Does general education represent a canon of knowledge, a set of skills, readiness for a student’s major, or simply a certain number of credits? These questions, along with increasing employer demands and student expectations for developing necessary competencies make it imperative to carefully assess your institution’s general education program. However, general education is difficult to assess because students’ core competencies can be obtained through various pathways.
Join your colleagues in this webcast to discuss various methods for assessing the goals and quality of general education. Our expert instructor will focus on using low cost, low effort, turn-key tools to assess general education. This assessment approach, if done effectively, leads to improved student learning and addresses the skills gap that employers demand.
Who should attend?
If you are a facilitator of student learning outcomes assessment, an institutional researcher, or an institutional effectiveness professional who wants to improve your institution’s general education assessment program, you will benefit from this webcast.
Agenda
Start with learning goals, not with assessment methods
Tying clear goals and objectives to institutional mission
Goals and objectives for preparing students
What skills, knowledge, or values should your students have acquired when they finish?
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Leadership
Teamwork
Creativity
Other
To be assessment friendly, what should your objectives focus on?
Students
Make learning goals visible (serve as indicators)
Describe behaviors or products (doing, making) that can be captured by assignments
