General Education Assessment
A flexible, outcomes-focused assessment designed to support institutional accreditation and customizable to your learning goals.
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Flexibility That Fits Your General Education Goals
General education assessment can be difficult to get right, especially when many tools are rigid, hard to align, or don’t provide useful benchmarks. Peregrine makes it easier. Our assessment helps institutions measure general education outcomes across core knowledge areas in a way that supports accreditation, curriculum design, and program improvement.
The General Education Assessment is a fully online, customizable tool that measures student knowledge across a broad range of general education topics. It is normed, summative, and objective, and it delivers reliable data you can use to demonstrate outcomes, track progress, and inform decisions.
You’ll get actionable data through detailed reports, including the ability to benchmark your results against associate and bachelor aggregates. No proctoring is required, and the setup is simple and supported. Our assessment gives you the data and documentation to support your institutional effectiveness goals.
Benchmarking Made Simple
Discover exactly who you can benchmark against with Peregrine’s General Education Assessment. Our robust benchmarking capabilities let you compare your results to give you the insights you need to drive continuous improvement.
Reporting that Drives Progress
Our assessment was designed to help institutions demonstrate general education outcomes in a clear and objective way. The reports provide the insights you need to benchmark, analyze performance, and prepare for accreditation reviews.
- Internal Reports: Measure overall program-level performance.
- External Reports: Benchmark results against peer institutions.
- Individual Reports: Track each student’s performance and growth.
- Comparative Reports: Compare results across student groups and time periods to uncover trends and gaps.
In addition to your 14 reports, each student receives a Learner Assessment Report that shows how they performed and how they compare to reinforce what they’ve learned and how far they’ve come.
Customizable & Flexible
Your institution’s general education outcomes are unique, and your assessment should reflect that. Customize your experience with topic selection, delivery options, integration, and student survey questions.
Options include:
- Choose from 31 general education topics to build an assessment that aligns with your institutional learning outcomes.
- Deliver via a school-branded microsite or integrate with your LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, etc.)
- Optional student survey questions to collect an indirect measure seamlessly.
- Provide your own questions and we’ll create a custom topic for you.
Explore your options in our List of Available Exam Topics
Complimentary Student Survey
Gain a more complete view of student achievement with our customizable student survey, offered at no additional cost. Capture perceptions of learning, skills development, and program effectiveness. You can also include demographic and satisfaction questions to align with your institution’s specific needs and accreditation goals.
Download 70 Student Survey Question Ideas
Inbound/Outbound Assessment Construct
Peregrine’s Inbound/Outbound assessment construct measures student learning from the beginning to the end of a program. This approach provides a more complete understanding of student achievement.
While many institutions choose to implement both assessments to track growth over time, the model is flexible, and you can use just an Outbound assessment if a single measure better fits your program needs.
“A lot of our accreditation… wants to have some comparative analysis. How are you doing in comparison to other institutions? And the Peregrine reporting allows us to do that.”
— Dr. Kristina Collins, Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Accreditation at Ivy Tech Community College
“A lot of our accreditation… wants to have some comparative analysis. How are you doing in comparison to other institutions? And the Peregrine reporting allows us to do that.”
— Dr. Kristina Collins, Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Accreditation at Ivy Tech Community College
Frequently Asked Questions
Unlike many standardized assessments, our General Education Assessment is customizable. You can select topics that align with your institutional learning outcomes and even contribute your own questions. The reporting is comprehensive, flexible, and designed to support institutional excellence.
Our questions are developed by subject matter experts with academic and industry experience in their respective disciplines. Each question goes through a rigorous review process to ensure clarity, alignment with learning outcomes, and appropriateness for the academic level.
We provide the option to download raw data sets, allowing you to conduct deeper institutional research or integrate results into your internal dashboards or analysis tools.
All questions undergo a multi-step development and review process, including expert validation and ongoing statistical analysis. We maintain psychometric integrity through item-level analysis and aggregate performance review to ensure the tool is both valid and reliable.
The assessment can be delivered via your existing LMS through LTI integration. We provide integration instructions and support to make the process smooth and efficient.
Pricing depends on the quantity of all services used. Contact us for more information.
No. All standard reports, onboarding, value-added features, and ongoing technical support are included in your service package. Pricing is transparent and all-inclusive.
We’ll Guide You Every Step of the Way
We take a consultative approach to ensure long-term sustainability and success. Before implementation begins, our team meets with you to understand your program and provide recommendations for alignment and integration. From planning to reporting, we support your faculty, administrators, and leadership every step of the way.