General Education Assessment: Requirements and Best Practices
Start Date
8-18-2020 12:00 AM
Description
Studies have shown that nearly all general education courses serve as gateway courses for persistence and success. Students from under-represented populations are more likely to struggle in their first-year and, as a result, are less likely to persist in college to degree completion. This means that providing high-quality and impactful teaching in general education courses is essential to our land grant mission to provide not just access, but the support to be successful, to under-served populations. USU's General Education Assessment Plan was designed to help us better understand achievement inequities in our general education courses and to provide the institution with formative information on how we can better serve all students, with a special focus on students from access populations who often struggle to navigate higher eduction in their first-year. Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of the "whys" and "hows" of USU's General Education Assessment Plan. They will understand what is required of them in their general education courses and will be provided example assignments and best practices from all general education areas.
General Education Assessment: Requirements and Best Practices
Studies have shown that nearly all general education courses serve as gateway courses for persistence and success. Students from under-represented populations are more likely to struggle in their first-year and, as a result, are less likely to persist in college to degree completion. This means that providing high-quality and impactful teaching in general education courses is essential to our land grant mission to provide not just access, but the support to be successful, to under-served populations. USU's General Education Assessment Plan was designed to help us better understand achievement inequities in our general education courses and to provide the institution with formative information on how we can better serve all students, with a special focus on students from access populations who often struggle to navigate higher eduction in their first-year. Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of the "whys" and "hows" of USU's General Education Assessment Plan. They will understand what is required of them in their general education courses and will be provided example assignments and best practices from all general education areas.