Assessment
In this section:Tallahassee State College offers Bachelor's degrees in various fields. Bachelor's degrees are terminal degrees in specific areas and are for students seeking to join the workforce in a chosen field immediately after graduation.
Each Bachelor's degree trains students in skills necessary to be successful in their field by matching the curriculum to specific Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). The Office of Institutional Effectiveness helps program leaders review each PLO and meet accreditation standards, principles, and guidelines.
The PLOs for each of the Bachelor's degree programs offered at TSC are listed below by program name.
Business Administration B.A.S. (C101)
- PLO 1: Collect and analyze financial and economic data to support organizational decision making, including the planning and use of resources and effective policy making
- PLO 2: Develop leadership expertise by integrating management theories and resource management practices to successfully manage teams and individuals in an organizational unit
- PLO 3: Communicate ethically, influentially, appropriately, and effectively in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences, with varying purposes, and in an assortment of situations/settings
- PLO 4: Contrast the ethical and legal dimensions of an organization and apply ethical standards and social responsibility to organizational decision making
Elementary Education B.S. (C102)
- PLO 1: Demonstrate application of theories and research in human development, pedagogy, diversity, and elementary curriculum content
- PLO 2: Demonstrate the ability to create an inclusive classroom environment and advocate for equity and inclusion for all learners in the classroom community
- PLO 3: Develop knowledge and skills to implement best practices to support the needs of all learners in a diverse society, and to enable all learners to develop a deep understanding of content areas and their connections and to build skills to apply knowledge meaningfully
- PLO 4: Demonstrate skills in effective communication and professional collaboration
- PLO 5: Demonstrate the ability to use technology to enhance effective teaching
- PLO 6: Demonstrate high standards and goal-setting abilities to enable people to achieve high standards
- PLO 7: Use learner data to make data-driven decisions to improve instruction to help all learners reach high standards
- PLO 8: Demonstrate critical reflection on practice and experience, leading to development of professional goals for continuous improvement in effective instruction and lifelong learning
Exceptional Education B.S. (C103)
- PLO 1: Demonstrate application of theories and research in human development, pedagogy, diversity, and elementary curriculum content
- PLO 2: Demonstrate the ability to create an inclusive classroom environment and advocate for equity and inclusion for all learners in the classroom community
- PLO 3: Develop knowledge and skills to implement best practices to support the needs of all learners in a diverse society, and to enable all learners to develop a deep understanding of content areas and their connections and to build skills to apply knowledge meaningfully
- PLO 4: Demonstrate skills in effective communication and professional collaboration
- PLO 5: Demonstrate the ability to use technology to enhance effective teaching
- PLO 6: Demonstrate high standards and goal-setting abilities to enable people to achieve high standards
- PLO 7: Use learner data to make data-driven decisions to improve instruction to help all learners reach high standard
- PLO 8: Demonstrate critical reflection on practice and experience, leading to development of professional goals for continuous improvement in effective instruction and lifelong learning