The graduating student should prepare a final Portfolio Assessment as specified on the Portfolio Web Page.  This final assessment should include and overview of student progress over the college career.

University Component

Memo To: Faculty Advisers and Students enrolled in IDS 400
From       : Albert M. Katz, Coordinator of Assessment
Re           : What is IDS 400?
 

 IDS 400 is a core requirement in the General Education package.
It is zero credit. It is graded Pass-Fail. It will have no impact on
your tuition costs or on your grade-point average. Students must
enroll in the semester in which they intend to graduate. If you
participate in Assessment Day exams in April, and graduate the
following December, your April participation will "follow you" and be
noted in your fall enrolment in IDS 400.

 Please read the University Catalogue for 1998-2000, page 26 for an
 explicit description of the activities. The same information is on
pages 27 and 28 of the 1996-1998 General Catalogue.

 In general, there are 3 sets of activities:

   1 -  If you entered the university as a freshman and took the
   ACT-COMP entry exam to evaluate your readiness for General
   Education, then you will be asked to take the ACT-COMP closure
   examination to evaluate the effectiveness of our general education
   curriculum.

    If you transferred in to UW-Superior with 9 or more general
    education credits from another two or four year college, you most
    likely were not asked to take the entry exam. In that case you
    will not be asked to take the exit exam either. [A.P. credits
    from High School do not count for this.]

    2 - Each department's faculty decides on its own senior assessment
         activities.
          Some use ETS-MFAT [Major Field Achievement Tests]. Some use
          Senior Seminars or other Capstone activities. Whatever the
         department asks of you in this regard is what you are asked
         to do for IDS 400.

     3 - You will be asked to complete the Graduating Senior Learning
          Environment Survey. It will be given to you by the
          Registrar's Office when you fill out the  form asking for
          your diploma.

If you have any questions, please call the Coordinator of
Assessment, Dr. Albert M. Katz, at 394-8389, or the Graduate
Assistant for Assessment at 394-8141.