Meeting of the
Provost’s Assessment Advisory Committee
October 12, 2004
Working Draft
Institutional Assessment Plan
October 12, 2004
Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at
understanding and improving student learning (or
other services/functions)
•Making our expectations explicit and public;
•Setting appropriate criteria and high standards for
learning quality (or unit goals/objectives);
•Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting
evidence to determine how well performance matches
those expectations and standards; and
•Using the resulting information to document, explain,
and improve performance.
(Adapted from Thomas A. Angelo, AAHE Bulletin,
November 1995, p.7)
Highlights of the Draft Institutional Assessment Plan
Foundation on pre-existing activity
•Program review process in place
•Approved General Education Assessment Plan
•Good track record regarding assessment of
overall educational outcomes
•Many University-wide academic programs and
non-academic administrative units already
engaged in assessment activities
Highlights of the Draft Institutional Assessment Plan
New Procedures – Guidelines – Reporting Protocol
•All academic and academic-related Universitywide academic programs need to develop and
implement formal assessment plans
•All non-academic administrative support units that
influence the student experience need to develop
and implement formal assessment plans
•Ideally, all units with implications for the
achievement of the University’s mission and goals
should develop and implement assessment plans
Highlights of the Draft Institutional Assessment Plan
New Procedures – Guidelines – Reporting Protocol
•Vice Presidents/Deans responsible for ensuring
that their units develop assessment plans
•Vice Presidents/Deans responsible for
assessment plan implementation in their units
•Assessment plans will be shared with relevant
University Senate Councils
•All units (academic and non-academic) will
prepare annual assessment activity reports for
their Vice President or Dean.
•Assessment activity reports will be shared
with relevant University Senate Councils
Next Steps:
1.Review the Working Draft
• Comments/Suggestions to Bruce Szelest by
October 29
2.Working Groups to meet within two weeks (by
October 26)
• Mapping Group
o VP reps, Council reps
• Group for Linking Assessment with Planning and
Budgeting
o VP and Dean reps, UPC chair, others?
3.Meet again 2nd week in November for further
discussion?
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