Course Revalidation

A Process for Ensuring and Documenting Student Learning in General Education

Joan HawthorneAnne Kelsch

Tom Steen

University of North DakotaGrand Forks

What is Revalidation?

Revalidation is . . . Re-approval

Quality control

Mini-program review

Re-calibration

How Does It Work?

North Dakota’s 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

North Dakota’s Revalidations Faculty committee

reviews and revalidates

Liaisons to each department

Subcommittees do first review

Full committee approves or returns

Registrar lists approved courses

Why Revalidate?

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 course’s contribution toward GE outcomes

How Has RV Developed?

Key Results

How are RV and Assessment Related?