SAMPLE Departmental GE Assessment Plan: Fall 2005

Department: Mathematics______________________________

Name of Department Chair: David Hobby_________________

Chair's signature: ______________________________________ 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") :

After each round of assessment, all instructors of GE courses in the department will meet. They will review the departmental summaries, and use them in addition to their own observations as a basis for discussion. The focus of this discussion will be on suggesting changes in the structure of the department's courses that might lead to a greater level of success in meeting the objectives. The department chair will then write a summary of these deliberations and proposed changes. The summary will be presented to the department as a whole, and a copy will be forwarded to the GE Board.

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.)

64181 Precalculus for CT

64181 Precalculus for MATH

64182 Graphs and Optimization for CT

64182 Graphs and Optimization for MATH

64183 Intro to Math Modeling for CT

64183 Intro to Math Modeling for MATH

64184 Elements of Geometry for CT

64184 Elements of Geometry for MATH

64240 Math for Elem Teachers 2 for CT

64240 Math for Elem Teachers 2 for MATH

64241 Intro Statistics for CT

64241 Intro Statistics for MATH