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Examples of Teaching/Learning Assignments, Projects, Methods

A water analysis project is included in a chemistry course
Students place themselves in a position of being a minority for 45 minutes (they are not permitted to use race) for the “Be in the Minority” assignment in the Racial and Cultural Minorities sociology course.
A cadaver lab is used for human biology and anatomy and physiology courses
In the Comparing Cultures sociology course students are assigned to:

Portray in writing and in a class presentation one aspect of the Unites States from a recent immigrants’ perspective in the group assignment “Nacirema”.
Create a first person journal of their experience as an Ethnographer in a non-westernized, under-developed country, covering key components of the selected country as if they lived among the people for an extended period of time.

Over the past few years, the Arts and Sciences program have added a capstone course, a speech lab, honors courses, an additional college preparatory writing course and have made English I and II prerequisites for most of the concept courses offered in the program.

Evidence of Learning Outcome Achievement

Students writing skills in early writing courses do not meet the faculty established benchmark but are improved when compared to previous year’s scores. As students progress to middle and later courses in the curriculum their writing skills improve and benchmarks are met or exceeded.
The students CAAP writing test mean score of 3.5 compares quite favorably to the national mean of 3.0
Overall the students’ critical thinking skills are slightly below the established benchmark although some students’ rubric scores significantly exceed the faculty established benchmark.
The students CAAP critical thinking test mean score was 63.9 which is above the national mean of 60.9
Students are successfully transferring to four year universities. College efforts have facilitated student’s ability to transfer credits

Clark State has 51 approved courses on the TAG bulletin board
There are 22 colleges and universities and thousands of credit equivalencies on www.transfer.org for courses from other institutions that will transfer to Clark State.
Clark State and Wright State updated 42 transfer guides and five ‘fail safe” or curriculum specific transfer guides were created in 2007-2008 academic year.
The number of graduates from institutions including Bowling Green State university, University of Cincinnati, Central State university, Ohio University and Wright State university who have credits from Clark State increased in 2007-2008
There was a 34% increase in the number of Wittenberg students with Clark State credits during Fall Quarter 2008
Franklin University graduated 16 students with Clark State credit during the 2007-2008 year; a 23% increase from the previous year.

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