Institutional Effectiveness & Analytics Support of the Academic Program Review Self-Study
Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics (IEA) formerly Institutional Research & Effectiveness can provide some data support for programs completing a self-study through the Academic Review Process. There are five distinct sources of support that IEA provides to departments, schools or programs completing their self-studies:
- Academic Program Review Bobcat Insights (OBI) Reports
- IEA Website Sources
- Analytics & Decision Support (ADS)
- Assessment Clearinghouse
- OHIO Outcomes Dashboard
Academic Program OBI Reports
IEA has designed specific reports in OBI to provide data support for the self-study. These reports are built from our data sets used for our official reporting (final numbers that do not change) and formatted for the current seven years of reporting for the self-study and are updated each year for this process. Current reports include degrees awarded, class completion rates, class headcount enrollment and credit hours, program student enrollment and faculty and employee headcount. Reports are not static and provide some dynamic reporting abilities such as but not limited to pulling in demographic information such as campus, race/ethnicity, sex, and class rank. https://www.ohio.edu/iea/interactive-reports
IEA Website Static Reports
IEA produces the Compendium of Planning Information static reports which provide descriptive data on various indicators for colleges and department/schools. The Compendium is updated annually and is available in two formats – one organized by type of indicator (section) and one organized by college and department/school (profile). It contains seven years of the most current data available. https://www.ohio.edu/iea/university-data/compendium
Analytics & Decision Support (ADS)
ADS is an analytic platform that has transactional data (data that is updated nightly from Peoplesoft and can change). Access to these dashboards requires authorized permission, licensing, and user training. Licenses to access ADS are limited, but all chairs and school directors do have access. The Admissions dashboard in ADS provides insights into applicants and key metrics of the admissions cycle. There are also dashboards related to student enrollment, student success and faculty load. https://www.ohio.edu/iea/interactive-reports
Assessment Clearinghouse
The Program Learning Outcomes Assessment portion of the Assessment Clearinghouse is the centralized collection and storage of program learning outcomes assessment reporting for the University that was developed in response to Higher Learning Commission feedback during our 2015 Comprehensive Review. https://www.ohio.edu/iea/assessment/programs The Assessment Clearinghouse process was designed to work in partnership with the Academic Program Review process. Academic programs provide annual program learning outcomes assessment reports to the Assessment Clearinghouse, which enables the programs to be prepared for seven years of student learning outcomes assessment reporting when it is time for their self-study. If programs have annually provided their reports to the Assessment Clearinghouse the programs can find the answers to self-study questions in the corresponding reporting component of the Assessment Clearinghouse as mapped in this table:
Student Success & OHIO Outcomes
Retention, graduation, and outcomes all provide indicators with regards to student achievement at Ohio University. Retention and graduation rates as well as time-to-graduation reporting by academic program for all undergraduate programs is available in the Retention & Student Success Dashboard in OBI https://www.ohio.edu/iea/interactive-reports
IEA has developed an OHIO Outcomes dashboard to track and report the outcomes of all our graduates about one year after graduation. This dashboard contains longitudinal results of tracking our graduates through multiple data sources to report employment and further education information on each graduating cohort. https://www.ohio.edu/iea/student-data/outcomes
IEA Staff Support
While our data sources are designed to be self-service, IEA also offers staff support for the Academic Program Review Self-Study process. Whether, you have questions about any of our data sources or need assistance on using one of the IEA OBI program review reports please reach out to Joni Frost, Senior Director for Institutional Effectiveness by email or Microsoft teams at jfrost@ohio.edu.
Additional Resources:
IEA Interactive Reports & OBI Dashboards