Q: How often are courses assessed?
A: Each category of General Education is assessed on a rotating basis and are scheduled every 3rd semester.
Q: Where can I find the assessment rubrics?
A: Rubric PDFs can be found on the General Education Website in the Faculty Information section. There’s a link to a PDF of the rubric for each area of the curriculum. Alternatively, if you’d prefer to use MS Word, here are Word files for the areas that are being assessed for Fall 2021:
Rubric Files in MS Word (.docx) Format
- Common Core: Art, Aesthetics & Creativity
- Common Core: Human Behaviors & Social Institutions
- Common Core: Literary & Intellectual Traditions
- Common Core: Natural World
- Fundamental Literacies: Writing
- Extended Literacies: Financial Literacy
Q: Do I have to/can I use one assignment to assess all the learning outcomes?
A: Faculty have the choice on which assignment(s) to use to measure each Student Learning Outcome (SLO). Some faculty have one signature assignment that is designed to meet and measure all SLOs, whereas others have multiple assignments.
Q: How do I record or report the results?
A: Faculty should record their assessment data directly on the rubric as indicated in the example below (this particular rubric is for the Natural World, but the same method can be used for the appropriate rubrics for all gen-ed courses):
The rubrics are available as PDFs or Word files, and you may use whatever software you’d like to enter your data. Alternatively, you may scan in hand-written notes on a hard copy of the rubric file.
NOTES:
- Student names should not be included: just the numbers in each category
- Assess each student’s work for each category on the rubric and tally them as 0 (does not meet), 1 (introductory level), 2 (practicing), or 3 (mastery)
- Do not include any students who have withdrawn or have an FN in the course
- Students who have finished the course should be included in the assessment even if they did not pass
- Include the Class Number for your course and total number of students assessed. If for some reason a student did not complete an assignment and was not assessed, please indicate that by way of a note on that particular SLO that was not assessed (the n will be adjusted for calculating the assessment average).