Research Guides: Core Curriculum 2014: Personal Responsibility

Core Objective Definition

Personal Responsibility - to include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Web Sites

On Course (The Book)
A leader in introducing Personal Responsibility is Skip Downing, through his college success course entitled “On Course.” This is information about the textbook for the course.
On Course Principles
A comparison of successful and unsuccessful students around which the On Course curriculum is developed, this provides some criteria for Personal Responsibility.
On course: strategies for creating success in college and in life
UHD Library owns a copy of this leading college success textbook.
Promising Practices for Personal and Social Responsibility
These findings from a national research collaborative are a product of AAC&U's Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility initiative.

Assessment

Ethical Reasoning VALUE Rubric
AAC&U rubric for assessing ethical reasoning skills.
Foundations and Skills for Lifelong Learning VALUE Rubric
AAC&U rubric for assessing lifelong learning disposition and skills.

Relevant Article Databases

Library Resources

Articles and books on teaching personal responsibility skills can be found through LibSearch by searching for "personal responsibility" "college students."

"personal responsibility" "college students"

Subject Librarian

Pat Ensor

Subjects:Higher Education