Course Objectives and Outcomes
OER General EL115 Course Objectives and Outcomes
| Upon successful course completion, the student will: | This outcome will be assessed by one or more of the following: |
| Develop time management and goal setting strategies |
Written assignment Portfolio project Weekly time management Performance tests |
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Demonstrate a variety of textbook reading strategies
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Portfolio project Class project Performance tests |
| Generate notes in a variety of formats from diverse sources |
Written assignment Portfolio project Class project Performance tests |
| Locate and use basic resources in LCC Library |
Performance tests Portfolio project |
| Apply various memory techniques |
Performance tests Portfolio project Survey |
| Employ exam preparation and exam taking techniques |
Performance tests Portfolio project Survey |
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Monitor progress in strengthening study skills and strategies
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Journal Survey Performance tests |
Specific Critical Thinking/Critical Reading Objectives:
- Students will develop metacognitive awareness in order to identify and solve comprehension problems.
- Students will accurately identify and explain the hierarchy of critical thinking. (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
- Students will demonstrate increased facility, range, and persistence as readers by utilizing such strategies as identifying and annotating for key ideas and supporting information, by building cognitive routines such as asking questions of the text, working in collaborative relationships with peers about the reading process and comprehension, and building their knowledge of reading as a discipline and an integral part of academic, career, and civic success.
- Students will explain how and why critical thinking/reading is necessary in academic and non-academic contexts.
- Students will demonstrate development as a CT and analyze and evaluate problems/strengths of individual critical thinking in general and specifically for college level reading comprehension.
- Students will demonstrate CT in coursework contexts such as reading graphics, complex rubrics, test/essay prompts, and by identifying traditional patterns in reading (cause/effect, comparison/contrast, definition, exemplification, etc.).
- Students will identify CT concepts presented in most textbooks: bias, fact/opinion, propaganda, logical fallacy, deductive/inductive reasoning, inference, connotation/denotation.
Licenses and Attributions
Lane Community College ALS EL115 Course Objectives and Outcomes” by Academic Learning Skills Department is licensed CC-BY-SA.
Specific Critical Thinking/Critical Reading Objectives adapted from OER RD RC DL RD 115 Course Outcomes by Love, Pontious and Pock, CC BY 4.0.
