Archived Assessment Report
| Program | POLS Social Behavioral Gen Ed |
| Assessment Reporter | [email protected] |
| Theme | Practicing Community |
| Review Year | 2024-2025 - Midpoint Report |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| 3a. Personal and Social Responsibility: Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence | Students focus solely on social media and ignore the concepts of framing and bias in media in general. |
| 3e. Personal and Social Responsibility: Civic discourse, civic knowledge and engagement – local and global | Students are able to summarize the compromises involved in the framing of the U.S. Constitution but are not able to analyze the impact of these compromises on the current political system. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population or Courses Assessed | Hypothetical Analysis/Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3a. Personal and Social Responsibility: Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence | Short response/essay on the power of the media in American democracy. | POLS 1120 | Students who demonstrate evidence of reading the textbook section on framing and bias in the media are able to comprehensively respond to the question prompt. Our threshold will be 80% and higher compared to any students who scored under 80% on the question prompt on intercultural reasoning. |
| 3e. Personal and Social Responsibility: Civic discourse, civic knowledge and engagement – local and global | Short response/essay on compromises in framing the U.S. Constitution | POLS 1120 | Students who grasp Senate seat malapportionment and the role of slavery in the framing of the Constitution in their short responses are able to explain and support their own positions while recognizing that there may be multiple valid perspectives. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
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| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
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| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Second Round Results | Intepretation of Results, Pre- and Post-Change | Follow up questions, possible next steps |
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