Are you teaching an ELAC course with Ethical Reasoning or Quantitative Literacy as the primary learning outcome in the 2025-2026 academic year?
You can read updates, find workshop materials, and get answers to Frequently Asked Questions on the ELAC Assessment Sharepoint site.
Eastern is committed to ensuring that students are achieving the learning outcomes that drive the ELAC curriculum:
Under ELAC, student artifacts from ELAC classes are collected each semester, de-identified, and evaluated by trained evaluators for evidence of student learning in these learning outcomes. Faculty evaluators apply the rubrics detailed in Senate Bill 19/20-07, and the university assessment coordinator analyzes the results. The results are reported to senate committees, including the Liberal Arts Program Committee. These results inform faculty development offerings and programmatic changes to build on program strengths and target program weaknesses.
Learning outcomes are assessed on a three-year cycle:
| Learning Outcome | 24-25 | 25-26 | 26-27 | 27-28 | 28-29 | 29-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | x | x | ||||
| Creativity | x | x | ||||
| Critical Thinking | x | x | ||||
| Ethical Reasoning | x | x | ||||
| Quantitative Literacy | x | x |
Each year, a group of faculty evaluators are trained to review assignment prompts for alignment with ELAC rubrics and to evaluate student artifacts.
2024-2025 Faculty Evaluators
Lessons Learned from Assessment
LAC Assessment (historical)
Information about the assessment of individual academic programs can be found on the website of Planning and Institutional Research. This site also includes information about applying for assessment funding.
For more details about the ELAC assessment process, please contact the university assessment coordinator, Suki Grandhi.
See information for faculty on designing ELAC courses.
See ELAC rubrics.
