Participant Evaluation

The most interesting ideas were:

• To refine difference between writing SLO and GIO

• Difference between objectives and outcomes � teacher focus versus student focus

• Taxonomy

• All

• Information about procedures and objectives

• Discussion of exercises

• Sharing of ideas among faculty members in different departments in the same university

• Having uniformity is important

• All of them.

• How to structure syllabus to show objectives/process/outcomes that are aligned with AUB mission statement.

• The clear distinction between GIO and SLO

• Defining objectives and learning outcomes

• Stressing the importance of GIO and SLO

• Providing literature related to the above

• Focusing on outcome and not process

• Grades are insulting?

• Alignment with mission of AUB

• Very interesting especially SLO and GIO

• General versus specific outcome

• The need for explicitness in defining GIO/SLO

• Listening to other�s comments

• Identifying differences between learning objectives and learning outcomes

• GIO / SLO

• That setting goals, objectives can help define the mission of departments and help in achieving consistency.

• The relation between a given course syllabus and a program mission

• The challenges faculty members perceive in dealing with objectives/outcomes and the resistance expressed by some.

• The distinction between objectives and outcomes

• The need for all at AUB to make explicit and review constantly objectives, outcomes, etc.

• The difference between general objectives and specific learning outcomes.

Which ideas/activities discussed or presented in the seminar will be the most useful to you?

• The second session of the workshop � post break (SLO/GIO)

• All

• Defining and writing learning outcomes

• Stressing objective versus subjective criteria

• Statement of general instructional objectives and checking if they are done right or not

• Clarification of GIO and SLO.

• GIO and SLO

• Specificity of each department

• Constraints one has to deal with

• Specificity in using verbs to distinguish between GIO and SLO

• Exercises were good to better understand GIO and SLO

• All

• All. I have a minor in education in my graduate studies, yet the material presented was of value and motivating

• Specifying the objectives to students from the beginning of the semester

• Separate GIO from SLO which I commonly lump together in my syllabus

• The use of verbs for the writing of course objectives

• How to determine GIO / SLO

• The group activities, especially in light of the multiple disciplines represented

• Specific GIO/SLO

• Exercises to identify general objectives and specific outcomes

• Interaction with other faculties

How could today�s seminar be improved?

• More focus on writing examples of course SLO and GIO

• Should be more focused and more practical.  Separate between liberal arts and sciences

• Maybe the sequence (i.e. the order of the topics presented)

• Give more time to application and �doing� (i.e. writing of different kinds of objectives and outcomes)

• Break it into two longer sessions that would allow for more time for exercises

• Have more than one microphone

• If powerpoint presentation be distributed in advance for adding comments.

• Talk beyond objectives / outcomes to also discuss teaching style to meet objectives

• Clear plan of the seminar and summary of what it includes

• Assess (real time) the seminar�s outcome

• I suggest reversing the order of the workshop: second session first, followed by discussions

• Faculty and departments should be alerted to work before the meeting

• Have more time - perhaps asking faculty to do some reading before to save time for discussing other issues

• Less small group discussion

• More emphasis should be put on identifying challenging program objectives

• Relating discussion of learning outcomes to context of teaching and learning and practice

• More structure on how to interpret

• Some examples

• Have meetings with individual departments and discuss ideas more specifically

• Skip the first completely - Start with the GIO./SLO from the first

• More structure, less brainstorming. It seems that as long as the workshop are done at the general level, we are only hinting at the real problems and not discussion them or trying to solve them

• Start the discussion by linking the mission to program objectives to course objectives to learning outcomes in order to convince the audience of the importance of putting objectives etc.

• More focused

• Better preparation as adequate to audience

• Better transition from program objectives to course objectives

• More structure and less townhall format

• Specific syllabi discussed

Other comments:

• It is probably better be taken for professional schools separate from others

• Too much discussion and little focus

• Limit the time of the brainstorming session at the beginning and keep the discussion focused

• I would like to thank you for the group spirit developed and I think that the seminar was really efficient in clarifying certain ideas.  However, the pace was too fast and exercised should have been allowed more time.

• Very well done.  I guess all objectives were met.  Thank you.

• Measuring the learning of SLO

• Taxonomies were too fast

• Thank you

• Bless you

• Need follow up on department and school levels

• You were both excellent and caring and motivated the audience

• To me this seminar should have been offered long ago.  I am sure it is very beneficial for those who were not exposed to accreditation and had to acquire this knowledge on their own.

• Excellent instructors and useful knowledge

• Should have preparation time before attending

• Ideas were raised, ideas and different comments were given from the floor, but what are the conclusions?

• Skip exercises and all that � just tell what it is and give it

• I would recommend doing structured general presentations first then discussion afterwards and comparison between departments

• Have not really met workshop�s objectives in terms of comparing between departments or identifying challenges

Good work (overall) � need better structure in the future. Thank you.

Thank you