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• W3641129 abstract "Do students change as a result of completing their general education requirement? This question was examined by using a pretest/posttest design with five different cohorts of students required to complete a general education program in American history and politics. Differences among various groups in Cohen’s d (the standardized difference between pretest and posttest means) were examined using hierarchical linear modeling. Results indicated that differences could be explained by how the requirement was fulfilled; negligible gains were found for students using advanced placement or transfer credit (.04 -.18), whereas moderate/large gains were found for students who had completed the university course(s) (.42 .90). The gain found for students yet to fulfill the requirement (.28) was explained by the large presence in that group of students currently enrolled in the course. Different definitions of d used with the pretest/posttest design are described and implications of the results for assessment are discussed. Examining College Students’ Gains in General Education Many institutions of higher education require all students, regardless of major, to take a prespecified set of courses during their first several years in college. These courses are typically called general education or core education courses with general education being defined by Gaff (1991) as the knowledge, skills, values and personal characteristics of the educated person. Proponents of general education argue that these courses serve not only as a fundamental basis for a liberal arts education, but also ensure that students are exposed to material that will enable them to be educated citizens, lifelong learners and mindful servants to society (Fong, 2004). A survey of a national sample of colleges and universities in 2000 indicated that the median general education requirement is 40% of the typical baccalaureate degree (Ratcliff, Johnson, La Nasa, & Gaff, 2001). Since a large proportion of a student’s undergraduate education at institutions with this requirement is composed of general education courses, it is important to understand what impact these courses have on students’ knowledge and skills. Although the Ratcliff et al. (2001) survey indicated that only 32% of institutions assess the effectiveness of general education programs, the authors note that this percentage is likely to rise given the increasing demand for accountability from state legislatures and accrediting bodies. According to Banta, Lund, Black and Oblander (1996), institutions that do engage in the assessment use a variety of different methods to evaluate gains in students’ general education skills and knowledge. Some institutions simply ask students what kind of skills and knowledge they feel they have gained, whereas other institutions rely on more direct measures of student learning, such as tests or portfolios. Regardless of which type of assessment is used, it is a good idea to acquire some baseline measure of what students know and are able to do prior to any college coursework. In contrast to only collecting information from students after completing the general education curriculum, collecting measures on students before (pretest) and after (posttest) their completion of the curriculum allows greater confidence in claiming that the change in scores is attributable to the program (Erwin, 1990). In other words, obtaining pretest and posttest measure provides more meaning to scores in that it allows one to quantify the value added by the general education curriculum. If such a repeated measures design is used, there are a variety of different ways that the results can be conveyed. The most straightforward approach would be to report the pretest and posttest average scores, with the difference between the averages representing the typical change in raw scores over time. A disadvantage of this approach is its dependency on the particular score scale being employed. For instance, a typical gain of 5 points appears large on a 20-point scale, but negligible on a 100-point scale. For this reason, it is desirable to report standardized measures of change. Standardized measures of an effect are often conveyed using effect sizes, which are typically used to capture practical significance. Readers may be familiar with the effect size known as Cohen’s d, which provides a standardized measure of the difference between group means. By standardized we mean that the difference is reported in standard deviation units, not in the unit of the raw score scale. When the two means being compared are from the same group of people at different time points, different definitions of Cohen’s d can be used to capture the" @default.
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