learning assistance center

The Learning Assistance Center (LAC) offers academic support, e.g., tutoring and supplemental instruction (SI) study groups, for students in traditionally challenging and targeted gateway courses. Unlike academic degree programs, the LAC, a co-curricular program, cannot utilize direct assessments of student work to determine program effectiveness; therefore, assessment of LAC programming must rely on triangulated data from multiple sources to determine its impact on student learning and success. After five years of data strongly suggesting that the LAC has had a positive impact on students who use our services, the LAC is poised to expand its programming to help a wider variety of students achieve their academic goals.

Assessment: Informing Co-curricular Programming from Past to Present to Future

The Learning Assistance Center (LAC) offers academic support, e.g., tutoring and supplemental instruction (SI) study groups, for students …

Empirical data in relation to students' satisfaction with tutoring sessions were gathered with an open-ended survey from one semester. Themes were extracted to generate representative items. These items now comprise an assessment form with outcomes based on students' expressed needs. This is an example of formative assessment using both qualitative and quantitative data

Empirically Based Assessment

Empirical data in relation to students’ satisfaction with tutoring sessions were gathered with an open-ended survey from one …