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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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Oberlin College has a standing Assessment Committee consisting of faculty from Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music, administrators and students. Using workshops and face-to-face meetings with each department, Oberlin has successfully engaged the faculty in developing and assessing departmental learning goals using both indirect (e.g. surveys) and direct (e.g. portfolios, rubrics) measures. Each department reports annually to the Dean on their activities and results. The members of the Assessment Committee respond to each department, offering suggestions for improvements when necessary. The primary tasks of the Committee are to facilitate assessment and educate the wider community on benefits and practices.
After reviewing several years of departmental results, the Assessment Committee believes that those results can be used to also assess general education. In A&S there is a high level of congruence between departmental and institutional goals. In addition to synthesizing the departmental assessment results, the Assessment Committee will work with committees overseeing specific requirements such as quantitative and writing proficiencies. Representatives of those committees will work with instructors teaching courses that satisfy those proficiencies and review samples of student work in the context of the goals of those requirements rather than those of the individual courses.
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