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General Education Assessment Plan FY10

General Education Program Learning Outcomes: Each general education class will assess one of the following lifelong skills: 

  1. Communication: students will develop effective written and/or verbal communication skills necessary for lifelong learning.
  2. Critical Thinking: students will develop critical thinking skills necessary for lifelong learning. Students must be able to solve problems involving several steps of analysis and judgment. 

 

Area:  Computer Applications

Responsibility:  Trena Lackey

Timelines: Yellow - September 25; Green - May 31

Measure:

CS105: Students will demonstrate mastery of critical thinking skills by averaging 2 or higher on two course projects: 

  1. Creating a spreadsheet and charts to analyze, investigate and/or interpret numerical financial data to support the problem-solving process.
  2. Design, create and maintain a database

Please explain how you plan on measuring learning.

Student scores will be averaged for the above two assignments, 3 = excellent; 2 = acceptable; 1 = unacceptable. Each assignment will have an average score.

What were the end of year results?

 

 

 

What changes need to be made in teaching or the curriculum?

 

 

 

 

Area:  English

Responsibility:  Trena Lackey

Timelines: Yellow - September 25; Green - May 31

Measure:

ENG 100: 80% of students will average 2.0 or higher on the technical communication writing assignment.  

Please explain how you plan on measuring learning.

An assignment will be designed to evaluate a student’s written communication skills. The assignment must be appropriate for the workplace, clear, professional, and concise. A rubric will be used for scoring consistency: 3 = excellent; 2 = acceptable; 1 = unacceptable. Student scores will be averaged and analyzed.

 

What were the end of year results?

 

 

 

What changes need to be made in teaching or the curriculum?

 

 

 

 

Area:  Math

Responsibility:  John Black

Timelines: Yellow - September 25; Green - May 31

Measure:

Math students will demonstrate mastery of critical thinking by scoring 70% or higher on the critical thinking questions.

 

Please explain how you plan on measuring learning.

Each class will have a final exam that includes critical thinking questions designed to demonstrate student’s ability to “solve problems involving several steps of analysis and judgment.”

Data will be collected for Math 101 and Math 105 in the fall and Math 150 in the spring.

What were the end of year results?

 

 

 

What changes need to be made in teaching or the curriculum?