Assessment

How CASE DUS learning outcomes will be assessed

As part of the changes related to the General Education Diversity in the United States shared goal, the BFC mandated that an assessment process be adopted. How the assessment is completed is to be determined by the degree-granting unit.

The College's Committee for Undergraduate Education has recommended that a process similar to the process used for the General Education Common Ground courses be adopted. Proceeding in this way will minimize confusion that may ensue when having different processes for a similar type of process. 

It is important to note that this change is not about whether to assess learning outcomes. That decision has already been made by the BFC. The question here is about how to report that the learning outcomes have been assessed. 

Each instructor for each section of a CASE Diversity in the United States course will provide to the College of Arts and Sciences each semester:

  1. the course syllabus, which must contain learning objectives in alignment with the CASE DUS learning outcomes;
  2. the assessment instrument(s) (assignment, exam questions, etc.) used in the class to measure at least one of the CASE DUS learning outcomes; and
  3. a report that indicates the extent to which the students in the class met the outcome(s) selected.

This process will begin Fall 2020. This question is not about whether to assess (that is mandated by the Bloomington Faculty Council), but instead how to assess. The approach here is similar to the current General Education Common Ground assessment process.