Assesment and Accreditation

Linda Suskie

• From "distribution" based model to "competency" based model (Gates)

some how the distribution model means student "select" from broad group of courses

Kuber-Ross (Death or Changes)

• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance
  

What is assessment ( teaching)

• Deciding what we want our student to learn
• Making sure they learn it.
  

High Expectations

• We don't do it enough
  

General Education

• She says we need to do this
• 20 - 80 rule ( 20 percent of the courses provide 80% of gen-ed. [ focus here ]
  

Distributed Education

• Does this mean that students are going to be learning from **MANY** places?
  

What do you need to know

• Knowledge and understanding
• Skills
• Attitudes and dispositions
  

ABC

• audiance
• behavior
• content
  

Common Program Outcomes

• Writing in the discipline
• Critcal analysis
• Information Literacy (critical thinking? Way beyond library resources)
• Teamwork

What is the spectrum of objectives

• thinking > adding 2 numbers
• rubrics
  

What is a good learning goal

• Outcomes - what graduates should be able to do
• Clear - no fuzzy goals
• Observable - what students should be able to do ( attitudes and values ? )
• Skills and /or attitudes/values
• Important - meet student employee needs