What happens if students dont do very well on some of the learning outcomes?
It is not our intent to show that all students have met all learning outcomes. Rather, we are demonstrating that we have a culture of assessment and that based on the systematic assessment of our students performance, we are working to improve the quality of student learning. • What does this effort mean in terms of faculty time? Ideally, the implementation of the assessment plan will be integrated into the flow of what a faculty member has been doing in class. The only difference is that data are aggregated by groups of students (e.g., those taking the final examination in XXX) rather than individuallyas in grading. Sometimes, it will be necessary to capture a slice of an examination or project in order to have the assessment match the learning outcome (e.g., tallying performance on the subset of questions that required critical thinking or the part of a project that assessed communicating clearly in writing).
