The report discusses students' general educational skills development and outcomes assessment at College of DuPage (COD)(Illinois). Since one goal of general education assessment was to provide a comparison to other institutions, selection from among three national standardized tests of general skills was undertaken rather than the development of a local college-specific test of competence. College Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) provided six area-tests that could be aggregated as valid and reliable institution level measurements. The aims of general education are to enable students to understand and appreciate their culture, understand and appreciate their environment, and develop a system of personal values based on accepted ethics that lead to civic and social responsibility. The three skills areas where direct measurements of student proficiency were obtained from the ACT-CAAP testing over the past two years are as follows: skills in analysis, skills in communications, and skills in quantification- mathematics. Assessment of skills development in analysis may be inferred from two of the subject area tests in the CAAP battery: critical thinking and scientific reasoning. Results from the Critical Thinking test indicate that entering COD freshmen score significantly higher than the national average for freshmen at two-year public colleges as reported by ACT. (Contains tables and figures.) (JA)