Evaluating Our Assessment Program
Evaluating Our Assessment Program. Spring 2004. What is assessment?. Assessment is the ongoing process of understanding and improving student learning. How do we assess students at PCCUA?. Instructor-created classroom assessment tools Program-level assessment Student Surveys
Evaluating Our Assessment Program
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Evaluating Our Assessment Program Spring 2004
What is assessment? Assessment is the ongoing process of understanding and improving student learning.
How do we assess students at PCCUA? • Instructor-created classroom assessment tools • Program-level assessment • Student Surveys • Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey • Graduation survey • Standardized testing • ASSET, COMPASS, CAAP, NCLAC
To benchmark our progress To help create goals and action plans To compare perceptions held by different groups at PCCUA To provide data for our self-study Why are we evaluating our assessment program?
Levels of Implementation and Assessment Matrix (Evaluation Tool) • Created by Dr. Cecilia Lopez and the Higher Learning Commission (NCA) • Often used by NCA site-visit teams
Three Levels of Progress • Level 1—Planning • Efforts are in their infancy, progressing slower than desired, or have stalled • Level 2—Emerging • Efforts reflect the institution’s values, and progress is being made to improve and build on these efforts. • Level 3—Maturing • Efforts are structured, systematic, ongoing, and sustainable.
Levels of Progress: Scoring Information • Within each level, rate the degree of progress in that level: • Planning—1, 2, 3 • Emerging—4, 5, 6 • Maturing—7, 8, 9 • Provide only onescore per characteristic. • Faculty and Professional Staff will evaluate the assessment program as a whole – institution wide. • Faculty will also evaluate assessment within their division ( Deans will conduct the division evaluation)
Survey Says……. • Results from the Spring 2003 Survey were posted in the Assessment Newsletter and posted to the Assessment Web Page. The results established a benchmark for Evaluating the Assessment Program.
Survey Says…….. • The results from this survey will provide additional data that will be added to the self-study and the Assessment Web Page.