a "habit of mind," competency, and comfort in working with numerical data.
Civic engagement is "working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge,skills, values, andmotivation to make that difference.It means promoting the qualityof life in communities,throughbothpolitical andnon-politicalprocesses."
(Excerpted from Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, edited by Thomas Ehrlich,published by Oryx Press, 2000, Preface, pagevi.)
Global learning is a critical analysis of and an engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies (such as natural, physical, social, cultural, economic, and political) and their implications for p eople’s livesand the earth’s sustainability.