Mission

GER Outcomes

Year One

Mentors/Leaders

Task Force

GER Subcommittee

Training and Resource

Models for Assessment

General Education Assessment Project

The State of Florida Department of Education has recommended that post-secondary institutions collect information regarding the efficacy of their respective general education programs.  The methodology used to collect this data has not been dictated by the legislature. Thus, the General Education Assessment (GEA) Task Force was assembled by the General Education Requirements Subcommittee of the College Curriculum Committee in order to achieve the following:

Florida Community College General Education Outcomes
This link provides a list of the Florida Community College General Education Philosophy, Knowledge Bases, Intellectual Competencies and Values.  You must scroll down to the GER section.

Year One
The task force has selected Communication as the first General Education area to be assessed. Click here for the task force's definition of communication.

College-wide Meetings for 2008-2009

• October 23, 2008

Click here for information and summaries related to the College-wide information

Florida Community College General Education Assessment Mentors/Leaders

• Patricia Bell, Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Youlanda Henry, Communications
• Bill Meisel, Mathematics
• Lourdes Norman, Natural Sciences
• Maria Oehler, Natural Sciences
• Joel Rappoport, Mathematics
• Wayne Singletary, Workforce representative
• John Wall, Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Andreia Thaxton, Humanities
• Christopher Twiggs, Communications
• Ron Wolf, Workforce

AAC&U Institute on General Education – Florida Community College Reports
The General Education Assessment Mentors individuals attended the AAC&U Institute on General Education in 2007. A second group of individuals attended the 2008 institute.

• Florida Community College report May 2007
• Florida Community College report June 2008

General Education Review Subcommittee

• Members

Presentations and Training Materials

• General Education Assessment College-wide Meeting Powerpoint - November 16, 2007
• Assessment 101 PowerPoint presentation – presented to the GER Subcommittee, April 19, 2007, by Deborah Morris, Lynne Crosby, and Wayne Singletary.
• Handouts from the meeting - A Comparison of Florida Community College GER, State General Education Learning Outcomes, and 21st Century Learning Outcomes
• General Education Assessment Models - narrated PowerPoint and more!

Other Florida Community College Assessment Resources

• Classroom Assessment
• Academic Learning Compacts (ALCs)
  

Web Resources

• Florida Community Colleges’ General Education Outcomes Categories as developed by the State Learning Outcomes Task Force
• Florida Community Colleges’ Principles of Assessment as developed by the State Learning Outcomes
• AAHE 9 principles of good practice of assessing student learning
• League for Innovation in the Community College, Learning Outcomes Project
• Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment
• AAC&U, Assessment Resources
• California Assessment Institute
• Assessment in Higher Education (Australia)
  
• Other web resources