This assessment design provides a method of evaluating learning in all sociology courses without regard for the particular perspective or pedagogy of individual instructors.
Students demonstrate their sociological knowledge by writing answers to four questions.
Some faculty prefer to use it twice, once around mid-term and once in the final two weeks. A faculty member's comments provide students with valuable feedback on their sociological development. Displaying Sociological Imagination allows sociology faculty to assess the extent to which students collectively are learning material which the faculty considers important to a liberal arts education. The faculty believe that this assessment design and process is relatively free of testing errors. This stimuli should not have been previously used in the sociology courses and, with rare exception, should be new to each student.