Guidelines for 1996 Assessment Reports

1. What are your unit’s goals for student learning? Indicate how your goals were developed and who was involved. Have they been modified based on last year’s report?
2. How did you assess student learning? What testing instruments, methods and processes did you use to collect assessment data? Have these assessment activities been modified since last year?
3. Detail how you are analyzing the data and diagnosing strengths and weaknesses.
4. What evidence (assessment data) have you gathered indicating that you accomplishing your goals? What evidence indicates that they are not being fully accomplished?.
5. What improvements or enhancements have been implemented based your assessment activity? How are you using information from your answer to question 3 to improve your program?
6. What changes do you recommend for your unit in the future. a) in academic program/curriculum, and b) in your department’s assessment process (goals, objectives, methods)?

Reports should be concise, about eight to ten pages. Please submit two hard copies of each report and a disk containing the report. Preferred word processing programs are MS Word and WordPerfect. Please label disk with computer type, word processor name and version, and file name. Reports will be posted on a special WWW site.

Reports are to be sent to your Dean’s office and are due in the Provost’s Office on June 30, 1997.