General Education Assessment

Assessment of student learning is an integral part of the general education curriculum.

Dialogs on General Education

• Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO) and the Value Rubrics to assess them
• Lumina Degree Qualification Profile (DQP)
• ELO vs DQP showing alignment of these two complimentary projects
• Commentaries supporting and questioning the DQP
• An example from Nebraska, and why Indiana University adopted the ELO in toto
• UW-Whitewater adopts the ELO, and Purdue restructures it's general education using the ELO and rubrics

Current Findings

• Annual Assessment Reports
• ETS Results Freshman/Senior Testing
• General Education Committee Reports
• Senior Exit Surveys
• Framework for Achievement - Michigan Merit Curriculum
• Academy Topics

Entering General Assessment Data in Tracdat - a multimedia tutorial (.MP4)

Annual Assessment Reports

• GenEd Assessment Schedule Mar2013
• GenEd Outcome Summary Report 3-25-2013

ETS Testing Results

• ETS Fall 2010 Testing GEC Report
• ETS Fall 2011 Testing GEC Report
• Draft Report ETS Proficiency Profile F09, S10, F10
• Fall 2011 Summary of Proficiency
• ETS 2012 Graphical Summary
• Spring 2011 Summary of Proficiency
• Spring 2012 Summary of Proficiency
• National Comparative Data provided by ETS
• 3-yr comparision: ETS Proficiency Profile

General Education Committee Reports

• Committee Membership 2012-2013
• Committee Report for 2010-2011
• General Education Enrollments F2006-S2011
• General Education Goals and Objectives 2011-2012

Senior Exit Survey on General Education Outcomes

• General Education Outcomes (Survey in .pdf) -
  • Final spring 2012 Senior Exit Survey
  • Preliminary Spring 2012 results
• Spring 2010

Framework for Achievement - Building on the Michigan Merit Curriculum

High School Content Expectations - links to the Michigan Department of Education curriculum resource pages

• English Language Arts
• Health Physical Education (Michigan Merit Curriculum)
• Mathematics
• Online Course Experience
• Science - Content Standards by Subject
  • Biology
  • Earth/Space Science
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
• Social Studies
• Visual, Performing and Applied Arts
• World Languages - standards and benchmarks
• Career and Technical Education (CTE) and its relationship to the curiculum

Academy Topics

• Critical Thinking Assssment Test (CAT), funded by NSF http://www.tntech.edu/cat/video-resources/

General Education Committee Members Deb McPherson

Contacts Chair