What was assessed?  Student learning 
  outcomes list:
  • Complete list of departmental SLOs with asterisks to 
   indicate those assessed and reported on today. Add extra 
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  • * Defend discipline-specific expertise in one or more 
   specialized areas under women and gender studies (2013) .
  • Assessed in: 
    –WMS 421 -- Senior Seminar in Women an Gender Studies
    –WMS 420 --  Practicum in Women and Gender Studies 
    WMS Assessment SLO Timeline/Cycle
   2013-14 
   • Describe how patriarchy has operated historically. 
   • Identify ways systems of sex and gender oppressions function in society. 
   2014-15 
   • Analyze constructs of sex and gender roles as they intersect other social categories 
    across cultures. 
   • Evaluate conceptual and methodological knowledge of  women and gender studies 
    scholarship in  research. 
   2015-16
   • Apply knowledge of women and gender studies in activism and real-world practice. 
   • Integrate lived experiences into contemporary issues concerning women and 
    gender. 
        How was the assessment accomplished?
        Student Work Assessed in WMS 421                             Student Work Assessed in WMS 420
        • Final senior project where students select, research,      • Internship Portfolio which includes a 
           and write on a women and gender focused topic 
           enacted into a meaningful capstone project which              journal recording the hours worked, the 
           captures contemporary and emerging                            projects to which the student made a 
           undergraduate feminist scholarship, action, and               contribution, and the organizational 
           production.   The capstone project is submitted for           activities in which the student 
           publication in Dissenting  Voices, a WMS 421 
           Ejournal                                                      participated.   
        • Students’ Dissenting Voices submissions underwent          • In addition to the journal, the portfolio 
           a series in-class student-to- student peer review and 
           two external to the class reviews by a Brockport              includes a final written project which 
           faculty editorial review board where faculty                  analyzes the internship site and 
           reviewers provided feedback with an eye toward                activities  within a women and gender 
           publication.                                                  studies theoretical and organizational 
        • Accepted students’ capstone projects  were                     framework.  
           published in Dissenting Voices, Volume 2, as                
           collaboratively designed and  authored  by WMS 
           421 class members
                 Population Assessed 
     WMS 421                        WMS 420
     • Total number of students     • Total number of students 
       assessed in the course – all   assessed in the course – all 
       sections (n): 6                sections (n):9
     • Measurement strategy:        • Measurement strategy: 
        – Dissenting Voices Ejournal   – Internship Portfolio 
          Evaluation Rubric              Evaluation Rubric 
                Actual Assessment Data WMS 421
       Journal submission was graded by a rubric.  
       BENCHMARK SCALE RESULTS
       • 90-100% (A-A-) =exceed     Percent exceeding: 66%
       • 80-89% (B+- B-) =meet   Percent meeting: 17%
       • 70-79% (C+- C-) =approach Percent approaching: 0 
       • Under 70% C- or below) =does not meet Percent not meeting: 17%
       • Benchmark:  80% of students will meet or exceed the SLO, earning a grade of B or higher 
         on the journal submission/analysis.
       • 83% of students met or exceeded the benchmark.