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Utilizing Assessment Results to Demonstrate the Case for Creativity-Focused Education
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Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel; Dana Scott – Assessment Update, 2025
Educational systems must equip students with skills to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments. Creativity is an essential skill for both success and resiliency in such an environment, but not all curricula explicitly prioritize creativity skills. Thomas Jefferson University's Creativity Core Curriculum has proactively…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Creativity, College Curriculum
Community College Strategies: Linking Course, Program, and Institutional Learning Outcomes--An Embedded Assessment Model
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Popovich, Paulette M.; Vierheller, Tim R. – Assessment Update, 2005
Faculty at The University of Akron Wayne College, the two-year regional branch campus of the University of Akron, developed and implemented a plan to assess student learning in 1997. The plan was based on an embedded outcomes model, linking course-level student learning outcomes to program outcomes for each of six technical associate degree…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Associate Degrees
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment and the Disciplinary Accrediting Organizations
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Whittlesey, Valerie – Assessment Update, 2005
Higher education is influenced significantly by regional and disciplinary accrediting organizations. Regional accrediting organizations accredit entire institutions, while disciplinary accreditors approve programs within those institutions. All accrediting organizations require institutions and programs to examine their educational effectiveness…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness