Assessment

Programs and courses should be regularly assessed to ensure that they are achieving their goals. We have discussed elsewhere in this section on teaching what at least some of the key goals of interdisciplinary courses and programs should be. Here we provide some guidance on assessment instruments.

We provide the following guidelines for assessing programs and writing at:

http://www.units.muohio.edu/aisorg/PUBS/AssessingIDS/index.shtml

Assessing Interdisciplinary Programs

AIS Interdisciplinary General Education Guidelines (revised version, endorsed October 2002)

Assessing Interdisciplinary Writing

• Christopher R. Wolfe and Carolyn Haynes, "Interdisciplinary Writing Assessment

  • Profiles," Issues in Integrative Studies v. 21 (2003). (2003 Wolfe/Haynes rubric)

• • Veronica Boix Mansilla, Elizabeth Dawes Duraisingh, Christopher R. Wolfe,

  • Carolyn Haynes, “Targeted Assessment Rubric: An Empirically Grounded Rubric

  • for Interdisciplinary Writing,” Journal of Higher Education 80:3 (May/June 2009),

  • 334-353 (2009 Boix Mansilla/Duraisingh/Wolfe/Haynes rubric)

See also the chapter by Michael Field and Don Stowe on assessment in Carolyn Haynes, ed. (2002) Innovations in Interdisciplinary Teaching.