Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.38
Liaison Laurie Husted
Submission Date June 12, 2014
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STARS v2.0

Bard College
AC-6: Sustainability Literacy Assessment

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.27 / 4.00 Laurie Husted
Sustainability Manager
Bard Office of Sustainability (BoS)
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The percentage of students assessed for sustainability literacy (directly or by representative sample) and for whom a follow-up assessment is conducted:
28.50

The percentage of students assessed for sustainability literacy (directly or by representative sample) without a follow-up assessment:
0

A copy of the questions included in the sustainability literacy assessment(s):
The questions included in the sustainability literacy assessment(s) :

1. What are the potential effects of global climate change?
Put the following list in order of the activities with the largest environmental impact to those with the smallest environmental impact (i.e. consider all resources and energy used, emissions and pollution generated, etc.)
3. Bard has gone to single stream recycling and uses a two-bin system around campus: one for recycling and one for trash. If recyclable material is disposed of in the trash bin what happens to it:
4. At Kline, there is a food-scrap bucket at the dish return window for you to compost your food waste (which is later used for landscaping on campus)—about how many pounds of food waste does Bard reclaim per day?
5. What is the main source of our daily-use water at Bard?
6. The image above (US Energy Information Administration, 3/2013) shows the breakdown of total US electricity generation in 2012 by fuel source. When burned/converted at the power plant to generate the same amount of electricity, which source do you think produces the most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Rank from highest to least emissions:
7. Environmental Justice refers to:
8. What is the most common cause of pollution of streams, rivers, and oceans?
9. Ecosystem Services are natural processes and resources that are vital for humans. Which critical ecosystem services do wetlands provide? (Pick all that apply):
10. The size of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is often used to gauge the health of the US economy. Pick all of the following activities that contribute to GDP:
11. The most significant driver in the loss of species and ecosystems around the world is


A brief description of how the assessment(s) were developed:

took at question from national environmental literacy survey, reviewed other institutional assessment questions and made Bard-specific questions.


A brief description of how the assessment(s) were administered:

Sent to all first year students as they were returning for Citizen Science January session. Also made hard copies available to all students (very low rate of return on that effort).


A brief summary of results from the assessment(s):

In general More than half the responses were 'correct' for half the questions.


The website URL where information about the literacy assessment(s) is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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