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Statewide Student Learning Outcomes Florida Community College Principles of Assessment
1. Follow the students: Institutional Research studies indicate that students follow multiple paths in the completion of courses that meet general education requirements. The assessment process should not hinder the student's progress in completion of a degree.
2. Assessment is about student learning: The focus of assessment is on graduating students' learning not course content or faculty teaching. Moreover, general education occurs across courses and co-curricular experience and cannot be isolated to a particular course.
3. Faculty are integral to the process: Faculty and staff must be involved in the assessment process through the development of assessment tools to assess student attainment of generale education outcomes that were developed and adopted by faculty and staff, the development of scoring rubrics, and the scoring of student work. Participating faculty will also be supported through training and incentives as appropriate.
4. Anonymity of faculty and students involved in the process must be guaranteed: General education is an institutional activity that involves faculty, staff,and students. At no time during the process should individual faculty or student participants' results be identified. Learning outcomes assessment integrity should be maintained by following processes that maintain the confidentiality of participants.
5. Assessment results are aggregated: General education outcomes assessment results will be reported in the aggregate because the results represent the institution, not individual students or faculty. In addition, assessment results will be shared with faculty, staff, and students.
6. Assessment results are to be used to improve student learning: The assessment results are to be regularly and systematically considered by the facultt, staff, and administrators in order to take action to improve learning.
7. The assessment process is to be reviewed periodically: General education assessment tools (tasks and scoring rubrics)o and the process will be reviewed to improve process validity and efficiency. |
