Assessment Icons

While navigating the curriculum guide you will notice courses labeled with the icons below. This is meant to be a simple visual reference to recognize courses that have largely been designed around an assessment of a particular skill or process.

Major Writing Evaluation

Courses with this tag will focus largely on student writing. Students should expect a significant writing assignment as a summative experience in this course.

Summative Traditional Test

Courses with this tag will prepare students for a traditional style summative test.

Collaborative Project

Courses with this tag will provide students with the experience of working on a longformat collaborative project with peers. Students entering these courses should expect to build communication skills, both among peers and through public presentation.

Public Performance / Showcase

Courses with this tag will result in some form of public performance or showcase of student work. This could vary from a scheduled group performance to the publication of an individual student’s work.

Creative Design & Production

Courses with this tag will provide students an opportunity to design and create through varying methods and the use of various media.