Mission
The Institutional Assessment Office organizes Hawai'i Community College assessment to sustain continuous improvement for instructional activities and support services.
Outcomes
provides training and support to develop, align, and assess institutional, unit, program and course outcomes.
maintains and publishes assessment documentation and reports.
collaborates with administrators, divisions/departments/units leadership and faculty/staff to provide assessment activities that foster continuous improvement.
What is Assessment at Hawaiʻi Community College?
Assessment is the process of gathering information/data on student learning and services for the purposes of evaluating and improving the learning environment.
Learning Outcome Approach
Hawaiʻi Community College engages in systematic assessment of learning
outcomes to ensure continuous improvement and create increased
opportunities for student success.
The learning outcome approach makes student learning more meaningful
and effective. Students are able to identify relevance and value in
their education.
The approach increases student success by building educational
experiences based on what students will be able to do with their
acquired knowledge and skills. These diverse and rich educational
experiences correlate directly to the desired learning outcomes.
Our Process
Develop student learning outcomes.
Design course to achieve student learning outcomes.
Create methods to assess student learning outcomes.
Engage in the teaching-learning process.
Assess whether or not student learning outcomes are
achieved.
Participate in discussions on ways to improve instruction and
student success.
Make changes to achieve learning outcomes and for continuous
program improvement
Assessment plans and rubrics are due annually by December 1, with the assessment report due the following June 1. Assessment plans, rubrics, and reports are posted on the college intranet website.
Assessment Effectiveness
Programs
College programs:27
Programs with Student Learning Outcomes: 27
Percentage of total: 100%
Programs with ongoing learning outcome assessment: 27
Percentage of total: 100%
Institutional Learning Outcomes
Institutional Learning Outcomes: 3
ILOs with ongoing assessment: 3*
* New institutional learning outcomes were adopted Fall
2012. Assessment implementation is in progress.
(This links to HAWCC Intranet - the page opens in new browser window & requires UH login)
News & Updates:
E Imi Pono Day - September 21, 2012
Assessment Fair 2011 video posted on YouTube
...institutional assessment efforts should
not be concerned about valuing what can be
measured but, instead, about measuring that
which is valued.
-- Banta, T. W., Lund, J. P., Black, K. E., &
Oblander, F. W., Assessment in practice:
Putting principles to work on college campuses.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.p. 5, 1996
