What is the process for revalidation?
The first step for any department with courses up for revalidation should be attending a Revalidation Workshop sponsored by the Essential Studies Committee (you’ll be informed of the date in advance), and the second step should be meeting with your departmental liaison, who should have already been in contact with your department. This person is a member of the ES Committee who is assigned to work with you throughout the revalidation process. Your liaison can meet with faculty, individually or collectively, to answer questions or provide additional explanation and information. What you’ll learn by attending the Revalidation Workshop, in very brief form, is that you will need to submit direct assessment data as part of the revalidation process. In order to collect direct assessment data, you’ll begin by identifying a goal for learning within the class that aligns with one of the ES goals. Then collect data (see “Data Collection” above) related to the selected goal, analyze the data, and
