AALHE 2017 Annual Conference

This presentation will detail how a small residential college converted its standard Catalog-based Institutional Student Learning Outcomes curriculum map into an accurate and textured topography of the school's Living Curriculum. Specifically, ten years of enrollment data was loaded onto the map in order to eliminate courses that have seldom or never been taught and to contextualize sparsely and heavily enrolled courses. Courses were assigned designations so that the college can assess whether students are engaging in intellectual skill and personal/social responsibility development at sufficiently advanced levels of rigor. The final product of the weighted curriculum map has been useful to certain units, such as the General Education Task Force. In addition, the process of course designation and map updating has been a valuable faculty engagement opportunity in the ongoing effort to focus the college's assessment efforts on what students do, rather than on what course content is presented. This is a 30-minute session shared in a one-hour slot. Two presentations will be given during this time period.