General Education Assessment Schedule
Area A3: CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING
Course Prefix and Number: ______Course Title: ______
Course Coordinator: ______E-mail: ______
Submission Date: ______College: ______
End of next Program Planning cycle (Self Study due to Dean; see Program Planning) ______
Instructions: Each GE assessment schedule must indicate the plan for assessing all GELOs during the program planning cycle (beginning with the AY of the last PP Self Study and concluding with the last full AY prior to the year in which the PP Self Study is due). Departments may assess any combinations of GELOs in a given year, but they must assess all GE area GELOs in a program review cycle. Some assessment of the course is required each academic year.
GE Student Learning Objective / When will this GELO be assessed?GELO 1: Students should be able to locate and evaluate sources, through library research, and integrate research through appropriate citation and quotation
GELO 2: Students should be able to present effective arguments that use a full range of legitimate rhetorical and logical strategies to articulate and explain their positions on complex issues in dialogue with other points of view
GELO 3: Students should be able to effectively locate, interpret, evaluate, and synthesize evidence in a comprehensive way in support of one’s ideas
GELO 4: Students should be able to identify and critically evaluate the assumptions in and the context of an argument
GELO 5: Students should be able to effectively distinguish and convey inductive and deductive patterns as appropriate, sequencing arguments and evidence logically to draw valid conclusions and articulate related outcomes (implications and consequences)
Other (optional, e.g., diversity, writing):
This assessment schedule must be electronically submitted to <>, by the department chair to the Office of Undergraduate Studies with an electronic copy to the home college. Assessment schedules for all GE courses are due October 1 of the AY in which the PP Self Study is due.