Fall 2011 Assessments
The following assessment measures should be integrated into your Eng 100 and Eng 200 course
requirements for Fall 2011.
NOTE: Sections to be sampled will be determined by GEWC in early fall 2011
Eng 100
Students will produce an essay shaped by a controlling claim that integrates
matter from a range of credible sources (1c, 2a)—To be weighted no less than 10%
and no more than 30% of the final grade.
Eng 100 Final Exam (1c)—to be administered during the finals period (and
possibly a reading comprehension part the week before on Blackboard*)—To be
weighted 10% of the final grade.
Timed library research quiz (2a)—To be administered on Blackboard during the
three weeks before Thanksgiving.—To be weighted 5% of the final grade.
Eng 200
Specialized library research quiz and research/discussion survey (2a, 2c)—To be
administered on Blackboard during the three weeks before Thanksgiving.
The library quiz should be 5% of the final grade and the survey should be assigned
completion credit.
Students will engage in class discussion of multiple texts on a single cultural issue
(2c)—To be taken note of at instructor’s discretion, but does not require direct
contribution to final course grade.
Students will write an analytical essay that connects multiple texts across
disciplines (2c).—To be weighted no less than 10% of the final grade.
*At its 10 March 2011 meeting, the GEWC adopted the existing Rakove writing prompt as the Eng
100 final exam writing prompt in perpetuity. Keeping our schedule of rotating student learner
outcomes (SLO) in mind, a reading comprehension quiz is be administered every other semester
only in Eng 100. The reading comprehension exam is not scheduled for fall according to our SLO
rotation, but the GEWC this fall may wish to simplify the Eng 100 final exam to include both the
reading comprehension quiz and Rakove prompt every semester in perpetuity starting in
December 2011. My apologies for the ambiguity here, but mandating the reading comprehension
quiz in both semesters conflicts with our approved course proposals, and a change requires action
by the GEWC.—M.G.