Assessment—General Education Assessment

General Education goals are assessed through identified assignments in each General Education course. These assignments align with the LEARN and EXPERIENCE strategic plan pillars:

LEARN Pillar

1. Communicate effectively.
   • Written Communication: Constructs a message that aligns with an audience, context, and purpose using appropriate conventions.
   • Oral Communication: Delivers a message intentionally tailored to an audience, context, and purpose.
   • Creative Expression: Produces a work or performance with intentional design and impact.
2. Think deliberately and originally.
   • Critical Thinking: Applies evidence-based reasoning to analyze or solve problems.
   • Creative Thinking: Explores novel ideas or approaches to generate solutions or insights.
   • Quantitative Reasoning: Uses numerical data to support judgments and conclusions.
   • Scientific Reasoning: Applies a systematic process to evaluate evidence and test hypotheses.
   • Problem Solving: Selects and implements practical strategies to address challenges.
3. Use information and technology.
   • Information Literacy: Integrates verifiable and credible sources with proper attribution.
   • Technological Literacy: Uses appropriate digital tools or platforms to complete academic tasks. (Examples: Word, Excel, graphing calculator, educational websites, library databases, artificial intelligence, etc., as instructed in the assignment.)

EXPERIENCE Pillar

4. Analyze human experiences.
   • Self-Awareness: Demonstrates insight into personal values or experiences and connects them to broader human contexts or perspectives.
   • Cultural Comprehension: Interprets cultural practices or phenomena with awareness of personal and societal perspectives.
   • Ethical Reasoning: Evaluates ethical dimensions of issues or decisions using multiple viewpoints.
   • Global Awareness: Explores historical and contemporary human actions and their global impact.
5. Engage in and reflect on learning experiences.
   • Collaboration: Demonstrates effective teamwork behaviors and contributions with reflection.
   • Experiential Reflection: Reflects on in-class or out-of-class experiences with insight and connection to learning.
6. Explore practices for well-being.
   • Career Exploration: Investigates career options and outlines next steps toward professional goals.
   • Wellness Literacy: Applies principles of well-being (e.g., financial, emotional, physical) to personal decision-making.

Scoring teams comprised of faculty and staff evaluate a representative sample of assignments to assess General Education outcomes . Results drive continuous improvement of the General Education curriculum and faculty development