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Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Assessment<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

UCORE’s Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT]<\/a> courses provide a common foundational first-year experience that prepares students to understand the world around them using historical approaches, sources, and modes of communication. [ROOT] courses advance designator student learning outcomes associated with five of the WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals<\/a> (Critical Thinking<\/strong>, Information Literacy<\/strong>, Written Communication<\/strong>, Diversity<\/strong>, and Integrative Learning<\/strong>) by asking students to explore and understand the historical and global roots of various issues facing the world today. Incoming first-year students complete HISTORY 105 to satisfy [ROOT], while HISTORY 305 is intended for transfer students that need to fulfill the [ROOT] requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assessment<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Assessment is intended to provide [ROOT] faculty with information for program improvement, gauge student learning on [ROOT] designator learning outcomes for UCORE general education assessment, and provide evidence of UCORE\u2019s contribution towards advancing the WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals. Each semester, [ROOT] instructors are asked to submit a short report providing an assessment of student achievement of [ROOT] designator learning outcomes in their course (direct measure, using faculty expert judgement). The Roots of Contemporary Issues program<\/a>, in collaboration with the Office of Assessment for Curricular Effectiveness (ACE)<\/a>, coordinates the assessment, reporting, and data analysis for [ROOT] Assessment reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: [ROOT] Assessment previously included the Final Papers Assessment (aligned with Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, and Integrative Learning) and the Diversity & Inequality Papers Assessment (aligned with Diversity and Written Communication), where [ROOT] faculty evaluated a random sample of student’s papers from all campuses using a faculty-developed rubric. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence of Student Learning<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Results of Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Assessment are compiled to provide a summary of student achievement of [ROOT] designator learning outcomes, as well as provide evidence of UCORE\u2019s contribution towards advancing the WSU Undergraduate Learning Goals. Click on the links below to explore recent results of Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Assessment. For more summaries of results from Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Assessment, see Results of [ROOT] Assessment<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n