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FAQs | Individual Assessment

• What's wrong with our current GE?
• Who will develop rubrics for the GE Goals and Outcomes?
• How will it be determined that a student has met an outcome?
• What if a particular assignment only partially fulfills an outcome? How can that be noted?
• How many outcomes will students be allowed to petition outside of courses?
  
• Will there be a rubric for each outcome within the seven goals?
• Would it be possible to add second language study under Goal 4. "Communicative effectively using a variety of formats"?
  
• Are there faculty or programs on campus already using rubrics for outcome assessment?
• To what degree will courses listed as potentially satisfying a GE outcome include that outcome in the course syllabus as a student learning outcome?
• Might the new program make the CSUCI multicultural graduation requirement now separate from GE unnecessary?

What's wrong with our current GE? | Back to Questions

• Most crucially, our current GE does not provide a shared educational vision linked to the university mission. A GE program that articulates a clear set of ideas can help students and faculty carry these ideas forward into the rest of the curriculum and co-curriculum.
  
  
• Our current GE assessment plan is unworkable. There is no way to link what students learn and what's happening in courses to our stated outcomes, short of devising a stand-study for WASC. Increasingly, both the CSU and WASC expect integrated, embedded assessment, and our current GE program makes that impossible. The new GE program will achieve such assessment without adverse impacts on faculty, particularly during the lead-in to accreditation visits.
  
  
• The current "distribution model" creates a chaotic experience for students in which they often fail to connect course work to essential learning.

Faculty with expertise with specific outcomes will develop rubrics for evaluating student work and course suitability. These groups will also approve student petitions to meet outcomes with work from outside of courses.

For courses identified with specific outcomes, the faculty member teaching the course will determine whether the particular product (i.e. paper, experiment, other assignment) has met the outcome. Students will be able to upload documents to the e-portfolio only upon faculty approval. Students might also petition to have accomplishments outside the classroom evaluated by a faculty committee for a particular outcome, using the rubric for that outcome.

Yes, the rubrics for each goal can specify the means of achieving the outcomes under each Goal. For example, the rubric for Outcome 4.2 "Write effectively in various forms" could include a second language as one "form."

Might the new program make the CSUCI multicultural graduation requirement now separate from GE unnecessary? This is one area where General Education committees deal with many student petitions and transfer students perceive bottlenecks in completing their GE. | Back to Questions