{"id":35509,"date":"2024-04-29T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/?page_id=35509"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:44:29","slug":"step-1-how-to-write-slos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-1-how-to-write-slos\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 1: How to Write a Student Learning Outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Student Learning Outcomes (SLO&#8217;s), to include Program Learning Outcomes (PLO&#8217;s) and Course Learning Outcomes (CLO&#8217;s), are the bedrock of the assessment edifice. The assessment structure should be built on a foundation of assessable SLO&#8217;s in order to generate usable and sensible information on student learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty develop PLO&#8217;s during the first step of the assessment cycle and CLO&#8217;s during the second step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page provides an array of resources to help you craft meaningful student learning outcomes for your programs and courses, including the &#8220;Anatomy of an SLO&#8221; image at the bottom of this webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want additional help, please contact the Office of Assessment and Accreditation at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:assessment@ewu.edu\">assessment@ewu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What are Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/06\/Best-Practices-in-Writing-SLOs-06.05.18.pptx\">Best Practices When Writing SLO&#8217;s<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/02\/Exemplary-Program-Learning-Outcomes.pdf\">Exemplary Program Learning Objectives (PLO)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/04\/Blooms-203-Verbs.pdf\">Observable Verbs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/02\/SLO-Checklist-Rubric.pdf\">Student Learning Outcome Checklist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SLO Resource Pages:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Step 1:&nbsp;How to Write an SLO<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 2:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-2-how-to-map-the-curriculum\/\">How to Map the Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 3:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-3-how-to-create-methods-to-assess-slos-olc-copy-2\/\">How to Use SLO\u2019s in Teaching<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 4:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-4-how-to-create-methods-to-assess-slos\/\">How to Create Assignments to Assess an SLO<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>VALUE Rubrics:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/step-4-how-to-create-methods-to-assess-slos-aacu-value-rubrics\/\">Association of American Colleges and Universities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 5:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-5-how-to-assess-slos\/\">How to Assess an SLO<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 6:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-6-how-to-interpret-findings-and-develop-an-improvement-plan\/\">How to Interpret Findings and Develop an SLO Improvement Plan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Step 7:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-7-how-to-implement-your-improvement-plan\/\">How to Implement Your Improvement Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2em\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-button-wrapper gb-button-wrapper-874bf95c\">\n\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-7526f5bc gb-button-text smooth-scroll\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-2-how-to-map-the-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Step 2<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2em\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/02\/SLO-Anatomy-Photo-e1550775883651.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram showing the anatomy of a student learning outcome\" class=\"wp-image-1924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/02\/SLO-Anatomy-Photo-e1550775883651.jpg 800w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/02\/SLO-Anatomy-Photo-e1550775883651-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2019\/02\/SLO-Anatomy-Photo-e1550775883651-768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Learning Outcomes (SLO&#8217;s), to include Program Learning Outcomes (PLO&#8217;s) and Course Learning Outcomes (CLO&#8217;s), are the bedrock of the assessment edifice. The assessment structure should be built on a foundation of assessable SLO&#8217;s in order to generate usable and sensible information on student learning. Faculty develop PLO&#8217;s during the first step of the assessment &#8230; <a title=\"Step 1: How to Write a Student Learning Outcome\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment-accreditation\/assessment\/assessment-resources\/step-1-how-to-write-slos\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Step 1: How to Write a Student Learning Outcome\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3269,"featured_media":0,"parent":35506,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35509","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35509"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37447,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35509\/revisions\/37447"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/assessment-accreditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}