Lindenwood's Three-Year Roadmap for General Education Assessment
(2022-2025)
51福利社's Three-Year Roadmap for General Education Assessment outlines a new vision, strategy, and tactics for general education assessment.
General Education Learning Outcomes
Lindenwood's General Education Program is designed to support students' development toward Graduate Attributes.
Lions are Leaders
Lindenwood adopted the Graduate Attributes in fall of 2021 and is currently transitioning from the previous Institutional Learning Outcomes, with implementation of the graduate attributes in Spring 2023. Each graduate attribute includes outcomes, an aligned rubric, and is assessed through Community of Practice Model.
Communities of Practice Model of Assessment
51福利社 uses a Communities of Practice model of assessment for its general education program. To read more about this approach, please visit our blog post: by Robyne Elder and Bethany Alden-Rivers.
For more information on Graduate Attribute Outcomes, visit the Graduate Attribute webpage.
FAQs
For faculty and staff for communities of practice model of assessment.
What is a 鈥淐ommunities of Practice鈥� approach to assessment?
A聽community of practice聽is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. This聽definition聽reflects the fundamental social nature of human learning (Source: wegner-trayner.com).
Starting in fall 2019, a Community of Practice for Written Communication formed to assess ILO 3.1, and in spring 2020, a separate Community of Practice for Spoken Communication convened to assess ILO 3.2. Since this time a community of practice has formed each semester to assess an ILO which has now transitioned to graduate attributes. For more information, please see the Three-Year Roadmap for Assessment.
Each Community of Practice uses a validated rubric to score a stratified sample of student learning artifacts (assessments), which are extracted from Canvas (LMS). Each assessment is scored by at least two different members of the Community of Practice, and the data from this process are considered for learning improvement opportunities.聽With the transition to graduate attributes, faculty are encouraged to use signature assignments as their assessments.
How does the shift to a Communities of Practice model affect the former General Education assessment process in Canvas?
Since Fall 2020,聽faculty were no longer required to score key assessments in Canvas. However, because the Communities of Practices will be using these assessments for their scoring, faculty will still need to include the key assessment in the course. As we transition to graduate attributes, we ask faculty to use a similar process and have a signature assignment aligned to the appropriate rubric to assess the graduate attribute that aligns to their course.
How will the Community of Practice know which assessment to use for their scoring?
Each general education course has continued to align with two ILOs, however as we transition to graduate attributes, each course will align to one graduate attribute. This work is being done through the聽Graduate Attribute Alignment and Assessment Committee.
If you have a question about the graduate attribute for your course, please contact the聽Graduate Attribute Alignment and Assessment Committee听辞谤听assessment@lindenwood.edu.
For the current list of general education courses and aligning graduate attributes, please see below link to 'General Education Courses and Aligning Graduate Attributes'.
If you are interested in joining a Community of Practice, please contact聽assessment@lindenwood.edu.
Resources
Reports
- Fall 2019 General Education Assessment Report: Focus on Written Communication
- Spring 2020 General Education Assessment Report: Focus on Spoken Communication
- Fall 2020 General Education Assessment Report: Focus on Diverse Perspectives
- Spring 2021 General Education Assessment Report: Focus on Civic Responsibility
- Fall 2021 General Education Assessment Report: Focus on Critical Thinking
- Spring 2022 General Education Assessment Report: Focus on Adaptive Thinking
