Assessment of Academic Achievement
Assignment: define and explain stress, list personal stressors, and explain their effects on the body.
Assignment: keep a log throughout the term and journal thoughts, feeling, and ideas in words and pictures and create a personal mission statement.
Movement exam: illustrate Yoga and other deep breathing techniques and progressive muscle relaxation.
Assignment: explain the effects that physical activity have on managing stress and formulate a plan for incorporating a chosen activity into one's life.
Assignment: record daily diet and compare against a selected standard. Make recommendations for improvement.
Class work: role play to practice listening, empathizing, assertiveness and communicating with clarity. Assignment: Write an assertive letter as a consumer or citizen.
Class work: using selected approaches and models, practice role playing to manage anger, creatively solve problems, and effectively resolve conflicts.
Assignment: log contexts of anxiety and develop ways to handle effectively.
Assignment: formulate short, medium and long term goals, establish a daily schedule with priorities and implement. Examine personal barriers to effectively managing time and make adjustments for improvement.
Assignment: analyze personal spending habits and budget. Construct short, medium and long term money goals and design a savings plan to ascertain everything on the goal's lists as well as an efficient budget.
Assessment Plan for Wellness General Education Outcome
Faculty will develop an assessment tool to evaluate the three areas of Wellness necessary to establish a positive pattern of lifelong wellness choices.
The assessment tool will be administered at the beginning and end of the course.
A minimum of two sections of each course will be randomly selected for evaluation.
The assessment tool will be given in the fall, 2013 and data will be evaluated in the winter, 2014.
Recommendations for changes will be implemented in the fall, 2014.