General Education Assessment Plan and Reports

General Education Assessment Plan

UGA assesses two to three general education competencies per year on a rotating cycle as illustrated in Table 1 below.  We work with faculty in the subject areas to identify courses and student work to be collected as artifacts.  Collected artifacts are then scored by trained UGA faculty evaluators against the corresponding AAC&U VALUE Rubrics.    

Each assessment cycle consists of two rounds of data collection.  Round 1 of artifact collection focuses on student work primarily from 1000- and 2000-level courses.  Round 2 of artifact collection focuses on student work from primarily 4000-level courses, allowing us to make comparisons and observe growth in students' (aggregate) performance in introductory general education coursework and in more advanced coursework. 

Table 1.  

 

Fall 2019 

Spring 2020 

Fall 2020 

Spring 2021 

Fall 2021 

Spring 2022 

Written Communication 

Round 1 

 

Round 2 

 

Round 1 

 

Quantitative Reasoning 

Round 1 

 

Round 2 

 

Round 1 

 

Oral Communication 

 

Round 1 

 

Round 2 

 

Round 1 

Critical Thinking 

 

Round 1 

 

Round 2 

 

Round 1 

Moral Reasoning* 

 

 

Round 1a 

Round 1b 

Round 2a 

Round 2b 

 

General Education Assessment Reports

The following reports offer data from each completed round of direct assessment per competency. Additional full reports forthcoming. See Archives section for additional general education assessment reports.