چکیده (انگلیسی):

Our regional accrediting body, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, requires
outcome assessment of core liberal education outcomes. Because of this mandate, and our new
mission at the University to prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to
thrive and be engaged in a pluralistic, complex world, we have undertaken a project to develop
and assess core liberal education outcomes. This paper describes the planning and actions taken
to meet these new requirements in our engineering and technology programs. The college has
expanded outcome assessment by including five “intellectual and practical skills,” specifically,
critical and creative thinking, inquiry/analysis, problem-solving, and information literacy. VALUE
rubrics are being incorporated into the process to ascertain the best opportunities to measure
student achievement within the engineering and technology programs. An assessment framework
is presented and pilot results are discussed.