Adelphi’s General Education Learning goals are listed below. The rubrics used to score students’ command of these areas of learning are linked to the title of each learning goal. These rubrics have been developed by groups of faculty particularly expert/concerned with the specific goals. They are living documents deliberately subject to refinement and revision in the light of our experiences with the Capstone Assessment program.


Communication is the clear, coherent interchange of ideas with a particular purpose and audience, using written, oral, and/or electronic means. Note that the development of students' communication skills may be either an explicit goal or an implicit, yet essential, component of instruction.

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Critical and Integrative Thinking is the ability to identify, evaluate, and construct arguments and proposed solutions to problems. Students should be able, through logical analysis and synthesis, to categorize information, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant data, and predict outcomes.

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Quantitative Reasoning is the ability to understand and apply numerical information. This understanding requires the skills of computation, reading of tables and graphs, statistical evaluation of data, and presentation of quantitative arguments.

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Information Literacy is a set of abilities enabling students to recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. "Information," in this context, includes a variety of sources—print, non-print, and electronic.

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Global Citizenship
Global Citizenship demonstrates global understanding and/or global citizenship. Global understanding encompasses awareness of the diversity of human experience and/or global interdependence. Global citizenship encompasses the learning goals of values, needs, and challenges and individual responsibility to the broader community.

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Artistic Understanding and Artistic Practice
Artistic Understanding: The ability to understand and interpret the meanings of works in a particular artistic discipline based on sufficient knowledge of its history and techniques.

Artistic Practice: The ability to learn the skills and technical vocabulary sufficient to work with focused attention in a particular artistic discipline.

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