What distinguishes the pilot (i.e., the revised core curriculum) from the standing core curriculum?
A5. The goals and student learning outcomes of General Education apply to the pilot and to the standing core. What distinguishes the standing core from the pilot are models of student development, credit hours, reform expectations, and the relationship of general education to the majors. Requiring 53 credit hours of coursework towards graduation, the model of student development in the standing core is teacher-centered in instructional design and is comprised largely of sequences of core courses and the distribution of courses from the majors. While the faculty and courses in the pilot, more or less, come from the disciplines, the model of student development, requiring 48 credit hours, depends largely on student-centered and outcome-based learning with quantitative and qualitative measures of achievement. Intentional, coherent, corrective, and integrative, the model of student development in the pilot is influenced by the demands of a changing world and the nations’ need for “accounta
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