Minot State University College Portrait
Minot State University500 University Ave. W Minot, ND 58707
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Student Learning at Minot State University
All colleges and universities use multiple approaches to measure student learning. Many of these are specific to particular disciplines, many are coordinated with accrediting agencies, and many are based on outcomes after students have graduated.
Minot State University utilizes the Collegiate Learning Assessment to evaluate the quality of student learning outcomes. The instiutions administers the cross-sectional CLA to incoming freshmen students each fall by incorporating the CLA into the first year experience seminar required of all new freshmen students. The administration in the spring to exiting seniors is administered in senior capstone courses.
Learning Assessment Examples
Pilot Project to Measure Core Learning Outcomes
Colleges and universities participating in the College Portrait measure the typical improvement in students' abilities to think, reason, and write using one of three tests. This is part of a pilot project to better understand and compare what students learn between their freshman and senior years at different colleges and universities.
2011 - 10 Results from the Collegiate Learning Assessment
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) measures critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication using a performance task and an analytic writing task. The scores from the tasks are reported separately below.
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Test Information
Performance Task Results for First-time, Full-time Students
The increase in learning on the performance task is below what would be expected at an institution testing students of similar academic abilities.
Freshman Score: 951
Senior Score: 1067
CLA score range: 400 to no maximum score.
Average EEA scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 1022
Senior Score: 1052
Analytic Writing Task Results for First-time, Full-time Students
The increase in learning on the analytic writing task is at or near what would be expected at an institution testing students of similar academic abilities.
Freshman Score: 956
Senior Score: 1064
CLA score range: 400 to no maximum score.
Average EEA scores for tested students
Freshman Score: 1022
Senior Score: 1052