Enhanced General Education

USF Gen Ed Faculty Assessment Resources

Assessment Implementation

USF's Enhanced General Education assessment is intended to be efficient to implement. Every faculty member teaching a general education course must have students upload their approved General Education Assignment (GEA) into Canvas. The faculty member must use the appropriate standardized General Education Outcomes that correspond to the enhanced skill(s) they have chosen to embed in their course (i.e., Creative Thinking, Information & Data Literacy, Cultural Competence, Civic Engagement, Experiential Learning, Qualitative Reasoning). Faculty will also need to include the standardized outcomes for their chosen Critical Skill Domains (i.e., Communication, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving). Faculty are required to score a random 10% of their students. 

A pdf walk-through of the process with screen shots can be found .

**Reminder: you are only scoring one of the GEA's with the standardized outcomes. 

Randomization Resources

There are a variety of ways to choose the random 10% of students to score using the General Education Outcomes. Below are two suggestions:

  1. Using the (from Random.org), input "1" as your minimum and the total number of students in your course as the maximum. After clicking "Get Sequence" you will receive a list of numbers in random order. Take the first 10% of that list as the students you should score. You can then take students in the alphabetical order from the grade book, and score the students from your random list. So, for example, if your list is "25, 33, 2, 7" you would be scoring the 25th student in your grade book, the 33rd, the 2nd, and the 7th.
  2.  If you are an Excel user, can help you sort your grade book randomly (the link takes you to an external site).