COURSE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

This website contains important information for departmental faculty, students, and accrediting agencies regarding the assessment system that is in place for each of our Spanish courses. Specifically the website includes the following for each course:

1. Performance-based objectives—i.e., what knowledge students will be able to demonstrate and what skills they will be able to perform by the end of each course.
2. Student Outcomes Assessment Matrix, which illustrates:
• the relationship between course objectives and the College of Education and Educational Technology Conceptual Framework, ACTFL/NCATE Program Standards, and IUP Spanish Education Program Competencies;
• the types of assessments that verify attainment of each course objective. One or two assessments that appear in bold have been identified as the “key assessments” for the course. Accrediting agencies will find student performance data from these key assessments for each semester on the website managed by the College of Education and Educational Technology (see http://old.www.iup.edu/education/index.shtm for links to this information).
3. A scoring rubric for each key assessment that describes student performance in terms of three levels of performance: Target, Acceptable, Unacceptable. In some cases, information regarding conversion of rubric scores to grades/points is provided.

Assessment is a dynamic process, and the results inform and often change instructional practices and course design (i.e., objectives and assessments). This website will be updated on a regular basis to reflect these changes.

Oral Final Information (Spanish 101-201)

Assessment Video for Spanish 101-201

Individual Course Information

Spanish 101: Elementary Spanish I

Spanish 102: Elementary Spanish II

Spanish 201: Intermediate Spanish

Spanish 220: Intermediate Spanish Conversation and Grammar

Spanish 230: Intermediate Spanish Composition

Spanish 244: Modern Mexico

Spanish 260: Introduction to Hispanic Literature

Spanish 290: Spanish for Elementary Teaching

Spanish 340: Hispanic Civilization to 19th Century

Spanish 342: 20th Century Spanish Civilization & Culture

Spanish 344: 20th Century Spanish American Civilization & Culture

Spanish 350: Advanced Spanish Conversation

Spanish 353: Phonetics & Phonemics

Spanish 354: Commercial Spanish

Spanish 362: Survey of Peninsular Literature

Spanish 364: Survey of Spanish-American Literature

Spanish 390 Teaching of Elementary Content Through the Spanish Language

Spanish 404: Advanced Spanish Grammar

Spanish 410: Medieval Literature

Spanish 411: Golden Age Literature

Spanish 412: The Spanish Novel of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Spanish 413: Spanish Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Spanish 420: Modern Hispanic Theater

Spanish 421: Spanish Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Spanish 430: 20th Century Spanish-American Prose

Spanish 431: Spanish-American Poetry

Spanish 450: Conversation Forum

Education 453: Teaching of Foreign Languages in the Secondary School