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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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Trinity College: Trinity College is implementing a program to identify learning expectations for students and faculty and to measure students’ success in reaching those expectations. Approaches to assessment are designed to guide improvement in our curriculum, pedagogy, and residential environment. A major focus of assessment is on 10 Learning Goals that define the College’s General Education Curriculum. Trinity College wishes to measure a student’s learning both within the classroom and the broader campus community, and is examining how the Learning Goals are achieved through coursework and various other collegiate programs (athletics, study abroad, internships, etc).
As part of the assessment of these goals, the College is currently undertaking a Curricular Mapping project. Faculty and students are being asked to align their courses with particular Learning Goals. This exercise allows the College to identify where faculty and students view the greatest overlap between coursework and specific learning goals and where more alignment needs to occur. A core learning goal is effective writing, and the College has implemented a writing program and assessment that begins in the first year and culminates with a writing intensive course within each student’s major and a senior capstone.
Assessment programs are being established for each of the major areas of study, for the study abroad experience, internships, athletics, and various other curricular and co-curricular programs. A liberal arts education is more than in-class pedagogy, and Trinity College aspires to measure and improve the effectiveness of the total collegiate experience. |
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