Assessing general education science program learning outcome 3.5
General education science program learning outcome 3.5 states that students will be able to: Perform experiments that use scientific methods as part of the inquiry process. This outcome serves institutional learning outcome eight quantitative reasoning where students will demonstrate the: Ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats. Taken together, the assessment for program learning outcome 3.5 ought to provide evidence of an ability to create data supported documents that communicate results of experiments performed using scientific methods. In science classes with a laboratory component, laboratory reports provide documentation of students engaging in gathering data, analyzing data, and discussing results. The laboratory reports may also includ...