Student Outcome Objectives
For Use in Course Embedded Assessment

Category 1 — Composition

The student will demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills (including cognition, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) in producing unified, coherent papers.
The student will demonstrate the ability to vary rhetorical strategies in conjunction with varying purposes, audiences, and content.
The student will demonstrate the ability to incorporate source material into writing.
The student will demonstrate the ability to structure essays coherently.
The student will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of standard English usage with respect to grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

The student will demonstrate proficiency in the use of mathematics and/or statistics to structure their understanding of and investigate questions in the world around them.
The student will demonstrate proficiency in treating mathematical and/or statistical content at an appropriate level.
The student will demonstrate competence in the use of numerical, graphical, and algebraic representations.
The student will demonstrate the ability to interpret data, analyze graphical information, and communicate solutions in written and oral form.
The student will demonstrate proficiency in the use of mathematics and/or statistics to formulate and solve problems.
The student will demonstrate proficiency in using technology such as handheld calculators an computers to support their use of mathematics and/or statistics.

The student will develop skill, including techniques and strategies in a physical activity (psychomotor domain).
The student will develop knowledge of skill and strategy; knowledge necessary for enhancing personal health, fitness, and well-being; and knowledge of developmentally appropriate, ethical, and healthy patterns of participation (cognitive domain).
The student will develop, through physical activity, self-confidence and team values in an affective environment (affective domain).

Students will be aware of ways in which communicative skills in a foreign language enhance their lives. They will employ speaking, aural comprehension, reading, and writing skills in the target language while engaging in conversations on topics of general personal interest, asking and answering informational questions, and exchanging opinions.
As part of their facility with the target language, students will demonstrate their awareness of some of the customs, traditions, and cultural achievements of the people whose language they are studying.
As part of their facility with the target language, students will demonstrate the analytical thinking necessary to use a linguistic system different from their own.

The student will understand aesthetic and intellectual achievements in art, music, literature, history, or philosophy.
The student will understand the intellectual, cultural, and historical framework of these disciplines.
The student will know various contributions these disciplines make to the enhancement of our lives.
The student will demonstrate abilities in analytic thought, the use of language, aesthetic appreciation, or research techniques.

The student will understand the framework, world view, or philosophical assumptions of the discipline.
The student will understand the methods and research skills used by the discipline.
The student will understand the principles and theories of the discipline.
The student will demonstrate familiarity with current problems (when appropriate).

The student will understand the basic principles of the discipline including relationship and application to other areas.
The student will discuss and demonstrate how scientists solve problems in the discipline.
The student will discuss and demonstrate attitudes important to the scientific community such as cause-effect relationships, making conclusions from evidence, use of reductionism to analyze problems and importance of resynthesis of facts to understand the total situation.
The student will know the historical perspective of the discipline.
The student will demonstrate ability in critical thinking.
Laboratories
The student will collect, organize and interpret data.
The student will understand some of the quantitative methods needed to interpret data.
The student will demonstrate skills in observation.

The student will understand the interrelation of theory, issues and knowledge, including historical frameworks and methodology of relevant disciplines.
The student will demonstrate critical and independent thought.
The student will demonstrate skills in oral and written expression.
The student will demonstrate proficiency in analysis and reporting of research.
The student will demonstrate a sense of cultural, multicultural, or intercultural identity.
The student will demonstrate the ability to integrate the perspectives of multiple disciplines.