Departmental GE Assessment Plan: Fall 2005
Department:
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Name of Department Chair:
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Chair's signature:
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Date: _____________
Departments with courses in any of the six areas listed below must submit
this form to the GE Board by Monday, November 28th. This plan is due then, even if actual
assessments will be performed much later.
(Send materials to: David Hobby,
Chair, GE Board, FOB E3.)
Attach Course GE Assessment Plans for all of the course/area
combinations you list in (2).
Provide at least one sample rubric (or equivalent) per area. The remaining rubrics are due two weeks
before the start of the semester in which the course/area is liable to be
assessed.
The GE Board will review plans to be sure they are acceptable to the
GEAR group, and then forward them to Laurel Garrick Duhaney, Associate Provost.
1. Describe the
mechanism your department will use to review the results of its GE assessments
with the aim of improving the courses assessed
("closing the loop") :
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Codes for areas to be assessed:
USST = our United States Studies category. Assessed Spring, 2006.
WRLD = our Other World Civilizations category. Assessed Spring, 2006.
IL = courses with our Information Literacy competency. Assessed Spring, 2006.
CT = Critical Thinking courses under strengthened campus-based
assessment (SCBA)
= courses with our
Systematic Inquiry competency. Assessed
when their category is.
MATH = SCBA assessment for courses in our MATH category. Assessed Spring, 2007.
COMP = SCBA assessment for courses in our COMP category. Assessed Spring, 2007.
2. On each line, list a course number, course name and the code of an assessment area.
(Attach a Course GE
Assessment Plan for each course/area you list below. If different sections will be assessed
differently, please list them separately.)
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(Attach additional sheets as needed.)