LINGUIST List 13.1251

Sun May 5 2002

Qs: Assessment of Undergraduate Ling Curriculum

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Mary Shapiro, Assessment of Undergraduate Linguistics Curriculum

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Message 1: Assessment of Undergraduate Linguistics Curriculum

Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 15:10:31 -0500
From: Mary Shapiro <mshapirotruman.edu>
Subject: Assessment of Undergraduate Linguistics Curriculum


I would like information on ways that other undergraduate linguistics programs assess their students and/or their curriculum. We have a linguistics major and minor, but currently our students are asked to take the GRE general exam as their senior "exit" test. (This school requires senior tests of all majors; it really wants nationally normed tests, and I am unaware of any specific to linguistics.) If anyone has any knowledge of an appropriate instrument, or good ideas about assessment in general, I would love to hear about this. Also, just gathering information about how comparable programs are assessed may help me convince the administration that we do not need a nationally normed test, so any information about assessment practices elsewhere would be helpful. If there seems to be a lot of interest in this topic, I will synthesize the answers and post a summary.

Thank you.

Mary Shapiro Asst. Professor of Linguistics Truman State University Kirksville, MO 63501 mshapirotruman.edu

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