California State University, Los Angeles College Portrait
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- Student Success & Progress
Discover how many students who start at CSULA finish their bachelor's degree and how long it takes.
- Student Learning Outcomes
Figure out what learning gains to expect in critical thinking, writing, and other important subjects at CSULA.
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Student Learning at California State University, Los Angeles
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.
Information on individual, course, program and institutional level assessments can be located on the CSULA Assessment web page at www.calstatela.edu/academic/aa/assessment/. This page also contains the campus assessment policy, the campus syllabus policy, SLOs by college and program, a list of assessment coordinators, assessment reports, and assessment tools and resources.
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.
- 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 well above what would be expected at an institution testing students of similar academic abilities.
Freshman Score: 970
Senior Score: 1117
CLA score range: 400 to no maximum score.
Average ACT scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 17
Senior Score: 16
Average EEA scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 834
Senior Score: 870
Analytic Writing Task Results for First-time, Full-time Students
The increase in learning on the analytic writing task is well above what would be expected at an institution testing students of similar academic abilities.
Freshman Score: 1049
Senior Score: 1193
CLA score range: 400 to no maximum score.
Average ACT scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 16
Senior Score: 20
Average EEA scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 813
Senior Score: 924