Student learning is also assessed “Across the Curriculum”. Assessment across the curriculum is an institutional assessment process, an “assessment of assessment” in that it establishes standards of performance for each skill and provides institution wide data on how well students are achieving the results we expect them to achieve.

The purpose is to assess the application and transfer of knowledge from disciplines where skills are learned to other courses in the curriculum.  Assessment “Across the Curriculum” helps students continue to develop each skill, to reinforce their learning and demonstrate proficiency in related disciplines. 

Departments identify by matrix where each lifelong skill is being assessed and at what level (is the skill being introduced, reinforced, or practiced). Assessment reports are analyzed from each area to verify to the degree all lifelong skills are being assessed and skill development.

Program assessment plans will be asked to assess a lifelong skill not typically taught in your area. For example, Speech may assess technology or aesthetic perception to measure student development of this skill in other parts of the curriculum.

Rubrics are used for scoring consistency. Faculty report results of these rubric-based assessments into a college-wide data base.  This allows us to measure student performance on each of the skills across the college. This process was started in 2006 and has a two-three year implementation cycle.

For more information, please refer to Assessment FAQ.