Guidelines for 1998 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 previous reports?
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 have analyzed the data or other gathered information.
4. What evidence (assessment information) 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 on your assessment activities? 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 and include information on assessment of graduate and undergraduate programs. Please submit two hard copies of each report and a disk containing the report. Please use MS Word and label disk with computer type, Word version, and file name. Reports will be posted on a special WWW site (/instres/assessments/index.html)..

Reports are to be sent to your Dean’s office and are due in the Provost’s Office on or before June 30, 1998.