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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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Pomona College recognizes and applauds the diversity of learning that takes place across its curriculum and accepts the difficulty of identifying goals for student learning that could be meaningfully applied to every discipline. With this pluralistic model in mind, the College regularly asks departments to define and redefine their own goals and to implement their own mechanisms for measuring progress toward achieving those goals. At the end of each academic year, the departments submit reports on steps taken in this direction, noting in particular any modifications made to the curriculum in response to verifiable deficiencies in student learning. The administration supports these departmentally-driven processes in a number of ways. Pomona has long since established a regular cycle of departmental self-studies that include external review by teams of experts in the relevant field. More recently the College has brought on a consultant to work with individual departments to help them in the transition to more learning based goals and systems of evaluation. Pomona has also fostered the development of senior exercises in every department, exercises that can not only demonstrate a student’s mastery of the intellectual content and tools of the discipline but allow for comparisons, both within a particular student cohort and over time |
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