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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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The University of California, Berkeley launched the Undergraduate Student Learning Initiative (USLI) in Fall 2007 at the request of the Academic Senate Divisional Council. This campus-wide initiative is designed to support departments in establishing educational goals and evaluation procedures for all undergraduate programs. As a result of the initiative, faculty and students will have a shared understanding of the purpose of the major and what graduating seniors are expected to know or to be able to do at the end of their course of study. The initiative is in keeping with the fundamental principle at Berkeley that the evaluation of student achievement should be locally defined, discipline specific, and faculty driven. A joint Academic Senate-Administration Faculty Advisory Committee provides shared oversight for the initiative. Ongoing workshops and consultations are being held to assist departments in defining learning goals and identifying appropriate direct assessment procedures at the program level with a focus on papers, projects, exams, and capstone experiences. Each department will publicly post statements of their approaches on their website, which will be linked from a centrally managed gateway site. Departments will continue to own these statements, which will also be reviewed as a regular part of the campus's Academic Program Review process. This department-based approach is now being emulated on a system-wide basis. |
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University of California, Berkeley |
