Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Date: March 27, 2015
Department: Chemistry
Division: NAS
SLO Assessment Results List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below. Attach Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters. (Do NOT attach your individual assessment forms.)
Core Competency, Course SLO, or CTE Program SLO Assessed. Example: all
Date of meeting where analysis / dialogue took place.
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment. Example: Develop
Example: Department Meeting 8/27/15
strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of class.
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course SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2
SLO Commentary Use the box below to add any additional information. If you have not completed SLO assessment, state reason.
Chemistry finished our program plan spring of 2014. Fall of 2014 was to be our first SLO evaluation semester on the new revolving wheel for the next cycle. We understood that the SLO tracking was being shifted to Curricunet for spring 2015 and decided to wait on evaluations so that they could be entered directly into Curricunet. The SLO evaluations that are being conducted this semester in CHEM 5 and CHEM 12B/BL are still in progress and not completed. Chemistry has a plan of SLO evaluation in place. The SLO evaluation plan is attached for review.
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Progress on Goals and Recommendations from Most Recent Program Plan List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met.
Goal/Recommendation
Increase Stockroom Technician Position from 80% to 100% 10-month.
Status
Not Met, but One-Time Support Provided. Current support level is one 100% 10-month Laboratory Technician, and one 80% 10-month Laboratory Technician. The current level of offerings require two 100% 10-month Laboratory Technician positions. The level of support requested is supported by guidelines published by the American Chemical Society “ACS Guidelines for Chemistry in TwoYear College Programs.” One-Time support was provided based on goals in most recent Program Plan. One-Time funds have provided additional support beyond the 80% contract, and have been exceptionally helpful
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Funding Source
(select all that apply)
(general fund, grants, one-time, categorical, etc.)
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No Cost One-time cost On-going cost
General Fund- $13,000, on-going.
Expansion and remodel of the Chemistry Stockroom and Student Instrument Room.
Not Met. The Chemistry ☐ Stockroom is still in it’s ☒ original configuration ☐ from when the 600 building was first built. This stockroom is woefully inadequate to provide support to the number of courses now offered in Chemistry. The inadequacies present significant health and safety challenges in chemical preparation, storing, and dealing with waste disposal. The college has invested in new lecture rooms and a new laboratory classroom, but new must invest in the supportive infrastructure.
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No Cost One-time cost On-going cost
General Fund- $400,000, one-time funds.
Continued Support of Current Technology and Future Purchases of New Technology for Student Use.
☐ In-Progress. Chemistry has recently purchased ☒ nine new Vernier ☒ LabQuest personal data acquisition interfaces. These small devices interface with our current line of Vernier Probes (Temperature, pH, pressure, and more) and allow computer assisted experimentation to be conducted by our allied health courses in room 610 (The newly completed multi-use lab room). While the purchase of these acquisition interfaces is progress, Chemistry has many pieces of critical instructional equipment that are beyond their useful life cycle and must be replaced. The CHEM 5 and CHEM 12 curriculums are severely under supported and lack basic analytical instruments generally available for these courses.
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No Cost One-time cost On-going cost
While some instrumentation can be looked at as one-time costs, the shear amount of equipment that must be replaced on in on-going basis amounts to an on-going cost. For example, a fixed magnet Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instrument, core to the CHEM 12AL/BL curriculum and the main deficit cited by the UC and CSU systems in accepting transfer credit, costs $120,000. However, hot plates, probes, balances and other equipment with limited life cycles amount to an on-going cost of ~$16,000/year. Beyond staffing issues, and preparatory space, this is the most critical issue faced by chemistry.
Development of Chemical Stockroom Management Plan and Standard Operating Procedures.
On-going. Transitioned to new chemical inventory system. New accounting procedures implemented. Safety training ongoing. Coordination of curriculum to lower burden on technician preparation achieved.
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No Cost One-time cost On-going cost
Establishment of CHEM 1A Placement Exam.
☐ In-Progress. Chemistry has met with PRO Staff ☐ and discussed the steps ☒ required to introduce a placement exam. Further research is being conducted by PRO and Chemistry.
No Cost One-time cost On-going cost
General Fund- $900, on-going.
New or Unmet Goals and Recommendations
Go to the link below to submit any new or unmet goals and recommendations (resource requests) identified by the department, in priority order:
http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/pro/programPlanning/ResourceRequests.html
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