Assessing Academic/Intellectual Skills in Keene State College’s Integrative Studies Program

Abstract

Key to the design of Keene State College’s Integrative Studies Program (ISP) was the intention to create a program based on a conceptual framework. The framework came from AAC&U’s Greater Expectations Report (2002) in which the essential learning outcomes for a liberal education were identified. In 2007 the program was implemented. The program has three sets of outcomes (intellectual skills, perspectives and interdisciplinary outcomes, and integrative outcomes). The focus of this article will be on the development of our process and on the assessment of intellectual skills.