Community Colleges - Learning and Program Outcomes Assessment
Using the ACM-IEEE and ACM-AIS Model Curricula for Computer Science, Information Systems and Information Technology, the ICCP standards councils and representatives from many colleges will be creating the national examinations for continuous quality assessment based on learning outcomes assessment. Scenario based test questions focus on skills required by companies as well as the learning objectives set by the curriculum committees. Professional certification is optionally available to students on passing these examinations. The information is completely confidential to each college, a national score average for each learning outcome is available for each college to compare their students' performances against these national scores.
A nationally standardized exam gives outcomes (in the form of 4 reports) to evaluate your students, curriculum, and effectiveness of your programs. It provides for program improvement through longitudianal affirmation of learning outcomes, year over year. Your reports are available for life regardless of changing faculty and program leadership.
Using the ACM-IEEE and ACM-AIS Model Curricula for Computer Science, Information Systems and Information Technology, the ICCP standards councils and representatives from many colleges will be creating the national examinations for continuous quality assessment based on learning outcomes assessment. Scenario based test questions focus on skills required by companies as well as the learning objectives set by the curriculum committees. Professional certification is optionally available to students on passing these examinations. The information is completely confidential to each college, a national score average for each learning outcome is available for each college to compare their students' performances against these national scores.
A nationally standardized exam gives outcomes (in the form of 4 reports) to evaluate your students, curriculum, and effectiveness of your programs. It provides for program improvement through longitudianal affirmation of learning outcomes, year over year. Your reports are available for life regardless of changing faculty and program leadership.
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A little about ourselves
The committees meet via web-conferencing and once/year in person. They discuss the content, the changing curriculum requirements especially test item performance. All universities participating in the program are able to provide input and changes to the tests. Different versions of the test are available as institutions model their curriculum based on the changing curriculum standards. Core elements of the examination remain stable, and customized elements allow you to test for regional variations. |
The Community College Model Curriculum Examination Committee:
New members are being recruited to join this committee from the community college programs. The League of Innovations will provide some initial assistance in identifying interested colleges. $50,000 of in-kind program assistance has been provided for ICCP for the first 20 colleges who sign up for the Beta program. Obligations of colleges joining the program: 1. The college must identify one faculty member to aid in establishing the subject outline standards for the Learning outcomes assessment examination. 2. That college may then use the examination to be part of the benchmark study 3. The faculty member may present a short report on the value of the nationally-normed scores and use to maintain regional college program quality |
Computer Science Model Curriculum Steering Committee
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ICCP's 60 minute live webinar on Model Curriculum and Examinations
Computing Science Model Curriculum exam - discuss with other college professors their experience with the exam and uses at their university and evaluate if this meets your accreditation requirements or curriculum improvement committee's needs.