Resources for Teaching and Learning
College-wide Abilities with Measurable Indicators
Responsibility
Students will develop the ability to recognize, understand and accept ownership for their learning by self-assessing,
demonstrating, and evaluating behaviors that support the learning situation.
The following are measurable indicators
of responsibility:
- Set and recognize priorities
- Communicate needs and make decisions
- Make and follow through on commitments
- Demonstrate respect for self and others
- Understand work ethic
- Make ethical decisions
- Work independently as well as cooperatively to develop an awareness and sense of responsibility to the larger community
- Recognize academic and personal obstacles to learning and have strategies to overcome them
Communications (Oral and Written)
Students will demonstrate the ability to create meaning between themselves and their audience; learn to listen, read,
speak, and write effectively using graphics, electronic media, computers and quantified data.
The following are
measurable indicators of communication:
- Read and listen analytically with understanding and openness toward another point of view
- Write and speak clearly, accurately, and fluently with a sense of continuity
- Organize information to develop and support a main idea
- Analyze information and persuade an audience
- Receive, analyze, and present information through visual media
- Demonstrate skill in gathering information from and within a specific field
- Collect and organize information about a topic through observation, library or applied laboratory research
- Evaluate information on the basis of its origin, viewpoint, currency, relevance, and completeness
- Analyze, interpret, and synthesize information
Problem Solving
Students will be able to access, evaluate, and apply information from a variety of sources and in a variety of contexts.
The following are measurable indicators of problem solving:
- Formulate questions
- Recognize the need for both quantitative and qualitative information
- Recognize that accurate and complete information is the basis for effective decision-making
- Identify available technologies and analytical methods
- Analyze information, critically recognizing viable solutions
- Understand connections and apply knowledge among various disciplines
- Use one's own creativity to generate diverse possible solutions (recognizing that making errors is part of the process)
- Formulate reasoned solutions and interpret them to others
- Evaluate and test solutions for validity and appropriateness
Global Awareness
Students will demonstrate an awareness and appreciation of the world: its scientific complexity, its social diversity,
and its artistic variety. The following are measurable indicators of global awareness:
- Demonstrate understanding and openness toward another point of view
- Use intercultural and/or international perspectives
- Observe, listen and respond appropriately
- Make justifiable inferences
- Recognize bias, stereotyping, and manipulation
- Analyze, interpret, and synthesize information
- Evaluate information on the basis of its origin, viewpoint, relevance and completeness