I teach a lower level course that isn’t part of the General Education Curriculum: why isn’t it?
What is being done with this data? Who sees it? Initially, the GEATF members and Marnie Jones, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, will have access to the data. Later, the data will be available to the SACS site team as we get closer to the visit. This May the GEATF will review the data and make a report that will go the General Education Council; relevant sections of the report will go to Department Chairs. The evaluation is at the programmatic, not the course, level. Initial improvements may center on methodology such as improvements in process and procedures for collecting data; it might lead to changes in the actual expression of the outcomes: assessment might reveal we need to clarify what the outcomes mean. It may lead to a more direct alignment between assignments and with stated learning outcomes.
