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General Education Assessment

General Education Assessment. Critical Thinking Pilot Curriculum Committee Summer, 2006. Our Question. How well are Viterbo University seniors showing the core ability of thinking ?. Our Standard. Thinking , core ability #1:

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General Education Assessment

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  1. General Education Assessment Critical Thinking Pilot Curriculum Committee Summer, 2006

  2. Our Question How well are Viterbo University seniors showing the core ability of thinking?

  3. Our Standard Thinking, core ability #1: “Students engage in the process of inquiry and problem solving which involves both critical and creative thinking.”

  4. Spring Plan • Collect sample spring capstone course projects • Collect departmental assessments and assessmentmechanisms

  5. Spring Plan • Synthesize a cross-campus definition of that core ability • Develop a rubric from this synthesized definition

  6. Spring Plan • Apply core ability rubric to sample capstone projects • Synthesize and summarize results

  7. CC Assessment Group Jack Havertape Sr. Georgia Christensen Rich Maresh Jason Howard Keith Knutson Rolf Samuels

  8. Method • Used a critical thinking rubric • Tested rubric with sample • Revised rubric

  9. Method • Assessed random documents • Two readers for each piece • Third reader where score deviation > 1.0

  10. Pool • Nine departments • Some pre-sampled • Some we sampled — 10% of sample pool

  11. Findings

  12. Findings

  13. CC needs • Aptdocuments • Allstudent work • Assignments, not assessments

  14. Faculty might • Foreground question/problem • Raisealternatives • Promote self-consciousness

  15. 2007 GE Assessment • Communication — Written — Oral Dept. assessments • Community Involvement

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