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Making Sense of the "Loose Baggy Monster": Assessing Learning in a General Education Program is a Whale of a Task
- The Journal of General Education
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 53, Number 1, 2004
- pp. 1-19
- 10.1353/jge.2004.0021
- Article
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Assessing common target outcome for a general education program is difficult in an undergraduate "cafeteria style" program because of the scope of courses and lack of uniformity in the students' choices, and the difficulties associated with tracking a large number of transfer students. The University of Central Florida used a course embedded assessment plan with Composition and College Algebra, assessing competencies learned in those courses.