Institute on General Education

2009 Institute Materials

Alphabetical by presenter's name - all files are PDFs unless otherwise indicated. Note that some materials cannot be made available due to copyright restriction.

Charles Blaich

• Research Findings for Deepening Learning
• High-Impact Practices and Experiences from the Wabash National Study
  

J. Herman Blake

• Retention and Graduation of Undergraduate Students: A Comprehensive Approach
• Creating and Sustaining Community in Academia

Scott Evenbeck

• Goals for General Education
• Program Assessment and Intentional Learning

Brett Eynon

• Wade in the Water: From Classroom Change to Institutional Transformation
• LaGuardia Principles of Effective Practice
• Can we Make the Connection? ePortfolio, Assessment & Integrative Learning
• E-Portfolios at 2.0 - Surveying the Field (web link)

Ann Ferren

• Where do we start? Models of General Education
• What's in it for me? Politics and Process of Curricular Change (PowerPoint)

Paul Gaston

• Curriculum-and Beyond Curriculum or Rolling on the
  General Education River (PowerPoint)
• Seeking Effective Implementation Of a Curricular Proposal (PowerPoint)

Lee Knefelkamp

• Institutional Capacity Building for Making Excellence Inclusive

Ned Laff

• Teachable Moments: Advising as Liberal Learning (Web link)

Devorah Lieberman

• Engaging and Advancing an Institutional Initiative (PowerPoint)
• Addressing Personal and Social Responsibility (PowerPoint)

Peggy Maki

• The Interrelationship among Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (PowerPoint)
• Handouts packet
• Planning Assessment Backwards (PowerPoint)
• A Case of Changing Pedagogy, Policies, and Faculty Development
• Direct and Indirect Methods

Terrel Rhodes

• Assessment Tools for General Education Outcomes
• Student Transfer: Learning Transfer (PowerPoint)

Carol Geary Schneider

• Helping Students Connect: General Education, Liberal Education, and Intentional Practice Across the Curriculum (PowerPoint)
• Helping Students Connect handout
• Connecting General Education and the Major

Barbara Wright

• Approaches, Reproaches: The Joy of Methods (PowerPoint)
• Direct Assessment Methods -- A Close-up Look
• Indirect Assessment Methods -- A Close-up Look
• GE, Assessment, and Capacity: Look before You Leap (LEAP) (PowerPoint)
• WASC Educational Effectiveness Framework (Web Link)
• WASC rubrics (Web Links)
  1. Student Learning Outcomes
  2. Portfolios
  3. Capstones
  4. General Education
  5. Program review