A concern about the costs of many of these proposals. A general support for increased flexibility, with caveats for how it will affect workload. Mixed feelings about newer pedagogies, with some groups strongly supporting more active and student-centered forms of learning, and some reacting with skepticism to these proposals. It was agreed that credits reflect that a student learned a certain amount of material, and that the grade reflect how well the material was learned. The group concluded that time is well spent in the classroom.
Assessment needs to be a continuous process.
Education provides a necessary structure- demonstrated learning just provides a way to get out of courses. Utilize extra-class measures, such as research papers, senior theses, competency exams over multiple areas. Formative assessment is as important, if not more important, than summative assessment, and should be used to check the measures and objectives a department sets for itself. As a system, we have a wide diversity of students, from the traditional 18-23 year old's and to the 35 year old who might be returning after raising a family or working for a number of years. We are not talking about testing out of a whole degree program.