Assessment
Assessing student learning is critical to the mission of the college and reflects the value placed on excellence in teaching and learning. Through a variety of assessment practices, academic divisions and student support units work together to foster continuous improvement and promote a comprehensive approach to enhancing the student experience at Rose State College
To learn more about our assessment practices, please follow the links provided
Assessment Plan
Types of Assessments
Student Learning
The assessment of student learning focuses on the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and habits of mind developed through the educational process. These skills are assessed at various levels to ensure the quality of our courses, programs, and the institution as a whole.
Course Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes reflect what the student gains or develops as a result of completing a specific course. Course learning outcomes are clearly stated in all course syllabi.
Program Learning Outcomes
Program Learning Outcomes present the skills, competencies, and knowledge that students attain by completing a specific degree. Program-level outcomes are listed with each degree sheet in the college catalog.
Institutional Learning Outcomes
Institutional Learning Outcomes represent core educational competencies and habits that transcend the immediacy of the students’ collegiate experience and provide them with the ability to pursue, review, and apply knowledge throughout their lives. To learn more about ILOs, please follow the link provided.
Cocurricular Assessment
In addition to the learning opportunities within a classroom setting, cocurricular programs such as student government and other student activities aim to promote further personal development and foster lifelong learning. Cocurricular events are activities, programs, service opportunities, or learning experiences that support and enhance the mission of the institution, course, program, or institutional learning outcomes, and the overall educational experiences at Rose State College.
Student Satisfaction
Rose State College recognizes the role of personal development in effective teaching and learning and strives to create a learning environment that addresses the needs of a diverse student population. This includes providing appropriate services and facilities to address the physical, emotional, and social needs of the entire college community. As part of Rose State College’s assessment plan, a student satisfaction survey is conducted annually.
General Education Outcomes
The general education requirements consist of designated courses which, as a total group, focus on emotional, intellectual, physical, and social aspects of learning and development. These courses are intended to provide a base from which a student may function efficiently in a contemporary, multi-cultural environment. Faculty at Rose State College have adopted core proficiencies of the general education curriculum which they have designated as critical to the success of the student.
One General Education Outcome is assessed each academic year during the spring semester. Instruments developed by the College Assessment Committee are distributed to the RSC student population to allow for uniform evaluation of student responses and to provide reliable data. Faculty use this data to revise practices or procedures as appropriate in response to the assessment results.
Outcome 1: Effective Written Communication
Outcome 1: Effective Written Communication includes the ability to compose a quality written document on a collegiate level. This includes the following characteristics:
- Development of a Central Idea
- Diction
- Organization
- Support
- Sentence Structure
- Grammar and Mechanics
Outcome 2: Quantitative Reasoning
Outcome 2: Quantitative Reasoning refers to the ability to analyze information when presented either numerically, or in formulas, graphs, or tables, and to critically evaluate and interpret that information for solving problems, making predictions, or drawing conclusions.
Students who demonstrate quantitative reasoning skills will be able to:
- Identify relevant mathematical information, and select appropriate methods to answer questions of a numerical nature.
- Express and/or evaluate quantitative relationships using graphs, charts, or formulas.
- Evaluate representations and inferences that are based on quantitative information, and recognize questionable values or assertions.
Outcome 3: Diversity Awareness
Outcome 3: Diversity Awareness is a mindset characterized by one’s willingness to work toward a climate of mutual respect and acceptance of individual differences that include race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical and cognitive abilities, spiritual beliefs, political beliefs, and other ideologies.
Objectives:
- Evaluate the effect that Rose State College’s classes, events, workshops, and programs have had in heightening awareness, knowledge, or appreciation of people who represent a different race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, spiritual belief, or political belief or ideology.
- Recognize one’s own comfort level when relating to people of various backgrounds and identify resources on campus that might help to raise that comfort level.
- Determine how students’ differences affect their relationships with others at Rose State College.
- Promote an inclusive, open-minded culture that embraces diversity.
- Practice respect for people with qualities and experiences different from one’s own.
- Appraise the value of working cooperatively with people from various backgrounds and life experiences.
- Analyze one’s own perception of discrimination on campus, in the local community, and on the national level.
Results
Annual Assessment Reports
Student Satisfaction/Facilities Reports
Student Satisfaction/Services Reports
Educational Demographics
Graduate Surveys
Cocurricular Assessment
Resources
Resources for Faculty
CART The Curriculum and Assessment Review Team is a faculty support service created to establish and maintain consistent standards for curriculum development and assessment processes at Rose State College.
The CART team can assist faculty and program coordinators in areas such as…
articulation of student learning outcomes for courses and programs
curriculum development and proposals
- aligning assessments for student learning at the course and program level
providing support for meaningful and efficient program reviews
email: ([email protected])
- Glossary of Assessment Terms
- Applying Bloom’s Taxonomy (PDF)
- Curriculum Handbook
Program Review
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2017
- 2017 Biology (PDF)
- 2017 Chemistry (PDF)
- 2017 CIT (PDF)
- 2017 Criminal Justice (PDF)
- 2017 FSCD (PDF)
- 2017 History (PDF)
- 2017 HPER (PDF)
- 2017 Mathematics (PDF)
- 2017 Modern Languages (PDF)
- 2017 MULT (PDF)
- 2017 Physics (PDF)
- 2017 Political Science (PDF)
- 2017 PreMed (PDF)
- 2017 Pre-pharmacy (PDF)
- 2017 Pre-Professional Health (PDF)
- 2017 Social Sciences (PDF)
- 2017 Sociology (PDF)
- 2017 TSM (PDF)