CRITERION THREE: STUDENT LEARNING AND EFFECTIVE TEACHING
– The organization provides evidence of student learning and teaching effectiveness that demonstrates it is fulfilling its educational mission.
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Criterion Three.doc
Answer the questions for each of the core components by clicking on the core component and typing in or pasting your answers on that page.
The organization’s goals for student learning outcomes are clearly stated for each educational program and make effective assessment possible.
3.1. WETCC clearly differentiates its learning goals for undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate programs by identifying the expected learning outcomes of each.
3.2. Assessment of student learning provides evidence at multiple levels: course, program and institutional.
3.3. Assessment of student learning includes multiple direct and indirect measures of student learning.
3.4. Results obtained through assessment of student learning are available to appropriate constituencies, including students themselves.
3.5. WETCC integrates into its assessment of student learning the data reported for purposes of external accountability (e.g. graduation rates, passage rates on licensing exams, placement rates, transfer rates).
3.6. WETCC’s assessment of student learning extends to all educational offerings, including credit and noncredit certificate programs.
3.7. Faculty are involved in defining expected student learning outcomes and creating the strategies to determine whether those outcomes are achieved.
3.8. Faculty and administration routinely review the effectiveness and uses of the organization’s program to assess student learning.
The organization values and supports effective teaching.
3.9. Qualified faculty determine curricular content and strategies for instruction.
3.10. WETCC supports professional development designed to facilitate teaching suited to varied learning environments.
3.11 WETCC evaluates teaching and recognizes effective teaching.
3.12 WETCC provides services to support improved pedagogies.
3.13 WETCC demonstrates openness to innovative practices that enhance learning. WETCC demonstrates openness to innovative practices that enhance learning.
3.14 WETCC supports faculty in keeping abreast of the research on teaching and learning, and of technological advances that can positively affect student learning and the delivery of instruction.
3.15 Faculty members actively participate in professional organizations relevant to the discipline they teach.
The organization creates effective learning environments.
3.16 Assessment results inform improvements in curriculum, pedagogy, instructional resources, and student services.
3.17 WETCC provides an environment that supports all learners and respects the diversity they bring.
3.18 Advising systems focus on student learning, including the mastery of skills required for academic success.
3.19 Student development programs support learning throughout the student’s experience regardless of the location of the student.
3.20 WETCC employs, when appropriate, new technologies that enhance effective learning environment for students.
3.21 WETCC’s systems of quality assurance include regular review of whether its educational strategies, activities, processes, and technologies enhance student learning.
The organization’s learning resources support student learning and effective teaching.
3.22 WETCC ensures access to the resources (e.g., research laboratories, libraries, performance spaces, clinical practice sites) necessary to support learning and teaching.
3.23 WETCC evaluates the use of its learning resources to enhance student learning and effective teaching.
3.24 WETCC regular assesses the effectiveness of its learning resources to support learning and teaching.
3.25 WETCC supports students, staff, and faculty in using technology effectively.
3.26 WETCC provides effective staffing and support for its learning resources.
3.27 WETCC systems and structures enable partnerships and innovations that enhance student learning and strengthen teaching effectiveness.
3.28 Budgeting priorities reflect that improvement in teaching and learning is a core value of the organization.
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