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Identify both the Specialized Knowledge and the Intellectual Skills that students will be able to demonstrate after completing w88 casino games login curriculum.

Specialized Knowledge. Specialized knowledge refers to the knowledge, skills, and values that are specific to w88 casino games login discipline.

Intellectual Skills. Intellectual Skills refer to the skills and abilities that all University students hone through General Education/Core Curriculum, particularly the fundamental competencies of composition and communication, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking and use of information. These Intellectual Skills correspond to Silver Core Objectives 1-3.

Designing an effective w88 casino games login plan

1. First and foremost, your degree w88 casino games login and course-specific SLOs should be aligned and complementary. In other words, a degree-w88 casino games login SLO should be supported by the SLOs of individual courses, and the course-specific SLOs should reflect to a certain degree one or more of the w88 casino games login learning outcomes.
2. This alignment allows the assessment of student learning in an individual course to provide data for the w88 casino games login SLOs. No other direct assessment of student work or performance is then needed, and if additional w88 casino games login-level assessment data is desired, your faculty and staff can focus on exit or alumni surveys, job or graduate or professional school placement, time-to-degree rates, course evaluations, etc. In fact, many of these data will be provided for academic departments by the Office of the Provost each fall.
3. Thirdly, although all University courses included in the General Catalog must have published SLOs, you should anticipate the value of required courses for the major: targeting required courses rather than electives will allow you to measure student learning within a cohort of majors at various points in w88 casino games login curriculum.
4. Finally, once your SLOs are written and your assessment methods decided upon, you should endeavor to keep them in place for the duration of your University w88 casino games login Review cycle. This will ensure that you collect consistent, historical data from year to year and posit sound, data-driven conclusions in your self-study for w88 casino games login Review.

Consider where Specialized Knowledge and Intellectual Skills converge in w88 casino games login curriculum, and identify a gateway, a mid-curriculum, and a Capstone/senior course in w88 casino games login curriculum.

Whichever w88 casino games login you choose, these three moments should allow you to assess both types of knowledge and skills in a longitudinal fashion from majors' progress from 100-level w88 casino games login to his/her senior year. Pay particular attention to the fundamental competencies of written and oral communication and critical thinking and use of information.

If your department offers Silver Core Vein II (Core Objectives 4-8) or Vein III (Core Objectives 9-12) courses, these may represent convenient opportunities for introductory and/or mid-curriculum w88 casino games login, particularly if the course(s) is also required for the major. If you offer Core Objective 13 or 14 courses, these are ideal for senior-level w88 casino games login.

Case study

The Communication Studies department has seven published w88 casino games login Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to do:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the communication studies discipline, including its theories, concepts, and how the study of communication is applied to academic and non-academic settings
2. Demonstrate competency in systematic inquiry and research methods including asking questions, finding appropriate resources and/or conducting independent data gathering and analysis, while understanding the limits of research methodologies
3. Demonstrate competency and confidence in oral message development and delivery, including determining and focusing message purpose, organizing appropriate information, and effectively presenting a message appropriate to specific audiences and contexts
4. Demonstrate competency and confidence in written message development including adapting message to specific contexts, mediums, and audiences
5. Demonstrate competency in communication in relational settings (interpersonal, intercultural, group, and organizational environments)
6. Demonstrate competency in communication for public advocacy contexts
7. Demonstrate competency in being an ethical communicator in for our increasingly diverse and globalized world

Owing to a range of Silver Core offerings, this department has many opportunities for assessing student learning in gateway, mid-curriculum, and Capstone/senior w88 casino games login. For example:

Gateway

COM 113 (Fundamentals of Speech Communication) addresses several introductory-level knowledge and skills in its SLOs, including "principle methods of inquiry [and] guiding theoretical perspectives," identifying "basic public speaking principles, including audience analysis, rhetorical devices, persuasive appeals, and features of argument," and such skills as "problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict management." In sum, the SLOs of COM 113 underpin many w88 casino games login-level SLOs (at least 1-5 above) and collectively offer a moment for assessing various Intellectual Skills.

Mid-curriculum

The SLOs of COM 311 (Communication Research Methods) largely support w88 casino games login SLO 2 above and thus offer an effective assessment moment for Intellectual Skills. At the same, the SLOs of COM 407 (Communication Between the Sexes) and 412 (Intercultural Communication) specifically support w88 casino games login SLO 7 and offer opportunities to assess Specialized Knowledge.

Capstone

Finally, the SLOs of two Capstone options, COM 468 (Facilitating Difficult Discussions) and 475 (Communication and Community Engagement), specially address w88 casino games login SLO 6, while generally reflecting most of the B.A. w88 casino games login's SLOs. Being Capstones, they combine Specialized Knowledge and Intellectual Skills.

Review the syllabi for w88 casino games login gateway, mid-curriculum, and Capstone/senior courses to identify Specialized Knowledge and Individual Skills that are common both across the three points in the curriculum and in multiple sections, if offered, of the chosen courses.

• Keep in mind these chosen courses should collectively support your degree w88 casino games login SLOs.
• It can be difficult to plan effective assessments or expect informative data if multiple sections of the same course ask students to complete unrelated assignments or feature disparate w88 casino games login. This is why departments should ensure the catalog copy of a given course includes a common set of w88 casino games login that all faculty teaching it can use, in addition to any w88 casino games login that they wish to add to their own iterations of the course.

Case study

Take, for example, the B.S. in Biochemistry, whose gateway w88 casino games login (BCH 110) and Senior Thesis ensure a continuity of Specialized Knowledge and Intellectual Skills.

Gateway

BCH 110 asks students to conduct critical reading of texts that present ethical dilemmas, to engage critically with others' opinions, and to engage with the real-world impact of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology issues (e.g., GMOs) and to write and present on scientific papers. These SLOs can be reflected through various assignments, depending on the faculty member teaching BCH 110, but these outcomes are vital to a student's progress in the w88 casino games login.

Mid-Curriculum

Moreover, the mid-curriculum w88 casino games login (BCH 400) focuses on student learning of discipline-specific material and thus continues the foundation of Specialized Knowledge that majors - having learning the basics of research and written and oral communication in BCH 101 - will carry to their Senior Theses.

Capstone

This is because when students complete the Senior Thesis in Biochemistry, they must conduct appropriate research, produce the written thesis, and present on their methodology and three different audiences with quite different agenda (faculty, students, and off-campus/professional representatives).

Choose tools and strategies for course assessments and have faculty teaching w88 casino games login gateway, mid-curriculum, and Capstone/senior courses agree on them.

The list of w88 casino games login tools and strategies included is intended to provide you with suggested models for implementing course-level w88 casino games login. As described in Step 3, if faculty members agree on both the types of w88 casino games login to be implemented within various sections of a course and across the gateway, mid-curriculum, and Capstone/senior-level courses, then your w88 casino games login data will be all the more consistent and informative.

Other good w88 casino games login tools are professional, standardized examinations (if expected in your discipline), course evaluations, and alumni surveys.

Course w88 casino games login information

Do w88 casino games login chosen courses rely on:	Then a sound w88 casino games login tool is:
Writing (including a culminating thesis) or oral presentations?	Rubrics, of which University w88 casino games login offer many models (LINK) and which can be shared with students ahead of time. In order to save time and energy, rubrics can include both an w88 casino games login scale (0-4 is recommended) and a grading scale.
Tests to cover discipline-specific material	Common questions, or at least questions designed with a common agenda to measure student mastery of, e.g., core ideas, principles, or analytical skills
Knowledge retained from pre-requisites or complicated material that the student must retain going forward in the w88 casino games login	A pre- and post-test (ungraded or not) that measures that retention
Retention and/or development of experiential learning or values important to thinking in w88 casino games login discipline	A pre- and post-survey that collects student input on these experiences and values. The post-survey can be administered as an addendum on the University's w88 casino games login evaluations, and the same software can be used to disseminate the pre-survey, if desired.
Complicated lectures or the introduction of a large amount of material	So-called 'muddiest point' surveys that ask the students to identify in a given week or at the end of a given unit in the w88 casino games login to identify specific concepts, methods, etc. that remain unclear to them.

Other good w88 casino games login tools are professional, standardized examinations (if expected in your discipline), course evaluations and alumni surveys.

Implement your chosen course assessment tools and strategies and focus on collecting data for course and w88 casino games login SLOs on a rotating schedule.

Again, use the requirements of Silver Core assessment to your advantage: if you offer courses satisfying Core Objectives 9-14, then conducting assessment in these courses should inform the measurement of your w88 casino games login-level SLOs as well. Programs do not need to conduct full-scale assessment of all learning outcomes each and every year; if your degree w88 casino games login has, for example, 5 SLOs encompassing a range of Specialized Knowledge and Intellectual Skills, you do not need to seek quantitative data on all 5 learning outcomes each year.

Rather, determine a convenient cycle of assessment, in which your faculty can focus on 1-2 w88 casino games login SLOs per year. An effective means of designing this cycle is to consider the frequency of your gateway, mid-curriculum, and Capstone/senior-level courses: are any offered only in fall or spring? if offered in both, does enrollment tend to increase in one semester versus another? It may also help to try to the extent possible to distribute evenly assessment efforts over the fall and spring semesters.

Finally, make use of the data that you collect regarding student learning. Continuous improvement is a vital aspect of w88 casino games login assessment, enabling degree programs to enhance the quality and effectiveness of their curricula. Through ongoing evaluation and analysis, institutions can identify areas of improvement and implement targeted strategies to refine their degree programs. This iterative process allows instructors to adapt to changing needs of students and trends in their respective fields.

By engaging in continuous improvement, degree w88 casino games login assessment fosters a culture of innovation and excellence. It encourages faculty members and administrators to collaborate and share best practices, leveraging their collective expertise to optimize the learning experience for students. Regular assessment provides valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of a w88 casino games login, enabling educators to make data-informed decisions about curriculum design, instructional methods, and student support services. Ultimately, continuous improvement enables degree programs to deliver quality education that equips students with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their chosen professions.