Program: Forest Operations

Academic Year: 2008-2009 Completed by: Kurt B. Havird Date: 8/17/09

*Mission:

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Intended Outcomes (Program Outcomes/Goals)	Student Learning Outcomes (Core Skills and Objectives)	Assessment Measures	Performance Criteria/Expected Results	Evaluation & Planned Actions	Use of Results (Close the Loop)
Prepare a timbered stand for harvest by marking harvest boundaries and harvest trees	Be able to correctly locate and mark boundaries for timber removals and correctly identify and mark trees to be removed for timber sales	Ground inspection	Student will correctly determine and mark trees to be removed for a timber sale and mark the associated timber sale boundary within +/- 10% of accuracy	100% of students participating were successful in Summer A 2009	Students are effectively learning timber marking and property boundary marking
Determine and correctly enter GPS data for acreage determination	Be able to properly collect and input field data into a GPS unit for acreage determination	Electronic acreage determination	Student will correctly navigate, and input GPS data into a collection device for a timbered stand to determine acreage estimation and be within +/- 5% of the actual acreage	100% of students participating were successful in Summer A 2009	Students are effectively learning how to input data into a GPS unit for the purpose of forest measurement
Correctly determine and enter data for forest inventory volume and value determination	Be able to correctly determine in the field information to be entered into a hand-held data recorder to be used for volume and value determination	Electronic volume and value determination	Student will correctly enter field measurements into a hand-held data recorder to be used for volume and value determination and be within +/- 5% of the actual volume and value	100% of students participating were successful in Summer A 2009	Students are effectively learning how to determine wood volume and value from a forest stand

LCCC Term	Definition	Other Terms for Same Concept
Assessment	The systematic collection , review and analysis of data to be used to evaluate achievement	Analysis, Evaluation, Measurement
Mission Statement	Statements that define the primary function of the program, why you do it and who you do it for.	*Major Concept Purpose, Goal, Objective
*Intended Outcomes	Broad statements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that the program is preparing graduates to achieve.	Goals, Objectives, Program Outcomes, Educational Objectives
Student Learning Outcomes	Statements that describe the knowledge, skills and abilities students are expected to know and be able to demonstrate by graduation.	*Core Skills and Objectives, Performance Standards, Objectives, Competencies
Assessment Measures	Specific, measurable, statements identifying the ongoing activities that will produce the data or documentation to be evaluated	Assessment Methods, Performance Standards, Criteria
Performance Criteria	Statements that describe the level of achievement that indicates mastery of the student learning outcomes.	Standards, Benchmarks, Success Expected Results, measures
Results	The end result of the data or documentation collected from the assessment measures.	Evaluations, Outcomes, Findings
Evaluation	Process of reviewing the results of data collection and analysis and determining the actions to be taken	Analysis, Assessment
Use of Results	The process of implementing planned actions from evaluation of assessment data to make improvements	Closing the Loop

*Terms for same concepts on Frameworks