What effect will the new GER assessment procedure have on courses to be considered for inclusion in the GERs?
Previously, faculty seeking to have courses included in a GER category were asked to write a justification for proposed inclusion to be appended to the Course Action Form. Because there were no clearly established criteria for judging whether a course should be included in a category, decisions sometimes seemed to be arbitrary to the faculty who submitted Course Action Forms. Under the new system, any course that, in addition to meeting basic criteria, has documentation showing that it has student learning outcomes that are clearly and meaningfully formulated to enable students to meet the appropriate GER category objectives and means of evaluating those outcomes that are clearly and meaningfully designed to measure how well the course is helping students to meet the outcomes will be approved. The criteria for inclusion are much clearer. For specific criteria, see Council on Undergraduate Education GER rubric.
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