Archived Assessment Report
| Program | FDMA Humanities 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 | Can most of our students (at least 80%) demonstrate personal responsibility via intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence? |
| 3d. Personal and Social Responsibility: Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems | Can most of our students (at least 80%) demonstrate teamwork and value systems? |
| 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 | We will collect data via a Brightspace rubric. I will use the General Education Outcome Rubric for Personal and Social Responsibility. Data will be based on observations over the semester from class discussions, etc. | FDMA 1110 | Most of our students (at least 80%) can demonstrate personal responsibility via intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence. |
| 3d. Personal and Social Responsibility: Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems | We will collect data via a Brightspace rubric. I will use the General Education Outcome Rubric for Personal and Social Responsibility. Data will be based on observations over the semester from class discussions, etc. | FDMA 1110 | Most of our students (at least 80%) can demonstrate teamwork and value systems. |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Summary of Results | Reflection on Focus Area | Intepretation of Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3a. Personal and Social Responsibility: Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence | 16 students: Level 4 (Proficient) 1 student: Level 3 (Developing) 1 student: Level 2 (Emerging) 0 Students: Level 1 (No evidence) 89% of students were proficient. | This supports the target of at least 80% of students demonstrating personal responsibility via intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence. | This shows that what we are doing is sufficient. |
| 3d. Personal and Social Responsibility: Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems | 16 students: Level 4 (Proficient) 1 student: Level 3 (Developing) 1 student: Level 2 (Emerging) 0 Students: Level 1 (No evidence) 89% of students were proficient. | This supports the target of at least 80% of students demonstrating personal responsibility via intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence. | This shows that what we are doing is sufficient. |
| 3a. Personal and Social Responsibility: Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | None. Students were proficient. Also, this course currently runs very infrequently and with low enrollment. There is insufficient data to base changes on this data. |
| Type of Change | |
| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | N/A |
| What data motivated the change? | N/A |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | N/A |
| 3d. Personal and Social Responsibility: Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems | |
|---|---|
| Describe the change that was implemented. | None. Students were proficient. Also, this course currently runs very infrequently and with low enrollment. There is insufficient data to base changes on this data. |
| Type of Change | |
| Change in Assessment Approach or Tools? | N/A |
| What data motivated the change? | N/A |
| Hypothesis about the effect the change will have? | N/A |
| Learning Outcome (or Gen Ed Essential Skill) | Description of Assessment Tool | Population of Courses Assessed |
|---|---|---|
| 3a. Personal and Social Responsibility: Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence | No data will be collected for a second round. The course was offered Spring 2024, but not Spring 2025. | N/A |
| 3d. Personal and Social Responsibility: Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems | No data will be collected for a second round. The course was offered Spring 2024, but not Spring 2025. | N/A |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3a. Personal and Social Responsibility: Intercultural reasoning and intercultural competence | N/A | N/A | |
| 3d. Personal and Social Responsibility: Collaboration skills, teamwork and value systems | N/A | N/A |
Describe any change in student achievement observed as part of this assessment process, and what led to those changes.
No changes observed.
Describe long-term changes in the program(s) that the assessment process led to, and what motivated those changes?
No long term changes.
What did you learn about the teaching and learning of "Practicing Community" in your programs?
Despite a lack of data, we feel confident that students in FDMA 1110 are generally proficient in that area. We look forward to further assessment down the road.
Describe any external factors affecting the program or affecting assessment of the program.
Because the course is only offerred once a year, that effected the rate of data collection. Moving forward, we may develop a rubric for each universal theme ready to collect data. So whenever the course is offered. the data will automatically get collect through Brightspace and be available to analyze.