DESCRIPTION

Butte College began a discussion on assessment student learning after faculty 
members from several disciplines attended an RP Group presentation at Shasta 
College. Butte created a committee and has identified learning outcomes in basic 
skills courses as part of the program review process.  In 2003, the Language 
Education and Development department used Appreciative Inquiry in a session 
at an annual conference to begin looking at student learning outcomes and is 
using Appreciative Inquiry for the self-study portion of its program review. The 
deparment adapted interview questions for its program review process from AI 
for Organizational Change: A Workshop Book by Jane Magruder Watkins & 
Bernard Mohr:

BEST EXPERIENCE
Tell me about a time when students in your LEAD reading, writing, or ESL class 
met or exceeded desired learning outcomes. What made this an exciting 
teaching and learning experience? What happened? Describe the experience in 
detail.

VALUES
Talk for a moment about some things you value deeply - specifically the things 
you value about your own success and about student success in LEAD classes. 
Without being humble, what do you value most about yourself - as a person and 
as an instructor? When you are feeling best about teaching, what about the work 
itself do you value? What do you value about the department's successes? What 
is the single most important thing that the department has contributed to your 
life? To the world?

CORE VALUE
What do you value as being at the core of student success in the LEAD 
department? Give some examples of how you experience those values.

THREE WISHES
What three wishes would you make to heighten the vitality and health of LEAD 
department programs and services?

TARGET STUDENTS

• New Students
• At Risk
• Basic Skills Students