UW-Stout
General Education Assessment Form
Spring Semester, 2008
Thank you for participating in this year’s assessment of general education courses. We hope you will find
the process useful in assessing and improving your pedagogy and of benefit to your students.
If you have questions, please refer to the following website http://www.uwstout.edu/provost/gened/ , or feel
free to contact Alan Block, Chair of the General Education Committee at blocka@uwstout.edu or 2322496.
Please respond to the following questions. Upon completion, please save and rename the
document with your course number, and email as an attachment to Janice Coker at
cokerj@uwstout.edu by June 30, 2008.
1. DEPARTMENT:
2. GENERAL EDUCATION CATEGORY:
3. COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE:
4. NUMBER OF SECTIONS INCLUDED IN THIS ASSESSMENT:
5. GENERAL EDUCATION OBJECTIVES:
List the general education objectives (up to 4) most addressed in this course from the
table at the end of this document. A list of the twelve GE objectives is provided at the end
of this document for your reference.
6. METHODOLOGY:
For each objective listed above, briefly explain how you assess student learning to
determine that the objective(s) are being met. For each objective, list how many students
participated in the assessment and the total number of students taking the course, e.g., 50
out of 100.
7. RESULTS:
Briefly summarize the results of your assessment. Include an analysis of your results
where appropriate, e.g., statistical analysis, this year compared to previous years.
8. REFLECTION:
a. Comment on any improvements you might make in the assessment instrument or
the methodology of assessment.
b. Briefly describe how your current assessment reflects your ongoing practice of
refining this course and improving student learning.
9. OTHER COMMENTS AND/OR SUGGESTIONS:
Please list any comments and/or suggestions you may have.
UW-Stout General Education Objectives:
1. Develop effective reading, writing, speaking and listening skills and be able to utilize
contemporary information and communications systems.
2. Formulate logical and mathematical reasoning related to various branches of
knowledge.
3. Acquire knowledge and skills essential to one's physical and mental well being.
4. Think creatively, analyze critically, synthesize clearly and act responsibly.
5. Develop a critically examined value system and a personal code of ethics.
6. Recognize and appreciate the collective heritage, ideas and values of a multicultural
world and demonstrate sensitivity to sociocultural diversity and the interdependence
of groups in a global society.
7. Understand and appreciate the creativity and imagination expressed in the fine and
performing arts to provide a basis for lifelong aesthetic experience.
8. Comprehend and value the natural and physical sciences and their impacts on society.
9. Recognize and appreciate the inter-relationship between the ideological, sociological
and technological adaptive systems and their impact on the human experience and the
environment.
10. Understand the development and consequences of the behavior of individuals, groups
and institutions in the context of major social, economic and political forces.
11. Cultivate a historical and political consciousness.
12. Recognize the ongoing and connected nature of human experience over the course of
a lifetime.