NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Back to results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
ERIC Number: EJ614994
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-8756-7555
What Are You Assessing? General Education and the Humanities Curriculum.
Helm, Thomas E.
College Teaching, v48 n3 p90-94 Sum 2000
Discusses the challenges faced at Western Illinois University to develop a general education assessment framework in the humanities. Stresses the importance of interpretation in all the humanities, assessment goals that focus on students' understanding of humanistic discourse, and ability to use at least one discipline's mode of interpretation and representative concepts. (DB)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Evaluation Methods, General Education, Higher Education, Humanistic Education, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Student Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Western Illinois University