Graduate Attributes Assessment Program

What is it about?

In this paper, we address the difficult issue of assessing Graduate Attributes (GAs). We developed a formative model of assessment centered on students and instructor interaction with course content. The paper starts by laying the theoretical groundwork on which this novel GA assessment tool is based, i.e. competency-based education, assessment theory and GA assessment. It follows with a description of the online assessment tool for GAs that was developed in the course of this project. The online assessment tool for GAs targets three types of stakeholders: (a) students, who self-assess in terms of GAs; (b) instructors, who use the tool to define the extent to which each GA should be inculcated in their course; and (c) administrators, who receive aggregate reports based on the data gathered by the system for high-level analysis and decision-making.

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