Student Learning Outcomes and
Administrative Unit Outcomes
The Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) assessment process is a means to discover if students, are, in fact, learning what they are expected to learn in courses and programs throughout the college. The accrediting agency for California Community Colleges (ACCJC) has elected to use SLOs as an integral part of its accrediting standards. This is, in large part, a response to the U.S. Department of Education call for colleges and universities to engage in a process of continual self-examination and reflection with the goal of improvement. All student support and administrative service units will also engage in a Administrative Unit Outcome (AUO) assessment process.
Saddleback College assesses SLOs on the course, program, and institutional levels. All outcomes and assessment results are stored in TracDat.
Saddleback College Institutional
Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs)
Students completing a degree or transfer program at Saddleback College will be able to demonstrate:
- Effective Communication
- Reading Competency
- Written Communication
- Oral Communication
- Intellectual and Practical Skills
- Computer Literacy
- Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning
- Information Competency
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Teamwork and Problem Solving
- Skills for Lifelong Learning
- Community/Global Consciousness and Responsibility
- Knowledge of Cultural Diversity
- Interpersonal Skills
- Civic Knowledge and Engagement
- Ethical Reasoning and Action
- Breadth of Subject Area Knowledge
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Arts and Humanities
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
Handbooks
- SLO-AUO Handbook (Under Revision)
- Department Chair's Step-by-Step Guide to SLO Writing and Assessment (Under Revision)
Status Reports and Statistics
Resources and Links
Accredited by the
Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges, of the
Western Association of Schools and Colleges