California Maritime Academy College Portrait

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Student Learning at California Maritime Academy

All colleges and universities use multiple approaches to measure student learning. Many of these are specific to particular disciplines, many are coordinated with accrediting agencies, and many are based on outcomes after students have graduated.

Student Learning is assessed at the class level, the program level, as well as the institutional level. Student Learning Outcomes have been developed for all degree programs and all classes. The engineering and engineering technology have established both Program Objectives and Program Learning outcomes. These are available at: http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/programs3 and http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/me/assessment/.

More information on program assessment and institution-wide assessment is available at: http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/assessment-and-program-review.

Student Learning competencies for license track programs conform with the international requirement of the Standards for Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) of the International Maritime Organization.

Learning Assessment Examples

Pilot Project to Measure Core Learning Outcomes

Colleges and universities participating in the College Portrait measure the typical improvement in students' abilities to think, reason, and write using one of three tests. This is part of a pilot project to better understand and compare what students learn between their freshman and senior years at different colleges and universities.

2007-08 Results from the Collegiate Learning Assessment

The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) measures critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication using a performance task and an analytic writing task. The scores from the tasks are reported separately below.

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Test Information

Performance Task Results for First-time, Full-time Students

The increase in learning on the performance task is at or near what would be expected at an institution testing students of similar academic abilities.

Freshman Score: 1031
Senior Score: 1124
CLA score range: 400 to no maximum score.

Average EEA scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 1090
Senior Score: 1069

Analytic Writing Task Results for First-time, Full-time Students

The increase in learning on the analytic writing task is at or near what would be expected at an institution testing students of similar academic abilities.

Freshman Score: 1098
Senior Score: 1124
CLA score range: 400 to no maximum score.