Assessment Methods by Outcome

The following assessments of student learning are also available for each outcome area

• Writing: Direct measure of student learning - portfolio assessment at all levels
  Indirect measure of student learning - Ferris student survey
• Speech: Direct measure - in progress (some experimentation with video portfolios)
  Indirect measure - Ferris student survey
• Reading: Indirect measure - Ferris student survey
• Quantitative Skills: Direct measure - locally developed tests for students entering and exiting courses
• Scientific Reasoning: Direct measure - experimentation with locally developed pre- and post-tests administered via WebCT
• Social Awareness: Direct measures - experimentation with locally developed multiple-choice test for entering and exiting students / plan to pilot a new assessment method in 2003-04
• Cultural Enrichment: Direct measures - experimentation with locally developed controlled essay questions
  Indirect measure - experimentation with survey to students entering and exiting Cultural Enrichment classes
• Global Consciousness: Direct measure - experimentation with locally developed test
• Race/Ethnicity/Gender: Measures - under development / some discussion of a pre- and post-test instrument - assessment instrument cannot be finalized and implemented until the appropriate courses are designated and the requirement itself is implemented