Questions to Answer in Your Assessment Update

for Undergraduate Programs

 

 

 

Please include the following information in your assessment update.

  1. Basic Information:   Please provide:
    1. The name of your program
    2. The name of its department (if applicable)
    3. The name of the department chair (if applicable)
    4. The name of the program director or program coordinator (if applicable)
    5. The name of the assessment coordinator
    6. The date the update is completed
  2. Key Program Learning Goals: Please list three to six key learning goals of your program. Each learning goal should describe knowledge, a skill, and/or an attitude, value, or disposition that you want your students to be able to demonstrate AFTER they complete your program.  If you would like your learning goals named a “best practice,” please attach evidence that key program learning goals are clearly and actively communicated to students and faculty in the program.
  3. Goal/Curriculum Alignment: For each key learning goal, please describe how you ensure that all students in your program have sufficient opportunity to achieve this goal before they complete the program.  In what course(s) do they learn this? What assignment(s) or other learning activities highlight this goal?
  4. Assessment Methods: For each key learning goal, please describe how you are currently assessing how well your students have achieved it.  How often are you conducting this assessment (e.g., every semester, every other year)? Please attach examples of your assessment tools (e.g., assignments, grading criteria, scoring guidelines, surveys). If you would like your assessment methods named a “best practice,” please summarize evidence that  assessment methods yield truthful, fair information that can be used with confidence.
  5. Assessment Results: Please summarize the results of your assessments for each learning goal since your last update . What has each assessment told you about how well your students are achieving this particular goal?  If you would like your use of results to be named a “best practice,” please describe the assessment performance levels you consider minimally adequate for students completing the program, and compare your results against those standards.
  6. Dissemination of Results: With whom have the results been shared (e.g., program assessment committee, all faculty in the program, students in the program)? If you would like your use of results to be named a “best practice,” please describe how you have shared positive assessment results with appropriate audiences (e.g., current students, prospective employers).
  7. Use of Results: Please describe how you have used your assessment findings for each learning goal to help your students.  How have you revised your goals, curriculum, teaching strategies, or assessment strategies or otherwise tried to improve student learning?
  8. Comments: Please feel free to add any optional comments (e.g., anticipated changes in program goals).

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