1. Course Revalidation A Process for Ensuring and Documenting Student Learning in General Education

2. Joan Hawthorne Anne Kelsch Tom Steen University of North Dakota Grand Forks

3. What is Revalidation?

4. Revalidation is... Re-approval Quality control Mini-program review Re-calibration

5. How Does It Work?

6. North Dakotas Revalidations Every four years By department All GE courses offered Criteria and procedures posted Each course is processed for RV Help: RV Workshop and program consultants

7. North Dakotas Revalidations Faculty committee reviews and revalidates Liaisons to each department Subcommittees do first review Full committee approves or returns Registrar lists approved courses

8. Why Revalidate?

9. Revalidation A quality control process based on ensuring student learning and focused on intentional program goals. Automatic approval did not feel right Impact: If student learning was to matter, we need a means to foreground it. Consistency: RV checks degree of fit between courses and GE program criteria Awareness: a way to make sure that instructors and student know each courses contribution toward GE outcomes

10. How Has RV Developed?

11. Key Results

12. How are RV and Assessment Related?