LA HARBOR COLLEGE

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Assessment Report

Course Assessment

Division: Social and Behavioral Sciences Discipline/Program: Anthropology

Course Number and Name: ANTHRO 102 Human Ways of Life

Program Contact Person: Sasha David Phone: _(310) 233-4577

Note: The following SLOs were newly revised during Fall 2013 and Spring 2014, based on a collaborative department effort. The SLOs that were not assessed during Spring 2014 will be assessed during Fall 2014.

Reviewed by: Elena Reigadas, former SLO Assessment Coordinator Date: August 13, 2014

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Institutional Learning Outcomes / Course Intended Outcomes / Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success / Summary of Data Collected / Use of Results
3 / 1. Apply the ethnographic research method and typical themes of anthropological inquiry. / Means: Students will practice taking fieldnotes on the “Inponderabilia of everyday life” found in the classroom.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Spring 2014:
N=251
95% of students scored 70% or higher / Continue technique of delivery and instruction.
1 / 2. Define the term “culture” and explain how it impacts the lives of individuals. / Means: Short essay asking students to define “culture” and describe how their experience has been impacted by their cultural context.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
1 / 3. Compare and contrast the differing subsistence strategies, and/or attitudes towards work, that are found among varying societies. / Means: Short essay asking students to explain differing subsistence strategies and/or attitudes towards work among at least two societies.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
3 / 4. Apply the key concepts and methods of anthropology to appraise how ideals of sex and gender are shaped by cultural context. / Means: Students will practice taking fieldnotes on the cultural construction of gender among students’ classmates in the classroom.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Spring 2014:
N=201
83% scored 70% or higher / Continue technique of delivery and instruction.
1 / 5. Compare, contrast and critically assess the effect of globalization and consumerism on the environment. / Means: Short essay asking students to evaluate the impact of varying subsistence strategies on the surrounding environment.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
2 / 6. Compare and contrast different kinship and lineage systems, and explain how each affects lifeways in various cultures. / Means: Short essay asking students to compare and contrast two societies with different kinship systems, and explain how the variations affect cultural institutions such as marriage, residence and family.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Spring 2014:
N=201
83% scored 70% or higher / Continue technique of delivery and instruction.
2 / 7. Apply the fundamentals of linguistic anthropology to explain how language is an integral part of human culture. / Means: Short essay asking students to identify how language both shapes our perception of the world, and how culture shapes our language.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.

Note: The following SLOs were newly revised during Fall 2013, based on a collaborative department effort.

Date: Spring 2014

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Institutional Learning Outcomes / Course Intended Outcomes / Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success / Summary of Data Collected / Use of Results
3 / 1. Apply the ethnographic research method and typical themes of anthropological inquiry. / Means: Students will practice taking fieldnotes on the “Inponderabilia of everyday life” found in the classroom.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
1 / 2. Define the term “culture” and explain how it impacts the lives of individuals. / Means: Short essay asking students to define “culture” and describe how their experience has been impacted by their cultural context.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
1 / 3. Compare and contrast the differing subsistence strategies, and/or attitudes towards work, that are found among varying societies. / Means: Short essay asking students to explain differing subsistence strategies and/or attitudes towards work among at least two societies.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
3 / 4. Apply the key concepts and methods of anthropology to appraise how ideals of sex and gender are shaped by cultural context. / Means: Students will practice taking fieldnotes on the cultural construction of gender among students’ classmates in the classroom.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
1 / 5. Compare, contrast and critically assess the effect of globalization and consumerism on the environment. / Means: Short essay asking students to evaluate the impact of varying subsistence strategies on the surrounding environment.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
2 / 6. Compare and contrast different kinship and lineage systems, and explain how each affects lifeways in various cultures. / Means: Short essay asking students to compare and contrast two societies with different kinship systems, and explain how the variations affect cultural institutions such as marriage, residence and family.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.
2 / 7. Apply the fundamentals of linguistic anthropology to explain how language is an integral part of human culture. / Means: Short essay asking students to identify how language both shapes our perception of the world, and how culture shapes our language.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better.

Date: January 27, 2014

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Institutional Learning Outcomes / Course Intended Outcomes / Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success / Summary of Data Collected / Use of Results
1 / 1. Demonstrate comprehension of the major concepts and themes of anthropological inquiry. / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2012. N=151 students. 80% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. N=102 students. 69% scored 70% or better. / Continue emphasis on vocabulary building.
2 / 2. Identify the components of culture and develop a cultural frame of reference. / Means: First part - Students were assigned the components of culture and had to provide examples from other cultures than their own. Second part – Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2012. N=148 students. 75% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Spring 2011. N= 45. 73% of students scored 70% or better on exam. / Continue emphasis on components of culture in lecture and readings.
1 / 3. Compare and contrast both the diversity and universals that exist cross-culturally in the various social institutions. / Means: Five multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2013. N=242
75% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Spring 2012. N=103. 77% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. 72% scored 70% or better. / Continue emphasis on common features of all social institutions.
1 / 4. Apply the key concepts and methods of anthropology to appraise and evaluate social perceptions and practices in American culture today / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2009. 72% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Spring 2013. N=160
79% scored 70% or better. / Continue to emphasize concepts. Assist them further through additional discussions.
1 / 5. Compare, contrast and critically assess the disparate impact of globalization on various cultures and people throughout the world. / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2013. N=244
85% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2011 in three sections N= 151 79% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. 71% scored 70% or better. / Continue to assist students in extrapolating textual material to the world situation.

Date: July 1, 2013

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Institutional Learning Outcomes / Course Intended Outcomes / Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success / Summary of Data Collected / Use of Results
1 / 1. Demonstrate comprehension of the major concepts and themes of anthropological inquiry. / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2012. N=151 students. 80% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. N=102 students. 69% scored 70% or better. / Continue emphasis on vocabulary building.
2 / 2. Identify the components of culture and develop a cultural frame of reference. / Means: First part - Students were assigned the components of culture and had to provide examples from other cultures than their own. Second part – Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2012. N=148 students. 75% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Spring 2011. N= 45. 73% of students scored 70% or better on exam. / Continue emphasis on components of culture in lecture and readings.
1 / 3. Compare and contrast both the diversity and universals that exist cross-culturally in the various social institutions. / Means: Five multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Spring 2012. N=103. 77% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. 72% scored 70% or better. / Continue emphasis on common features of all social institutions.
1 / 4. Apply the key concepts and methods of anthropology to appraise and evaluate social perceptions and practices in American culture today / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2009. 72% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Spring 2013. N=160
79% scored 70% or better. / Continue to emphasize concepts. Assist them further through additional discussions.
1 / 5. Compare, contrast and critically assess the disparate impact of globalization on various cultures and people throughout the world. / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2011 in three sections N= 151 79% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. 71% scored 70% or better. / Continue to assist students in extrapolating textual material to the world situation.

Date: December 9, 2012

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Institutional Learning Outcomes / Course Intended Outcomes / Means of Assessment and Criteria for Success / Summary of Data Collected / Use of Results
1 / 1. Demonstrate comprehension of the major concepts and themes of anthropological inquiry. / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2012. N=151 students. 80% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. N=102 students. 69% scored 70% or better. / Continue emphasis on vocabulary building.
2 / 2. Identify the components of culture and develop a cultural frame of reference. / Means: First part - Students were assigned the components of culture and had to provide examples from other cultures than their own. Second part – Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2012. N=148 students. 75% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Spring 2011. N= 45. 73% of students scored 70% or better on exam. / Continue emphasis on components of culture in lecture and readings.
1 / 3. Compare and contrast both the diversity and universals that exist cross-culturally in the various social institutions. / Means: Five multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Spring 2012. N=103. 77% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. 72% scored 70% or better. / Continue emphasis on common features of all social institutions.
1 / 4. Apply the key concepts and methods of anthropology to appraise and evaluate social perceptions and practices in the world around us. / Means: Five multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2009. 72% scored 70% or better. / Continue to emphasize concepts. Assist them further through additional discussions.
1 / 5. Compare, contrast and critically assess the disparate impact of globalization on various cultures and people throughout the world. / Means: Ten multiple choice questions embedded in quizzes and exams.
Criteria for success: 70% of students should score a C or better. / Measured in Fall 2011 in three sections N= 151 79% scored 70% or better.
Measured in Fall 2009. 71% scored 70% or better. / Continue to assist students in extrapolating textual material to the world situation.