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Communication (Written and Oral)
Critical Thinking
Cultural and Social Understanding
Information Literacy
Personal Development
Quantitative Reasoning
Scientific Reasoning
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Students will demonstrate an ability to interact with others
through reading, writing, and oral communication resulting in
understanding and being understood.
Reading and Writing assessed each semester using ETS Proficiency Profile
starting in Spring 2012.
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Interpretation of meaning of key terms
Recognition of actual material
Appropriate transition words
Incorrect word choice
Agreement among basic grammatical elements
Oral Communication – assessed using STAGE beginning Fall
2012.
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Students will demonstrate critical thinking by
evaluating evidence and applying reasoning
to decide how to think and act
Assessed each semester using ETS Proficiency
Profile starting in Spring 2012
◦ Examples of skills assessed include evaluation of
competing casual explanations
◦ Determination of relevance of information for
evaluating an argument or conclusion
◦ Evaluation of data for consistency with known facts,
hypotheses or methods
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Students will demonstrate an awareness,
understanding and appreciation of the
interconnectedness of the social and cultural
dimensions within and across local, regional,
state, national, and global communities
Assessed each semester using ETS Proficiency
Profile starting in Spring 2012 which assesses
humanities and social sciences within the
content of the reading and critical thinking
questions
STAGE starting in Fall 2012
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Students will demonstrate information
literacy by knowing how and where to search
for information and how to apply the
information once found
Assessed Spring 2012 using Madison
Assessments
◦ Determination of the nature and extent of the
information needed
◦ Access needed information effectively and
efficiently
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Students will demonstrate personal
development by displaying the ability to set
goals to form personal, academic, and
vocational development.
STAGE starting in Fall 2012
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Students will be able to apply mathematical
tools to the solution of complex problems
Assessed each semester using ETS Proficiency
Profile starting in Spring 2012
Madison Assessment Spring 2009
◦ Recognizing and interpreting mathematical terms
◦ Reading and interpreting tables and graphs
◦ Evaluating formulas
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Students will be able to understand the
process of planning, executing and
interpreting an experiment following the
tenets of the scientific method
Assessed Spring 2011 using Madison
Assessments
◦ Generating an empirically evidenced and logical
argument
◦ Distinguishing a scientific argument from a nonscientific argument
General Education Goal
Last Assessment
Date
Assessment Instrument
Next Assessment
Communication
- Writing & Reading
-Oral
Spring 2012
Spring 2007
ETS Proficiency Profile
Madison Assessments (VCCS)
Reading and Writing (ETS)
STAGE Fall 2012
VCCS Writing 201016
Critical Thinking
Spring 2012
ETS Proficiency Profile
VCCS Critical Thinking
ETS - Fall 2012
VCCS Critical Thinking 2013-14
Cultural and Social
Understanding
Spring 2012
ETS Proficiency Profile
STAGE
ETS and STAGE
Fall 2012
Information Literacy
Spring 2012
Madison Assessments (VCCS)
TBD
STAGE
STAGE
Fall 2012
Personal Development
Quantitative Reasoning
Spring 2012
ETS Proficiency Profile
Madison Assessment (VCCS)
ETS Fall 2012
VCCS 2014-15
Scientific Reasoning
Spring 2011
Madison Assessment (VCCS)
TBD
110.7
111.2
Critical Thinking
Reading
116.7
117.3
Writing
113.0
114.1
Math
111.7
112.8
National Norms for Associate Degree
Students Participating in ETS Proficiency
Profile
114.3
114.9
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
112.5
113.1
Humanities
114.0
115.7
CVCC Avearges (N=209)
438.7
442.2
Total
0.0
100.0
200.0
300.0
400.0
500.0
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NEW FOR FALL – Requirement for graduates
to take the assessment will be enforced
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