– Connect with a local CATS team member to identify an assignment you already use (or to generate a new assignment) that will produce student samples you can score.

– Share your scores with the CATS.

– Reflect, Revise, & Enhance — Close the loop & learn from your data and that data of others.

Basic Overview of the Assessment Process

A CATS member will contact you to explain your role. You’ll use a common rubric, provided by the CATS, that is used across several different courses and disciplines, to assess one of your own class assignments. You will collect information on a learning outcome associated with a skill / competency, and you’ll submit that data to the CATS.

Your assessment data will be aggregated with the data from other instructors to help provide a picture of student achievement of the learning outcomes. The CATS will use this data to facilitate conversations focused on continuous improvement.

This process helps ensure that we are helping students achieve the objectives of general education and the Associate of Arts at Broward College.

Add the General Education Skills / Competencies & Learning Outcomes to Your Syllabus

Let students know that you teach a Gen Ed course. Take a moment to review the skills / competencies, and ask how they will use them in their future studies and careers.

General education courses are grouped into six categories. The categories focus on particular skills / competencies, though it is likely that nearly all of the skill / competencies are addressed in most general education courses. Here is the official alignment: