Program Administrative Goals

• Create an appropriate plan for meeting the GWAR on the CSUB campus.
• Monitor and periodically review the plan’s requirements (GWAR exam and courses).
  • 1. Approve and review GWAR courses.
  • 2. Write and oversee the grading of the GWAR exam.

Course/Exam Assessment Criteria

Tasks

Students can extrapolate writing tasks (what they need to do) from a reading prompt and then adequately perform those tasks.

Reasoning

Students can recognize a writer’s tone and how it informs a text’s statements; consider rhetorical strategies and their connection to meaning; identify assumptions in reading and writing; analyze and adapt writing techniques to purpose; and recognize faulty logic.

Development

Students can fully develop arguments (thesis statements) and write cohesively using adequate transitions and can present appropriate details, examples, and definitions as support.

Sources

Students can paraphrase/summarize sources without plagiarism and integrate sources into their own writing.

Prose

Students can use a variety of sentence structures; use varied levels of linguistic formality; analyze a potential audience and use an appropriate style, tone, and vocabulary; and revise and edit their own writing using standard, edited American English.

Course and/or Exam Assessment/Review

• Periodically review/revise GWAR course syllabi to ensure they are meeting the Assessment Criteria.
• Periodically review/revise GWAR rubric and essay format to ensure Assessment Criteria is being met.
• Require GWAR grading participation at least once an academic year for all GWAR instructors.