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Responding to Limited Learning

Responding to Limited Learning. Learning Outcomes, Assessment, and General Education. When Problems Are Solutions. Example of Duolingo Academically Adrift ’s methodology Academically Adrift ’s content. methodology. Focuses on First Two Years of College

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Responding to Limited Learning

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  1. Responding to Limited Learning Learning Outcomes, Assessment, and General Education

  2. When Problems Are Solutions • Example of Duolingo • Academically Adrift’s methodology • Academically Adrift’s content

  3. methodology • Focuses on First Two Years of College • Discipline-based Assessment vs. General Education Assessment • National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) • Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment across the Institutionby Peggy Maki • UMD’s General Education Learning Outcomes • Privileges the role of writing assignments • Other means of exercising and articulating critical thinking • SUGGESTION: Assign/Grade the writing; Assess the discipline specificity • Encourage discipline creativity; particularly in the HOW or WHY of writing

  4. Methodology • Systematic De-emphasis of Teaching (Who is teaching GE?) • Assumptions about tenure’s focus on research ignores adjuncts and grad students in GE classes • SUGGESTION: Invite prospective students and employees to engage with learning outcomes of institution and discipline/department

  5. Content • Teaching and Tenure Issue is Spot On: • SUGGESTION: Look to disciplines that articulate scholastic contributions in non-traditional means. Translate examples of “proof” for tenure to inform models of student and learning assessment • ATHE and other professional organizations • Addressing the Art of College Management: • Shaping Schedules, taming professors, and limited workload • SUGGESTION: Incorporate service requirements/reporting into all GE courses • Develop models similar to internship assessments • Incorporate outside class meetings • From Barr and Tagg: Avoiding Instruction Paradigm Impulse to Create Classes to Instruct Underprepared Students

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