{"id":1882,"date":"2017-09-08T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:40:09","slug":"assessing-student-learning-at-the-first-year-level-ay-2016-17-roots-of-contemporary-issues-root-final-papers-assessment-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/2017\/09\/08\/assessing-student-learning-at-the-first-year-level-ay-2016-17-roots-of-contemporary-issues-root-final-papers-assessment-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Student Learning at the First-Year Level: AY 2016-17 Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Final Papers Assessment Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the <a href=\"\/assessment\/documents\/2017\/09\/2016-17-rci-results-summary.pdf\">AY 2016-17 [ROOT] Final Papers Assessment Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF)<\/a>, assessment results indicated that, on average,\u00a0<strong>98% of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first-year<\/span> students partially met, met or exceeded expectations at the first-year undergraduate level at the end of their UCORE first-year experience [ROOT] course on rubric outcomes related to <em>Critical &amp; Creative Thinking<\/em><\/strong>. Additionally, <strong>98% partially met, met or exceeded expectations for outcomes related to <em>Information Literacy<\/em><\/strong> and <strong>98% for <em>written communication<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] courses are foundational first-year experience courses for UCORE. The courses introduce students to five of the seven university learning goals (Critical &amp; Creative Thinking, Information Literacy, Communication, Diversity, and Depth, Breadth &amp; Integration of Learning) by asking students to understand the historical and global roots of various issues facing the world today.<\/p>\n<p>The Roots of Contemporary Issues Final Papers Assessment Project is intended to provide [ROOT] faculty with information for program improvement, as well as gauge student learning on three of the WSU Learning Goals at the first-year level. Each academic year, beginning in AY 2012-13, [ROOT] faculty evaluate a random sample of students\u2019 final research papers from all campuses using a faculty-developed rubric. In AY 2016-17, this rubric asked whether in these final papers students demonstrated the following skills related to WSU\u2019s Learning Goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CRITICAL and CREATIVE THINKING:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>using evidence to support an argument<\/li>\n<li>developing historical context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INFORMATION LITERACY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>selecting sources appropriate to a research paper<\/li>\n<li>using sources in a way that suggests they understood the relationship between the nature of the source and the kinds of conclusions they could draw from it<\/li>\n<li>using a citation system that suggests they accurately referenced their evidence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>COMMUNICATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stating an argument<\/li>\n<li>including an organizational structure<\/li>\n<li>following written conventions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2018, [ROOT] faculty will expand these efforts using additional assignments as assessment artifacts. For additional information, see <a href=\"\/assessment\/key-assessments\/roots\/\">Roots of Contemporary Issues [ROOT] Assessment<\/a> or contact the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the AY 2016-17 [ROOT] Final Papers Assessment Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF), assessment results indicated that, on average,\u00a098% of first-year students partially met, met or exceeded expectations at the first-year undergraduate level at the end of their UCORE first-year experience [ROOT] course on rubric outcomes related to Critical &amp; Creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[560,429,563,564,578],"tags":[584,588,596],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}