INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION COURSE REVIEW FORM

Directions: Base review on syllabus/course outline, text, final exam questions and papers, grade distribution, faculty expertise, course evaluations, professional standards and practices in the discipline. Form to be completed only for courses designated by the Department's review coordinator.
Course: Location, if not main campus:
Instructor: Evaluator:
Number of credits now awarded: ___
 
Basis of Findings
Aspect of Course That
 is not College Level		 Syllabus Text Exams Graded Student
Work		 Specific Content Area of
Deficiency
Breadth of Coverage
(coverage of major topics)		          
Depth of Coverage          
Currency of Materials          
Comments:
STANDARD: "Student Effort" (Carnegie Unit)
This standard requires a total of 45 hours of 50 minutes each of student effort for each semester hour of credit awarded. One-third of this time (15 hours of 50 minutes each) is spent in class; 30 hours (of 50 minutes each) of homework are required for each credit.
  1. Amount of credit that can be awarded based on this standard:
  2. Basis of awarding less credit than at present:
    • Expectations of student effort as indicated in syllabus (assignments)
    • Evidence of student effort (exams given, student papers)

Comments:

  • Are there appropriate library-based assignments and development of research skills?
     
  • Is there evidence of general skills development, including writing, mathematics, critical thinking, as appropriate to discipline?
     
  • Are there any provisions for a supplemental non-credit component, if appropriate for the course, to remedy basic knowledge of skill deficiencies?

  • Other:

    Office of College and University Evaluation Attention: Accreditation
    State Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, 5 North Mezzanine
    Albany, NY 12234  Phone: (518) 474-2593  Fax: (518) 486-1861
    E-mail: bmeinert@mail.nysed.gov