General Education Working Group

The General Education Working Group is a team of faculty and administrators charged with developing and implementing general education assessment practices for the institution. Using rubrics that have been internally developed for each general education outcome at the college, the group facilitates the collection of student artifacts across curricula, scores them in a four-week session in June, and helps to prepare a report to the campus community on the status of general education, making recommendations for better implementation of assessment practices and procedures and for improvement of student outcomes.

Charge

The evaluation of student learning in the General Education curriculum will be the responsibility of the General Education Working Group, formerly the General Education Task Force. The committee will be a body consisting of representatives from several academic departments of the college. In collaboration with the Director of Policy Analysis for General Education and Student Learning Outcomes, the committee shall:

Recommend policies and procedures for General Education assessment to the Academic Senate
Facilitate:

The process by which General Education student artifacts are collected and processed
The scoring of student artifacts
The analysis of assessment data and report writing
The dissemination of assessment findings, including reporting to the Academic Senate

When appropriate, identify, develop, and utilize institutional level measures (e.g., Community College Survey of Student Engagement) in concert with the Institutional Effectiveness and Institutional Research offices to complement Queensborough General Education assessment data
Develop and review annually the General Education Handbook, including the General Education assessment protocol
When appropriate, collaborate with the Senate Committee on Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

Note: The Director of Policy Analysis for General Education and Student Learning Outcomes will support the committee by:

Collecting student artifacts and overseeing the processing of student artifacts
Overseeing the scoring of student artifacts
Conducting the analysis of assessment data
Providing feedback memos to participating faculty members
Drafting an aggregate report of the assessment results

Membership:

Facilitated by the Director of Policy Analysis for General Education and Student Learning Outcomes, the working group members include the Dean for Institutional Effectiveness, a faculty representative from each academic department recommended by the department chair, and one from the Senate Assessment Committee.

Faculty Membership 2018-19

Art and Design – Kebedech Tekleab
Biological Sciences and Geology – Amos Orlofsky
Business – Virginia Masterson
Engineering Technology – Craig Weber
English –Tanya Zhelezcheva
Foreign Languages and Literatures – Monica Rossi-Miller
Health, Physical Education and Dance – Gene Desepoli
History – Aithne Biallo-Padin
Library – Richard Mako
Mathematics and Computer Science – Kostas Stroumbakis
Music – Neeraj Mehta
Nursing – Kathleen Pecinka
Physics – Paul Marchese
Social Sciences – Gabriel Lataianu
Speech Communication and Theatre Arts – Supriya Karudapuram
Academic Senate Assessment Committee representative: Changiz Alizadeh

Access the General Education Assessment reports and archive

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