Appendix 7: Educational Effectiveness Indicators

 

Educational Effectiveness Indicators

Data Instrument/Source

Data

EEI 1: 75% of students will be able to recognize theologically or biblically informed rhetorical elements appearing in non-theological contexts.

Summative GE exam constructed by the GE Committee

 

 

EEI 2: 75 % of students will be able to articulate a personal spiritual position and place it within a spectrum of Christian traditions.

GE Holistic exam constructed by the GE Committee

 

EEI 3: Majors from 75% of the academic departments will score at or above the summative competence benchmark set by the department.

Departmental assessment data Assessment Committee

 

EEI 4:  75% of students will be able to interrogate an issue from at least three different disciplinary perspectives.

Summative GE exam written by the GE Committee

 

EEI 5: 75% of students will  be able to organize ideas to support a position (either in writing or orally) on summative GE exam

GE holistic writing exam constructed by the GE Committee

 

EEI 6: 75% of students will be able to present objections to their own position as logical as shown on a summative GE exam.

GE holistic writing exam constructed by the GE Committee

 

EEI 7: 75% of students will be able to apply quantitative methods to solving real-life problems.

Summative GE exam written by the GE Committee

 

EEI 8: 75% of students will be able to interrogate an issue from a different racial, class or gender position as shown on a summative GE exam.

Summative GE Exam to be constructed by the GE Committee

 

EEI 9: 75% of students will have had active participation in a program involving substantial contact with another culture or sub-culture

Love Works, some Student ministries, international ed., Urban Term
Varied Sources

 

EEI 10: 75% of those students (EEI 9) will report some sense of their own cultural otherness

Post experience survey
Varied Sources

 

EEI 11: 75% of students will have participated in a service activity at PLNU.

Love Works, Stud. Ministry, Health Promotion Center data
Varied Sources

 

EEI 12: 75% of students will have had 10 or more opportunities to work in a team in or outside of class.

Love Works, Stud. Ministry, Health Promotion Center data
Varied Sources

 

EEI 13: 75% of students will demonstrate the ability and willingness to balance the varied aspects of their lives as shown on a senior survey.

 

Senior survey question (HERI)