Assessments
Information from Gabriel Arellano:
This Fall we are tasked with running three assessments. Two of the assessments focus on two of our four general competencies and another one focuses on as many of the four general competencies as possible. (NOTE: The four general competencies relevant to our department are Communication Skills, Critical Thinking Skills, Empirical & Quantitative Skills, and Teamwork)
The two assessments that focus on only two of the four are the Written Communication Assessment and the Critical Thinking Assessment, while the other is the Faculty Collaborative.
Core Curriculum Courses (ASTR 1303, 1304, 1403 & 1404, ENGR 1201and PHYS 1401, 1402, 1405, 1407, 2425 & 2426
Faculty who teach any course that is a core curriculum course must run and submit a Written Communication Assessment and a Critical Thinking Assessment for each course you teach that is a core curriculum course. In our department, the core curriculum courses are ASTR 1303, 1304, 1403 & 1404, and PHYS 1401, 1402, 1405, 1407, 2425 & 2426. If you teach one or more of these courses, please run the Written Communication Assessment and a Critical Thinking Assessment for each one of these courses that you teach.
All of our faculty are required to run the Faculty Collaborative. Since the faculty collaborative focuses on assessing all four general education competencies relevant to our department, a lab report or an essay is a good assignment to tag for the Faculty Collaborative. You are only required to tag one assignment, but feel free to tag more if you want.
Attached are the six documents.
1) A WORD document and a PDF with the instructions and the rubrics for the Written Communication Assessment and the Critical Thinking Assessment.
2) An excel file to use for core curriculum courses with a lab component
3) Two excel file to use for core curriculum courses without a lab component (ASTR 1303 and ASTR 1304)
a lab component
4) Two excel files for engineering to use to run their Problem Solving Assessment (ENGR 1201) and 3-D Rigid Body Equilibrium Problem (ENGR 2301)
5) A PDF with information about tagging artifacts for the Faculty Collaborative
6) Video with instructions on how to tag an artifact for the Faculty Collaborative