Assessment at Skidmore

High-Impact Educational Practices

The following is a table showing high-impact educational practices, as defined by George Kuh, and relevant assessments at Skidmore.

Practice	Assessment
First-year experience	Assessment of Writing in the Scribner Seminars, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Understanding Mentoring in the FYE: An Exploratory Study of Faculty and Peer Mentor Insights into the Meaning of Mentoring at Skidmore College, April 2007 Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience: Assessment of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project Grant, April 2009 FYE Assessment 2010
Service learning	Civic Engagement at Skidmore: A Survey of Students, Faculty, and Community Organizations, Spring 2005 Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience: Assessent of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project Grant, April 2009
Study abroad	Pilot assessment of learning in London program under development
Exploring "differences"; intercultural studies with an experiential component	Kristie Ford, IGR assessment report Exit interviews 2010 CHAS NSSE
Internship	RCIA Survey, 2010 CFG Internship Survey, 2010
Research project	SURE survey 2010/2011
Community service/volunteer work	Civic Engagement at Skidmore: A Survey of Students, Faculty, and Community Organizations, Spring 2005 Departmental community engagement activities (ES, SW, ED, MB, EX?, SP?)
Independent study
Capstone/thesis	Using the Capstone Course for Assessment of Learning in the Sociology Major History Assessment Report, 2009 English Assessment Report, 2009

1. Kuh, George D. High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access To Them, and Why They Matter. AAC&U 2009.

Summary of Assessment Data, Fall 2010

Click here to link to a memo on High-Impact educational practices at Skidmore