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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?