What are the benefits of the new GER assessment plan?
• It provides a way for faculty to teach GER courses more effectively as GER courses. The objectives establish a foundation for defining what a GER course for a particular category should include and therefore better enable faculty who teach those courses to design them accordingly. • It provides meaningful feedback where it counts most, to faculty teaching GER courses. Focusing on outcomes-based assessment in the courses gives faculty the data they need to determine how well their courses are helping students to meet the GER objectives and how to improve their courses to better enable students to do so. • It provides faculty the independence to create student learning outcomes and means of evaluating those outcomes that are appropriate to their courses. The CUE gives broad aims, but the faculty decide how those aims will be achieved in their classes. • It provides for greater coherence among the GER courses in a category. Students, their academic advisors, and faculty teaching other c
