Project based assessment can coherently incorporate gen ed and program learning goals into your course.
Instructors routinely struggle with covering content and also crafting assignments that enable students to build essential employability skills, as well as develop facility in discipline-specific conventions. Project based assessment can be a creative, enjoyable way for students to "show what they know" while also developing these skills. Because project based assessment increases engagement, students will work harder to develop a finished product that shows higher-level thinking. Knowledge and skills meld organically.
This session will review some of the gen ed and program goals for psychology, and demonstrate how those objectives were incorporated into a project for Introduction to Psychology. Instructors will then consider their own "beyond-the-course" learning objectives and various means to teach these with project requirements. Instructors will share their insights with the group to build an idea bank.