Department of Liberal Arts - General Education Assessment Project

Mission

GER Outcomes

Year One

Mentors/Leaders

Task Force

GER Subcommittee

Training and Resource

Models for Assessment

General Education Assessment Project

The State of Florida Department of Education has recommended that post-secondary institutions collect information regarding the efficacy of their respective general education programs. The methodology used to collect this data has not been dictated by the legislature. Thus, the General Education Assessment (GEA) Task Force was assembled by the General Education Requirements Subcommittee of the College Curriculum Committee in order to achieve the following:

Florida Community College General Education Outcomes
This link provides a list of the Florida Community College General Education Philosophy, Knowledge Bases, Intellectual Competencies and Values. You must scroll down to the GER section.

What's New

Faculty Needed for Pilot Program. We need more participants for our curriculum-embedded pilot project in communication. You can find the full details here [insert hyperlink to document] in the Pilot Proposal Guidelines, but this is the short version: if you have a written assignment (250-500 words) or an oral presentation assignment (3-5 minutes) in your class, we are asking that you consider including the work submitted to you in this pilot program. This pilot project is very important, and the demands on your time should be minimal. Please, if you have any work in your courses that looks like it might fit these guidelines, contact Youlanda Henry so that she can give you more details about the pilot program. Deadline: January 16th.
Rubric Feedback Sought. The window to provide feedback on the rubrics that will guide our assessment of critical thinking, quantitative skills, information literacy, and socio-cultural responsibility will close on January 23rd. Once completed, these rubrics will have real implications for how we assess (and, ultimately, teach) these areas of General Education. Please, pick a topic area that is of interest to you, take a look at the rubric for that area, and provide your feedback. To view and work on these rubrics, you will have to self-enroll in our Assessment Community on Blackboard. To do this:
1. Log on to Blackboard
2. Click on Community Tab
3. Click on Faculty under Organization Catalog.
4. Notice Assessment Community and click on Enroll (far to the right)
5. On the Self-enroll screen, click Submit. You should receive a Receipt: Success message next.
6. Assessment Community should now be available to you on the Community Tab in My Organizations

Year One
The task force has selected Communication as the first General Education area to be assessed. Click here for the task force's definition of communication.

Florida Community College General Education Assessment Mentors/Leaders

Patricia Bell, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Youlanda Henry, Communications
Bill Meisel, Mathematics
Lourdes Norman, Natural Sciences
Maria Oehler, Natural Sciences
Joel Rappoport, Mathematics
Wayne Singletary, Workforce representative
John Wall, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Andreia Thaxton, Humanities
Christopher Twiggs, Communications
Ron Wolf, Workforce

AAC&U Institute on General Education – Florida Community College Reports
The General Education Assessment Mentors individuals attended the AAC&U Institute on General Education in 2007. A second group of individuals attended the 2008 institute.

General Education Review Subcommittee

Members

Presentations and Training Materials

General Education Assessment College-wide Meeting Powerpoint - November 16, 2007
Assessment 101 PowerPoint presentation – presented to the GER Subcommittee, April 19, 2007, by Deborah Morris, Lynne Crosby, and Wayne Singletary.
Handouts from the meeting - A Comparison of Florida Community College GER, State General Education Learning Outcomes, and 21st Century Learning Outcomes
General Education Assessment Models - narrated PowerPoint and more!

Other Florida Community College Assessment Resources

Web Resources