General Education Assessment

The General Education Board involves faculty from across campus to establish and refine student learning outcomes, assure that the Gen Ed curriculum provides opportunities for students to acquire them, assess evidence of learning from courses in the program, and make changes where appropriate.

Upon completion of general education courses, students will have intellectual and practical skills. These skills will be practiced extensively across the general education curriculum and include:

• Written Communication: Develop and express ideas in writing, learning to work in many genres and styles, and with many different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images.
• Quantitative Reasoning: Apply numeric, symbolic and geometric skills to formulate and solve quantitative problems.
• Inquiry & Analysis: Explore issues, objects or works through the collection and analysis of evidence that results in informed conclusions or judgments and break complex topics or issues into parts to gain a better understanding of them.
• Oral communication: Prepare purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
• Critical Thinking: Comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
• Creative Thinking: Combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
• Information Literacy: Know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
• Technical literacy: Use, manage, understand, and assess technology.
• Problem solving: Design, evaluate and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
• Teamwork: Belong to teams where effort, manner of interacting with others, and the quantity and quality of contributions are valued.

General Education Assessment Plan 2021

• Courses for AY23 assessment
• Courses for AY24 assessment
• Courses for AY25 assessment

• Rubrics for Learning Outcome Assessment
  • Written Communication Rubric
  • Quantitative Reasoning Rubric
  • Oral/Presentational Rubric
  • Inquiry & Analysis Rubric
  • Creative Thinking Rubric
  • Critical Thinking Rubric
  • Information Literacy Rubric
  • Technical Literacy Rubric - coming soon

• Annual Outcomes Assessment Reports
  • 2022 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report
  • 2021 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report
  • 2020 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report

• 2018 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report
• 2017 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report
• 2016 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report
• 2015 Gen Ed Program Assessment Report

General Education Board Charge

Members

Board Activities:

The General Education Board is engaging in a number of activities related to assessment, and more are planned for the upcoming Academic year. The following are highlights of past and current activities: