Academic Affairs Office of the Provost
1201 S. State Street
Timme Center, CSS 310
Big Rapids, MI 49307
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