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Student Learning Outcomes Assessment and the Disciplinary Accrediting Organizations

Valerie Whittlesey

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Surveys the evaluative criteria for all of the disciplinary agencies that accredit at the bachelor's level. Agencies' function of requiring programs to articulate student learning outcomes; Conclusion that these agencies do provide information to assist programs with their assessment plans and processes; Finding that many accreditors give examples of either direct assessment methods or a combination of direct and indirect assessment methods for assessing student learning.

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Surveys the evaluative criteria for all of the disciplinary agencies that accredit at the bachelor's level. Agencies' function of requiring programs to articulate student learning outcomes; Conclusion that these agencies do provide information to assist programs with their assessment plans and processes; Finding that many accreditors give examples of either direct assessment methods or a combination of direct and indirect assessment methods for assessing student learning.

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Surveys the evaluative criteria for all of the disciplinary agencies that accredit at the bachelor's level. Agencies' function of requiring programs to articulate student learning outcomes; Conclusion that these agencies do provide information to assist programs with their assessment plans and processes; Finding that many accreditors give examples of either direct assessment methods or a combination of direct and indirect assessment methods for assessing student learning.

Key concepts: Discipline, Engineering ethics, Psychology, Pedagogy, Mathematics education, Sociology, Engineering, Social science

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