Outcomes Assessment
EICC’S Commitment to Assessment
Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) is a three-college district composed of Clinton Community College, in Clinton, Iowa; Muscatine Community College, in Muscatine, Iowa; and Scott Community College, in Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa. The mission of EICC is to deliver high-quality education and training that prepares a skilled workforce, provides affordable access to higher education, and builds and strengthens our communities. Assessment of learning outcomes is integral to accomplishing this mission. Assessment provides information answering the following questions about EICC programs, curriculum, and outcomes:
- What should students know after completion of a course?
- What should EICC graduates know, be able to do, and value?
- Have our graduates learned?
- How do we know they have learned?
- What can we do to improve student learning at EICC?
Institutional-Level Assessment
Institutional-level outcomes (ILOs) identify what we expect students to be able to do after successfully completing institutional level coursework at EICC. EICC is committed to teaching and assessing the following goals and outcomes in the General Education Curriculum:
Students will be able to:
- contribute to team meetings.
- facilitate the contributions of team members.
- individually contribute outside of team meetings.
- foster constructive team climate.
- respond to conflict.
Students will be able to:
- evaluate how their own attitudes, beliefs, and values have been formed in order to recognize their own biases and assumptions.
- demonstrate an understanding of how institutional power structures shape experiences, histories, and cultures of dominant and marginalized groups of people.
- analyze arguments from diverse perspectives in order to meaningfully dialogue across cultural differences.
- apply critical and creative approaches to addressing inequalities or conflicts through organizing, activism, advocacy, education, or communication.
Students will be able to:
- frame the problem or issue to be addressed.
- use information to investigate a point of view or conclusion.
- evaluate implications and consequences.
- demonstrate and awareness of biases and limitations of thinking.
Outcomes to be developed in 2024-2025
Program-Level Assessment
Program learning outcomes (PLOs) identify what we expect students to be able to do after successfully completing a program or transfer major at EICC. PLOs are developed for Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and for Arts and Science (A&S) Transfer Majors.
Where to find PLOs
PLOs for each program can be found in the EICC Catalog on each program page below the program description.
Course-Level Assessment
Course-level assessment determines what we expect students to be able to do after successfully completing a program or transfer major at EICC. EICC uses Course Development Models (CDMs) for all courses offered at EICC. A CDM provides critical information about the content of a course of instruction. Course-level student learning outcomes (SLOs) are listed in the CDM for each course. Faculty who are course-level content experts create content for CDMs before entering the EPC approval process. Faculty members are expected to teach and assess the SLOs for the course.
Where to find SLOs
SLOs can for each course can be found in the EICC Catalog in each course description.
Co-curricular Assessment
EICC determines what we expect students to be able to do after successfully participating in cocurricular activities at EICC. At EICC, cocurricular learning is defined as learning activities, programs, and experiences that reinforce the institution’s mission and enhance the formal curriculum with the following expected outcomes (CCLOs) that are from the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) Learning and Development outcomes:
| CAS Outcomes | LEAP (AAC&U) |
|---|---|
| Knowledge acquisition, construction, integration, & application | Knowledge of human culture, the physical world, and natural world |
| Cognitive complexity | Intellectual Skills—Critical Thinking (ILO) Practical Skills—Teamwork (ILO) |
| Intrapersonal development, interpersonal competence, humanitarianism, and civic engagement | Personal and Social Responsibility—Intercultural Knowledge and Competence (ILO) |
| Practical Competence | Integrative and applied learning |
Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education. (2023). 2023 CAS standards & guidelines: CAS learning and development outcomes. CAS Learning Outcomes | Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education
EICC chose the following outcomes to emphasize the CAS outcomes due to the correlation to the LEAP standards that correlate to our Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO’s) and to reflect student development best practices.
Examples of cocurricular activities include student-faculty research experiences, service learning, professional clubs or organizations (e.g., nursing clubs), the Honors Program, honor societies (e.g., Phi Theta Kappa), and career services. Groups of faculty and/or staff affiliated with these experiences, clubs, or organizations will implement and measure CCLOs.
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