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Developing
GE Outcomes
Assessment
2000-2001
Glossary
AAHE
Principles
Learning
Goals
GE
Outcomes
Guidelines
for
Assessment
California
State University, Sacramento
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GUIDELINES
FOR PURPOSES, PROCESSES, AND USES OF
ASSESSMENT
Good outcomes
assessment involves:
- Use of the CSUS mission, the
proposed baccalaureate learning goals and expectations as
guides to assessment.
- Development of meaningful,
manageable, and sustainable assessment
practices.
- A collegial, consensual process
involving faculty, staff, and students in meaningful
conversations about supporting teaching, learning, and
student progress.
- Reliance on faculty to determine
their program’s mission, goals, objectives, and
assessment priorities, and the implications of assessment
results.
- Use of evidence to guide
decision-making and to improve programs.
- Assessment as an on-going,
incremental process of improvement, rather than a
“one-shot” effort to meet external
requirements.
- Assessment of entire programs, not
individuals within them.
- Use of readily available
information, when relevant.
- Use of multiple measures of
important objectives.
- Strict adherence to
confidentiality and informed consent guidelines in the
collection and reporting of assessment data.
From Palombra and
Banta, 1999 and CSUB Assessment Handbook
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