SCCC Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Action Plan: Year 2 of 5

SCCC Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Action Plan: Year 2 of 5 Program: Liberal Arts And Sciences: Science Emphasis – Meteorology Option (LAME-AS) Degree or Certificate: A.S. Degree Offered at (check all that apply): Ammerman East Grant Submitted: April 26, 2013

Program-Level Course-Level Assessment Tool or Desired Timeline Responsibility for Use of Results / Action Items and Student Learning Student Learning Activity Performance Data Analysis – Dissemination Outcome(s) Outcome(s) (c) (d) (e) Key Findings (g) (a) (b) (f) PLO#1: MET101, CLOs: b. Find Embedded questions on 80% of majors will MET101 will be Scott Mandia Results will be disseminated to faculty Demonstrate locations using latitude and final exam. achieve a 60% or better assessed in via email and then discussed at a knowledge of longitude coordinates. on the embedded December 2014 follow--‐up college--‐wide meeting to factual material c. Determine and analyze questions. and May 2015. be held early in the semester following essential to their atmospheric temperature, Results and the one in which the data were discipline in science. pressure, density, and wind. statistics will collected. Action d. Describe various cloud and be available by Plans will be determined at that time fog types and their formation May 2015. and changes made that semester. and the associated precipitation types. e. Analyze data on a weather map, including location of air masses and weather fronts. f. Describe the dynamics of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and demonstrate the ability to forecast these phenomena. PLO#2: Apply the Laboratory report. 2/3 of our students will PHY132 will be Anindita Ghosh scientific process, PHY132, CLO B: Use various meet or exceed assessed by Glenda Denicolo including designing laboratory instruments standards on each of the Dec/14 and Thomas Breeden and conducting including topics covered in the May/15. Results experiments and computer--‐based data scoring rubric. and statistics testing hypotheses; acquisition. will be available PHY132, CLO C: Interpret and by May 2015. PLO#4: Prepare Manipulate graphical data written reports in including fits to linear and a standard scientific polynomial functions. format; PHY132, CLO D: Apply critical Thinking skills in analyzing PLO#5: Analyze Practical problems; take and interpret necessary quantitative Data and formulate solutions. scientific data; PHY132, CLO E: Present the results of experiments as coherent Laboratory Report with a 2/3 of our students will All classes except Keith Baessler reports including error standardized Rubric meet or exceed CHE 251 will be Jonathan Brockman analysis. standards on each of the assessed in the Michael England topics covered in the Fall 2014 Candice Foley scoring rubric semester. The Vivek Kumar data collected at Richa Prakash CHE 133 CLO#8: Performing the end of the Sharadha basic laboratory operations Fall 2014 Sambasivan involving: volumetric semester will be Zhong Wang (titrations) and gravimetric analyzed and analysis, calorimetry, visible reported back to spectroscopy, visible faculty in Spring spectrophotometry, boiling 2015. point and density measurements and using molecular modeling materials.

CHE 133 CLO # 6: Understanding some basic concepts of thermochemistry and performing the calculations on calorimetry and enthalpy

CHE 134 CLO #5: Performing basic laboratory operations involving: qualitative inorganic analysis, molecular mass determination, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, spectrophotometry, and use of a pH meter.

CHE 250 CLO #4,5,8: - Designing synthetic strategies for organic molecules using retrosynthetic analysis. -Interpreting infrared spectra -Maintaining a current and well-written laboratory notebook

CHE 251 CLO #3,4: Designing synthetic strategies for organic molecules using retrosynthetic analysis. Interpreting nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectra.

Follow Up/Actions Taken:

MET101 FT and PT faculty at all three campuses were asked to submit a series of m/c questions to Scott Mandia for collation. These questions were then sent back to all faculty with the request that they choose their Top Five for CLO b and Top Ten for CLOs c-f. These choices will be whittled down and edited to a set to be determined later and used on the final exam for Fall 2014. The final number of questions is still being discussed.