1) Written and Oral Communication Students will demonstrate the interactive nature of communication involving speaking, writing, listening and reading. Evidence will be the student’s ability to make a clear, well-organized verbal presentation employing appropriate evidence to support the arguments or conclusions and to write a clear, well-organized paper using documentation and quantitative tools when appropriate.

6) Ethics and Values applied to decision-making Students will demonstrate facility in making value judgments and ethical decisions by analyzing and formulating the value foundation/framework of a specific area of knowledge in its theory and practice or in a professional context. Evidence will be the ability to identify own values, infer and analyze values in artistic and humanistic works as well as scientific and technological developments and to engage in values-inflected and ethical decision-making in multiple contexts.

Year/Semester	Section	Class SIze	Sample Size	Assessment Method	Evaluation Instrument
Spring 2013	0324	34	11	Case Study	Rubric

Assessment Description - Elaborate on the details of the assessment method. (e.g. length, Time in semester, Type, etc.) The Law Discipline has decided to assess the ethics cases study one more time but to use a new rubric based on critical thinking principles and then to compare with the last assessment in Spring 2012

Assessed By: Jordan, David C. 6/25/2013

	Good 10.00 pts.	Fair 5.00 pts.	Poor 2.00 pts.
Clarity	Good Student elaborates on the application of the appropriate ethical principles to solve the ethics case study	Fair Student partially elaborates on the application of the appropriate ethical principles to solve the ethics case study	Poor Student does not elaborate on the application of the appropriate ethical principles to solve the ethics case study	8.6 (86 %)
Accuracy	Good Student is accurate in the selection of the correct ethical principle to apply in solving the ethics case study	Fair Student is somewhat accurate in the selection of the correct ethical principle to apply in solving the ethics case study	Poor Student is inaccurate in the selection of the correct ethical principle to apply in solving the ethics case study	9.1 (91 %)
Relevance	Good Student provides analysis that is relevant to the solution of the ethics case study	Fair Student provides some analysis that is relevant to the solution of the ethics case study	Poor Student provides little or analysis that is relevant to the solution of the ethics case study	9.1 (91 %)
Depth	Good Student is able to grasp and discuss the complexities and difficulties of the ethics case study.	Fair Student is able to grasp and discuss some of the complexities and difficulties of the ethics case study.	Poor Student is unable able to grasp and discuss any of the complexities and difficulties of the ethics case study.	9.1 (91 %)

Rubric Score: 90 %

Again the assessment in spring 2013 outstripped the one in Spring 2012, 90% vs. 81% or a net gain of 9%. The students perform better in each instance when they are required to read and re-read, and then apply materials on ethics and critical thinking. See below materials which each semester students must read, and discuss and apply. This is the main reason all of the assessments have improved in our ethics study case.

Curriculum Modifications Planned? NO

Any Resource Requests? NO