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Georgetown University is dedicated to building a culture of inquiry around teaching and learning. A culture of inquiry transmits an institutional commitment to asking the question: How do we know that our students are acquiring the knowledge, skills, and sensibilities in the way we hope and expect? To address this question, Georgetown College funded a curriculum renewal project where over a period of four years,16 departments initiated efforts to assess the goals of their curriculum and revise accordingly.
In 2007-08 Georgetown developed an Assessment Portal (http://assessment.georgetown.edu/index.html) as a resource for faculty and departments. It features three of the curriculum renewal departments -- Biology, German, Sociology – which have extended or initiated comprehensive assessments of their curricula to improve student learning. In addition to these and other internal examples of assessment, this first effort at broad dissemination of assessment information also includes institutional data from major national surveys on student learning, tools and techniques for practical assessment, and examples from other universities. The Portal is expected to grow rapidly in the years ahead to support and advance the university's culture of inquiry.
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