Assessment Results

Fall 2012

SLO # 2 Student will produce sentences and chunks of discourse in speech of 200-250 words on assigned topics and/or topics of the student’s own choosing.

There were two sections of ESL 182 LS in the Fall of 2012. Each instructor evaluated SLO #2 at the end of the semester by having students record responses to several questions related to an audio text. The students recorded their responses using Voicethread. There were two identical Voicethreads, one for each section. The links to these completed Voicethreads, a Google Docs Teacher’s Score Sheet, a scoring rubric, and instructions on how to use the rubric to score the student responses were sent out to all the ESL Listening/ Speaking instructors, five of whom were adjunct instructors. Each L/S instructor listened to the Voicethreads and scored them on their own time by a given due date. The scores were totaled to determine a pass or not pass score for each student. There were 39 students who participated. 33 out of the 39 received a passing score for a total pass rate of 84%.

Links to the Voicethreads
https://voicethread.com/share/3725696/

https://voicethread.com/share/3733678/

ESL Instructors Score Sheet and Rubric

Impact on Course

The high pass rate for each section indicates that this SLO is easily being met for the majority of the ESL 182 LS students. It appears that this SLO and course instructional methods are appropriate for this level of ESL students. No modifications seem necessary at this time.

Spring 2012

 

SLO # 3

Twenty-nine students completed the objective style test. Out of the twenty-nine students twenty-five successfully passed the test with a minimum score of it least 70%. Out of the four students who failed the test, two received scores in the 60% range and two received scores 50% or lower.

SLO # 2

Twenty-nine students recorded their comments on the assessment VoiceThread. Out of the twenty-nine students who recorded their comments twenty-five students were rated as passing based on the rubric (see rubric posted) designed for ESL 182 LS through the collaborative efforts of the listening and speaking instructors. Two were rated as just below passing, and two others were rated as failing or not meeting the minimum proficiency.

182LS Oral Presentation Level Outcomes Rubric (draft)

	Exceptional	Good	Passing
topic and content	appropriate topic; covers key points and some detailed information	appropriate topic;  covers key points & additional information, which may not be appropriate	appropriate topic; basic but sufficient details
organization of information	cohesive throughout, but some missing/ misused cohesive elements	insufficient use of cohesive elements and/or frequently misused/ repeated cohesive elements	minimal use of cohesive elements may have some repetition and/or misuse of cohesive elements
vocabulary	some variety in use of basic and content vocabulary; word form and choice errors do not affect comprehension	variety in  use of basic and content vocabulary with some word form and word choice errors	repetitive use of basic and content vocabulary with some word form but few word choice errors due to simplicity of topics
grammar	grammatical errors in simple and complex structures rarely  impede comprehension	few grammatical errors in simple structures; errors in complex structures sometimes impede comprehension	grammatical errors occur throughout  in complex structures; fewer in simple structures; occasionally impede comprehension
comprehen-sibility (speed, tone, stress, pronuncia-tion)	comprehensible throughout with occasional errors of stress and pronunciation; appropriate tone and speed	comprehensible throughout but too slow and/or too quiet and/or repetitive errors in stress and pronunciation of key words; appropriate tone	comprehensible throughout; may be too slow/fast, too quiet, and may have a few errors in stress and pronunciation of basic words