Student Learning Objectives (SLO)

This is a sample team SLO from the South Dakota Education Association focused on first-grade math.

This is a sample SLO from the South Dakota Education Association focused on first-grade math.

This is a sample SLO from the South Dakota Education Association focused on 10th-grade nutrition. 

This webinar from the South Dakota Department of Education provides an introduction to SLOs and the SLO process within South Dakota. The webinar describes the benefits and challenges of SLOs and the four-step SLO process. It highlights how to develop high-quality SLOs and provides additional resources for creating SLOs.

This tool from the South Dakota Education Association assists teachers in developing their SLO attainment. A teacher enters in the total number of students measured in the SLO and the percentage of students whom the teachers wants to see attain the SLO goal. The calculator will then determine the number of students who would have to attain it in order to reach the teacher’s percentage goal. It also breaks down the number of students who would have to attain the SLO for each student growth rating level.

The South Dakota Department of Education has compiled responses to some frequently asked questions regarding SLOs. The questions range from the basics, such as “What is an SLO?” to questions about the assessments used in SLOs.

This is a sample SLO from the Rhode Island Department of Education focused on first-grade literacy.

This is a sample SLO from the Rhode Island Department of Education for a middle school building administrator focused on special education mathematics.

This is a sample SLO from the Rhode Island Department of Education for a middle school building administrator focused on English Language Arts.

This is a sample student outcome objective from the Rhode Island Department of Education for a high school social worker.