Georgia State University  

General Education Goals
(Approved by the University Senate on February 13, 2004)

  Pilot Plans Summer 2004 Pilot Results 2004 and Assessment Plans 04-05 Assessment Results 04-05 Assessment Results after 2005 are on WEAVEonline
Goal I.  Communication
a. Students communicate effectively using appropriate writing conventions and formats.

 
b. Students communicate effectively using appropriate oral or signed conventions and formats.

 
Goal II. Collaboration
Students participate effectively in collaborative activities.

 
Goal III. Critical Thinking-Natural Sciences
Students formulate appropriate questions for research.
Students effectively collect appropriate evidence.
Students appropriately evaluate claims, arguments, evidence and hypotheses.
Students use the results of analysis to appropriately construct new arguments and formulate new questions.

 
Goal III. Critical Thinking--Humanities & Social Sciences  

 
Goal IV.  Contemporary Issues
Students effectively analyze contemporary issues within the context of diverse disciplinary perspectives.
Students effectively analyze contemporary multicultural, global, and international questions.

 
Goal V.  Quantitative Skills
Students effectively perform arithmetic operations, as well as reason and draw appropriate conclusions from numerical information.
Students effectively translate problem situations into symbolic representations and use those representations to solve problems.

 

 
Goal VI.  Technology 
Students effectively use computers and other technology appropriate to the discipline.

 
Summary    

 

Templates for General Education Learning Outcomes  Assessment Plans and Assessment Reports
 

Policies which govern assessing general education core student learning outcomes:

bulletPolicies of  the Georgia Board of Regents, and Georgia State University regarding General Education Learning Outcomes
bullet Policy for GSU General Education Outcome Procedures--2004
bullet Policy for establishing the General Education Assessment Committee for the Core
bulletMembers of the General Education Assessment Committee for the Core 2004-2006
bullet2005 Departmental Summary Data
bulletPolicy for having departments assess general education learning outcomes--2006
bulletMay 1, 2006 Assessment Report Format
bulletSummer 2006 Departmental Assessment Contacts
bullet2006 Departmental Summary Data
 

Minutes of meetings of the General Education Assessment Committee for the Core

bulletApril 9, 2004
bulletApril 30, 2004
bulletJune 7, 2004
bulletMarch 24, 2005
bulletAugust 11, 2005
bulletOctober 12, 2005
bulletNovember 28, 2005
bulletJanuary 24, 2006
bulletOctober 31, 2006

 

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GSU Office of Institutional Research website (GSU data from 2003--2005 National Survey of Student Engagement, 2003-2006 Surveys of Graduating Students, and access to Statware)

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