The Brookhaven College plan (pdf 9kb) calls for institution-wide assessment of Intellectual Competencies on a calendar which focuses on one competency per year. Each year, a committee will be appointed to lead a college-wide examination of on one of the competencies. The committee will define the Competency, identify effective teaching methods for addressing the Competency, design methods assessing the Competency, report results of the assessments to the College’s Curriculum Assessment Committee. Because critical thinking is addressed in all disciplines in the Core Curriculum, the Focus Committee on Critical Thinking began its work during the 2003-2004 academic year, defining the Competency and initiating interdisciplinary conversations about teaching critical thinking. Faculty are currently conducting critical thinking workshops in the classroom, and during the 2004-2005 academic year, faculty will address methods to compile data for an institutional assessment of critical thinking.

Faculty discipline groups within the Core will be responsible for determining how the Exemplary Educational Objectives will be assessed for discipline areas.  Brookhaven faculty groups will work with the suggestions developed by the District Curriculum Committees to coordinate measurement techniques within each discipline.