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ATECH Program Review Report1. College: COADiscipline, Department or Program: AtechDate: October 16, 2016Members of the Comprehensive Instructional Program Review Team: Rick Greenspan, WayneFung, Rufino Ramos, John Taylor (note – two contract faculty, Ed Jaramillo and John Peterson, are onleave this semester and were unable to participate)Members of the Validation Team:2. Narrative Description of the Discipline, Department or Program:Please provide a mission statement or a brief general statement of the primary goals andobjectives of the discipline, department or program. Include any unique characteristics,degrees and certificates the program or department currently offers, concerns or trendsaffecting the discipline, department or program, and a description of how the discipline, department or programaligns with the college mission statement.The Automotive Technology curriculum is designed to prepare students for employment asapprentice auto mechanics or to allow students to continue toward a Baccalaureate degree inother advanced schools of technology in preparation for future management and teachingcareers in the automotive industry.The College of Alameda ATECH program is certified by the National Automotive TechniciansEducation Foundation (NATEF), NATEF certification guidelines and procedures are attached(Appendix D1 and D2) The program also works with the Apprentice program to meet theirtraining needs, as well as with the Calif Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) in supplyingrequired update programs for certified California Smog Mechanics and including in the regularcurriculum the material required for Calif State Smog Licenses (as well as Calif State Lampand Brake licenses)3. Curriculum:Please answer the following questions and/or insert your most recent curriculum review report (within the past 3years) here.1

Attach the Curriculum Review Report or Answer these Questions: Have all of your course outlines of record been updated or deactivated in the past three years? If not, listthe courses that still need updating and specify when your department will update each one, within thenext three years.Curriculum is reviewed every five years by an outside certification team as part of the Mater LevelProgram Certification by the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF). SeeAPPENDIX D2 for documentation on how NATEF works. Course outlines have been updatedwhenever required by Curriculum Committee and Ed Code. SEE APPENDIX E.NATEF certification occurs every 5 years, with mid-cycle review every two and a half years.During the NATEF certification, outside reviewers look not only at course outlines, but review lab sheets,lecture plans, lecture presentations, day-by-day plans, and student learning in laboratory situations.They also interview students and call local employers regarding the proficiency of students and formerstudents as automotive technicians. What are the discipline, department or program of study plans for curriculum improvement (i.e., coursesor programs to be developed, enhanced, or deactivated)?Prerequisites, co-requisites, and advisories been validated, mainly based upon issues of safety for ourstudents.Curriculum is constantly being reviewed and improved, primarily to keep up with ever-changingindustry and NATEF standards. Instructors attend curriculum development workshops and trainingregularly, as well as attending California Auto Teachers conferences annually. We are currently workingwith a statewide Industry Driven Regional Collaboratives (IDRC) grant to update/improve alternativefuels curriculum. We also teach a 16 hour fee-based Update classes to smog technicians, which must becreated every two years. Please list your degrees and/or certificates. Can any of these degrees and/or certificates be completedthrough Distance Education (50% or more of the course online)? Which degree or certificate?Degrees/Certificates along with latest update information from Curricunet are listed in Appendix E(none can be completed 50% or more online)4. Assessment:Please answer the following questions and attach the TaskStream “At a Glance” report for your discipline,department, or program for the past three years. Please review the “At a Glance” reports and answer thefollowing questions.“At a glance” printout is Appendix GQuestions:2

How does your discipline, department or program ensure that students are aware of the learningoutcomes of the courses and instructional programs in which they are enrolled? Where are yourdiscipline, department or program course and program SLOs published? (For example: syllabi, catalog,department website, etc. If they are on a website, please include a live link to the page where they canbe found)Included in Syllabi Briefly describe at least three of the most significant changes/improvements your discipline,department or program made in the past three years as a response to course and program assessmentresults. Please state the course number or program name and assessment cycle (year) for each exampleand attach the data from the “Status Report” section of TaskStream for these findings.This is a totally ridiculous question. We assess ALL classes EVERY academic year in May, andwe improve ALL classes every year. We need to keep up with Calif State Bureau of Auto Repairstandards, NATEF standards, and general industry standards (as noted in our advisorycommittee minutes) for EVERY CLASS, EVERY SEMESTER, EVERY YEAR.We’ve attached Appendix H, to show three random “snapshots” from Taskstream, to show thatwe update all our classes every year in numerous ways. Briefly describe three of the most significant examples of your discipline, department or program plansfor course and /or program level improvement for the next three years as result of what you learnedduring the assessment process. Please state the course number or program name and attach the datafrom the “Assessment Findings and Action Plan” section for each example.Another ridiculous question. It’s impossible to know what we will need to do in the next threeyears.We are CONSTANTLY reviewing our curriculum and our courses, and our Taskstream SLOreport is but a tiny part of that process.What we can say as of today is that*We’ve needed to overhaul our lab curriculum to eliminate the need for late model Toyotavehicles, after Toyota took those vehicles back when they terminated their contract with PCCD.*We are currently working on our mid-cycle compliance report to NATEF, reviewing ourcurriculum with our Advisory Committee.*We are starting a new fee based Smog update class in Digital Storage Oscilloscopes, which will beintegrated into our regular curriculum during the coming years*We are working with Calif Automobile Assn, the Peralta Foundation, Elnora Webb, and manyother sources to try to get donations of late model vehicles. If we get those vehicles, our labcurriculum will need to be updated to do work on those vehicles. We are working with MarieHampton in purchasing to see how we could purchase used vehicles using requisition process*We are working with the IDRC grant and will be teaching a 3-unit class (paid for by the grant)on alternative fuel vehicles in the spring. This information will then be incorporated into ourcurriculum, although at present, we don’t have ANY hybrid, electric or fuel cell vehicles on whichto train those students.3

Describe how assessment results for Distance Education courses and/or programs compare to the resultsfor the corresponding face-to-face classes.We don’t teach distance ed classes Describe assessment results for courses with multiple sections. Are there similar results in each section?We have very few multi-section classes. The few that we do have get similar results. Describe your discipline, department or program participation in assessment of institutional leveloutcomes (ILOs).We find this kind of exercise not at all helpful to the success of our students. So we spend as littletime on it as possible.Plus, the only way to evaluate institutional and program level outcomes is to contact students whohave completed a certificate or degree. However, since it is illegal for Student Services to even tellus which students have applied for certificates or degrees until AFTER they have graduated andleft COA, we have had great difficulty assessing program level outcomes with those students.If the administration wishes to evaluate institutional outcomes for COA students who completedegrees and certificates, they are free to contact graduates from our programs and assess them asthey wish. How are your course and/or program level outcomes aligned with the institutional level outcomes?Please describe and attach the “Goal Alignment Summary” from TaskStream.See Appendix I5. Instruction: Describe effective and innovative strategies used by faculty to involve students in the learning process.*Quality lectures*up-to-date labs, with vehicles which reflect the current vehicles on the market*all classrooms have projectors and internet connections*up-to-date equipment, reflecting state of the art used in the trade*regular advisory committee meetings*keeping up with the latest industry standards, as per NATEF and our advisory committee How has new technology been used by the discipline, department or program to improve studentlearning?4

*Professional Development so that faculty can get trained on the latest systems, tools anddiagnostic processes in the field.*purchase and use of state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment in lab settings*purchase and utilize “state-of-the-art” vehicles for trainingNOTE: All these requires substantial commitment to CTE funding by California, Peralta andCOA How does the discipline, department, or program maintain the integrity and consistency of academicstandards with all methods of delivery, including face-to-face, hybrid, and Distance Education courses?*we constantly meet informally to review our classes, our labs, and our standards*we go over one eighth of our curriculum each time we meet with advisory committee (whichmeans we review the entire curriculum every 4 year cycle, since we have 8 areas in which we mustbe certified under NATEF certification)*we undergo rigorous NATEF review of our entire program, including academic standards, everyfive years to maintain “master” program status. This must be done by trained evaluators whohave nothing to do with our program and have been trained by NATEF. How do you ensure that Distance Education classes have the same level of rigor as the correspondingface-to-face classes?no distance ed classes are taught Briefly discuss the enrollment trends of your discipline, department or program. Include the following:o Overall enrollment trends in the past three years5