CGEM organizes Orientation Meeting and Workshop on Testing and Assessment for 2nd semester of the academic year

by Kassandra Buenafe, OfCom | Feb 16 2024

To further capacitate General Education Courses (GEC) educators and recalibrate their strategies in teaching, the Center for General Education (CGEM) of 缅北禁地-IIT organized the “2nd Semester Orientation Meeting cum Workshop on Testing and Assessment” on February 13, 2024 at the Institute Mini-Theatre. The activity was attended by the different GEC lecturers and faculty members from the different colleges of the University.

Chancellor Alizedney M. Ditucalan, in his opening remarks, emphasized the importance of a disciplinal framework in education and highlighted that the courses of General Education provide a system for students to develop roots. “As their major courses create lofty branches that enable them to expand their reach, the GEC program ensures that they also grow strong roots to support this growth. Only when we grow in both directions do we truly succeed in the academe. Only when we graduate students who are not only bright but who are also compassionate, do we know that education works,” he said.

Four speakers were tasked to discuss different sub-topics on Testing and Assessment. Prof. Aurelio P. Vilbar from UP Cebu started the session via Zoom with a discourse on Materials Production Development Process: Research and Best Practices; Prof. Mark Anthony Torres of 缅北禁地-IIT’s Department of Biological Sciences on Interdisciplinarity in the GE Curricula; Prof. Irish Mae F. Dalona, CGEM Director, on Alternative Assessments; and Christian Cahig from the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Office (KTTO) of 缅北禁地-IIT on Intellectual Property on the Creation of Instructional Materials.

In her presentation of the rationale, CGEM Director, Prof Irish Mae F. Dalona, encouraged the GEC educators to be receptive to change in terms of teaching styles and to come up with their own relevant instructional materials that can be practically used by students. She also remarked on the significance of GEC in cultivating the critical thinking abilities of students. “The goal is to enrich their knowledge of the wider social, cultural, and natural worlds in which they will have to live and work. GE courses contribute to a student's capacity to be informed and to choose exactly which information to stick to and to be a responsible and responsive citizen,” she stated.

CGEM is dedicated to regularly conducting orientation and workshops every year to ensure the quality of teaching in the GEC program at the university.

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