Welcome to the Tusculum College Rubric Entry Tool (or T.C.R.E.T.) on-line site! This tool has been established to help facilitate the entry of your course assessments. Please use the Login section located just above this section. Once you have logged in, you will be asked to supply some basic information about the course for which you are providing assessment results. After this, you will be taken to another page where you will enter student information and assessment scores. Things you will need to have before beginning this process:
This site is provided for your convenience to hopefully expedite the fulfilment of this requirement. Tusculum College will provide all faculty with data and research conclusions at the end of each academic year. This collection process should provide the institution with real-time tracking of our students' proficiency in our competencies.
Please do not hesitate to make suggestions or recommendations on how this site can be modified to better meet your needs.
The mission of the Competency Program is to help students develop the skills and virtues that are essential to good citizenship. Tusculum College has identified writing, analytical reading, public speaking, critical analysis, mathematics, and computer literacy as the foundation competencies that students need to participate fully and effectively in public life. If the best interests of the individual and the community are to be served, these citizenship skills must be guided by a complementary set of citizenship virtues. The College has designated self-knowledge, civility, and the ethics of social responsibility as the virtue competencies.
The competencies are integrated into Tusculum College coursework so that knowledge, skills, and virtues are mutually supportive. As students progress through the curriculum, they become more proficient in their academic skills and more mindful of their practices of virtue. The scholarship, communication abilities, and personal values represented by the competencies enable Tusculum graduates to enhance their personal and professional lives and improve the lives of others in the communities they join.
The Commons is rooted in the republican tradition of responsible and virtuous citizenship that informs modern pluralistic civil societies and in the Judeo-Christian tradition, with its emphasis on compassion for others and respect for the dignity and worth of all persons.
The Commons is designed:
This site was recently updated and given a new look. Please let either Amanda Kyker or Travis Crabtree know if you experience any errors while on this site. As always, please feel free to make suggestions on making this a useful tool.