Unit
Note: During Fall 2015, the AAA Assessment Team worked on revising and rewriting existing unit learning outcomes based on results from assessment/teaching goal activities completed with all instructors during a AAA Faculty meeting April 2015. Final changes were made by the AAA Leadership team 5/19/16
Learning Objectives
- Students should gain an understanding of the course requirements, topics covered in AAA and classroom expectations.
- Students should be able to set short term goals for their academic performance.
- Students should be able to find information that will help them successfully navigate each course they are registered for this semester.
- Students should be able to identify campus resources for information and academic support.
- Students should gain understanding of the differences between high school, community college and career.
- Students should learn best-practice techniques for creating and managing their study schedule.
- Students should gain an understanding of ways to improve their academic time management skills.
- Students should gain techniques on how to successfully complete large tasks.
- Students should gain an understanding of ways to improve their personal time management skills.
- Students should develop awareness to physical and emotional stress and ways to manage them.
- Students should learn active reading strategies to interact and engage with academic writing.
- Students should learn a variety of strategies for listening effectively during class.
- Students should gain understanding of various strategies to increase effective note taking
- Students should be introduced to the self-exploration process as part of career awareness
- Research a career option to understand how to make an informed decision about their short and long-term educational and professional goals.
- Student should gain an understanding of the different types of motivation and impact.
- Students should gain an understanding of possible strategies to increase intrinsic motivation in their own lives.
- Students will be introduced to the stages of memory and how they relate to learning.
- Students should be introduced to strategies to improve memory and learning material while studying.
- Students should gain an understanding of personal learning styles that improve learning effectiveness
- Students should be introduced to strategies to improve test taking skills.
- Students should gain an understanding of course requirements for their degree.
- Students should become introduced and familiar with student rights and responsibilities, and student code of conduct
- Students should learn about GPA and significance to short and long term educational goal.
- Students should learn the different types of financial aid that is available to students.
- Students should engage in activities to reflect on and celebrate their semester.
- Accurately describe instructor and classroom expectations for student responsibility, behavior, and attitude both in and out of the classroom.
- Set specific, measurable, realistic short-term goals (less than 6 months) for their performance in each class they are registered for this semester.
- Locate critical information such as instructor contact information, grading scale, attendance policies, and extra credit opportunities for each of their classes.
- Identify on-campus or online resources for academic support
- Identify major differences between college and high school in terms of diversity, technology, and responsibility.
- Develop effective personal study habits that minimize distractions, allow for appropriate breaks in study and create a study schedule.
- Analyze current effectiveness of their time management by identifying where and how their time was spent
- Organize large tasks (assignments, test preparation) into smaller manageable parts and create a schedule to complete all assignments on time and in a realistic manner.
- Demonstrate effective time management skills by balancing academic work with other activities such as social life, work, family and co-curricular activities in a personal time management system such as a calendar or planner.
- Identify coping strategies and forms of stressors to decrease stress and anxiety.
- Demonstrate through applying the active reading strategies, comprehension of academic writing.
- Identify at least 2 specific strategies that will improve the ability to listening effectively during class.
- Demonstrate effective lecture note techniques
- Identify and explain (verbal or written) how core values, interests, personality type, and skills impact students’ short and long-term career goals.
- Locate and describe the job tasks, skills, training, working conditions, salary, and job market related to their career path.
- Describe differences between external and internal motivation.
- Demonstrate application of an intrinsic motivation strategy.
- Explain each stages of memory and how it directly relates to their learning.
- Identify learning strategies to use during test preparation.
- Identify multiple learning modalities to understand material.
- Apply test taking strategies effectively on a graded exam.
- Design an academic degree, certificate or transfer plan
- Identify violations of the student code of conduct
- Calculate GPA and understand impact of low grades
- Explain the difference between the types of financial aid, including grants, loans, work study, scholarships. Provide at least 2 examples of personal or academic growth from the semester.