Outcomes – General Education

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) have become a more ingrained aspect of General Education at EWU to help make the experience more cohesive for students and more assessable for faculty. These are intellectual and practical skills based on national standards. The following outcomes are from the AAC&U best practices and are currently being honed to best fit EWU.

Group One

Analytical Thinking

Creative Thinking

Information Literacy

Students will demonstrate information literacy by:

Utilizing search strategies to find relevant information.
Applying sound criteria (i.e., credibility, accuracy, and currency) to render an educated judgment about the quality of information.
Using information to effectively accomplish a clear purpose.
Accurately employing scholarly conventions for attributing information to its source.

Group Two

Written Communication

Quantitative Literacy

Students will demonstrate quantitative literacy by:

Solving mathematical problems correctly by performing calculations.
Describing the meaning of information presented in mathematical forms, such as equations, graphs, diagrams, and tables, accurately.
Converting information into mathematical forms, such as equations, graphs, diagrams, and tables, accurately.
Using quantitative information correctly to support an argument.

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