{"id":3642,"date":"2022-08-23T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T17:50:49","slug":"student-learning-at-the-senior-level-ay-2021-22-caps-assessment-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/2022\/08\/23\/student-learning-at-the-senior-level-ay-2021-22-caps-assessment-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Learning at the Senior-level: AY 2021-22 [CAPS] Assessment Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As reported in the\u00a0AY 2021-22 [CAPS] Assessment Reporting Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF)<\/a>, assessment results indicated that\u00a085% of students met or exceeded expectations at the graduating undergraduate level for\u00a0Critical & Creative Thinking<\/em><\/strong>. Additionally,\u00a083% of students met or exceeded expectations for\u00a0Written Communication<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0In courses where faculty members found enough elements to evaluate student learning on additional learning goals, instructors indicated that\u00a086% of the students met or exceeded expectations for\u00a0Oral Communication<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a091% for\u00a0Diversity<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In place since 2015, [CAPS] Assessment Reporting for UCORE is intended to gauge student learning on WSU\u2019s Undergraduate Learning Goals<\/a> at the near-graduation level. For AY 2021-22, the CAPS report form focused on Critical & Creative Thinking, Written Communication, Oral Communication (optional), and Diversity (optional). Note: The majority of undergraduate courses that had pivoted to distance delivery for AY 2020-21 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic returned to in-person instruction for AY 2021-22. While roughly 44% of fall 2021 and spring 2022 CAPS instructors indicated that there continued to be substantial impacts to student attendance\/engagement, course assignments, learning activities, and\/or instruction in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 89% of instructors indicated that they had confidence in their ability to assess student achievement of these WSU Learning Goals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 168 reports were submitted by 141 instructors, representing 85% of CAPS courses and 80% of students enrolled in CAPS courses in fall 2021 and spring 2022. In 72% of reports, instructors indicated that their students were primarily (>90%) seniors. Instructors indicated that their students were primarily (>90%) majors in 75% of reports. Approximately 84% of students enrolled in all CAPS courses in fall 2021 and spring 2022 were seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning Goals Demonstrated in [CAPS] Courses.\u00a0<\/strong>Established as part of WSU\u2019s general education curriculum (UCORE) beginning in 2012, Integrative Capstone [CAPS] courses bring opportunities for integration, application, and closure to the undergraduate experience. All [CAPS] courses require students to demonstrate: Critical & Creative Thinking, Information Literacy, Written Communication, and Integrative Learning. In addition, Non-Written Communication, Quantitative Reasoning, Scientific Literacy, and\/or Diversity may be included as appropriate to the discipline or course. In AY 2021-22, 72% of reports indicated that the course syllabus required students to demonstrate Oral Communication and 44% required students to demonstrate Diversity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For additional information, see [CAPS] Assessment for UCORE<\/a> or contact the Office of Assessment for Curricular Effectiveness<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported in the\u00a0AY 2021-22 [CAPS] Assessment Reporting Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF), assessment results indicated that\u00a085% of students met or exceeded expectations at the graduating undergraduate level for\u00a0Critical & Creative Thinking. Additionally,\u00a083% of students met or exceeded expectations for\u00a0Written Communication.\u00a0In courses where faculty members found enough elements to evaluate student learning on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[559,429,563,564,579],"tags":[583,595,596],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642"}],"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=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}