This publication explains how the Alverno Faculty has designed and developed its assessment system. Association of American Colleges . Twelve principles for effective general education programs . This report was prepared by participants in AAC's Project on Strong Foundations for General Education. The report is divided into two parts, each part containing six principles which provide the foundation for general education.
Assessment plays a major role throughout the report.
Contemporary approaches to assessing student achievement of general education outcomes. Assessment in Practice. Good practice in assessment is taking place on hundreds of campuses across the country. Yet most accounts of this work go unreported or are widely dispersed, published in the literature of dozens of academic disciplines. Classroom assessment topics, for instance, include mathematics, foreign language, technology, and more.