Staff Development Resources

Access links, documents, and training materials related to outcomes assessment, teaching and learning, and measurement and research methods.

SMC Professional Development/Training Materials

• Presentation: Finding the Data (2012) (PowerPoint)

• Presentation: Data Tips for Program Review (2012) (PDF)

• Presentation: Conducting & Designing Survey Research - Questionnaires (2011) (PDF)

• Manual: Cal-Pass SMART Tool Training (2011) (PDF)

• Description of Cal-Pass Variables (2011) (MS Word)

• Presentation: Cal-Pass SMART Tool Training (2011) (PDF)

• Presentation: What is Institutional Research? (2011) (PDF)

• Presentation: Cal-Pass SMART Tool Training (2010) (PDF)

Outcomes Assessment

• Presentation: Building Evaluation Capacity to Support Program Review (PDF)

• CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning—Learning Outcomes and Assessment

• Harvard Graduate School of Education—Using Assessment to Improve Instruction

• North Carolina State University—Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

• SMC Student and Institutional Learning Outcomes (S/ILO) Website

• Student Learning Outcomes in the CSU—Links to Scoring Rubrics

Measurement and Research Methods

• Brief Guide to Developing Surveys (PDF)

Brief Guide to Survey Sampling

• Program Improvement Resource Guide (PDF)