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North Central Missouri College has adopted Missouri state’s eight General Education goals. State-level curricular goals and student competencies fall into two categories: academic skills and knowledge.
As an additional part of the goal-setting process, the College is committed to the Missouri’s Curriculum Alignment Initiative (CAI) and has integrated the exit level competencies into student learning outcomes in college-level courses meeting the General Education requisite. Missouri Department of Higher Education - Initiatives
Assessment of General Education Goals and Competencies
General Education Rationale
North Central Missouri College values General Education and has chosen to address the goals using the distribution model through the implementation of traditional courses. The faculty oversees General Education in curriculum and other opportunities and, with administrative input, assesses its effectiveness through exit tests and some imbedded assessments. However, the current process is not comprehensive since it includes only exit tests and some course-imbedded assessments. Additionally, Humanities and Fine Arts courses are predominantly taught by ever-changing, adjunct instructors and a current, plan for this goal is needed. In addition to these challenges, no individual faculty member is identified as the primary, responsible party for each of the eight goals, therefore they are not consistently assessed according to the published rotation.
General Education Rotation Schedule
Humanities and Fine Arts (spring, 2012)
Communications (spring, 2013)
Life and Physical Sciences (fall, 2013)
Higher Order Thinking (spring, 2014)
Managing Information (spring, 2014)
Social & Behavioral Sciences (fall, 2014)
Mathematics (fall, 2014)
General Education Assessment Loop
Currently, a team is exploring the possible employment of a computerized assessment management system in order to expand on existing practices to broaden the measurement of students’ General Education experience using student artifacts and common scoring guides (rubrics) across multiple courses.