Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment Certificate
Outcomes and Measures
Professional
Standards
NASPA/ACPA
Competency
Areas Document
– See
https://www.nasp
a.org/images/upl
oads/main/Profes
sional_Competen
cies.pdf for
details
Certificate
Outcome Areas
Effectively
Engaging in Data
Management and
Reporting for
Transforming
Organizations and
Improving Access,
Equity, and Student
Success
And Association
for Institutional
Research (AIR)
Primary Task
Analysis – See
http://www.airwe
b.org/Education
AndEvents/Publi
cations/Documen
ts/126.pdf for
more details
NASPA/ACPA
Competency
Areas Document
See
https://www.nasp
a.org/images/upl
Effectively
Engaging in
Planning and
Accreditation for
Transforming
Organizations and
Course Outcomes
• Navigate extracts
from their
institutional databases
and national
databases to
determine which
variables will help
them inform
decisions;
• Write descriptive and
inferential analysis
using variables from
their institutional and
national databases;
• Draft reports and
presentations for
various types of
audiences for various
types of purposes;
• Determine what
variables may need to
be collected and
stored in main
institutional databases
as opposed to
departmental
databases in order to
answer pertinent
institutional
questions;
• Facilitate the request
for and interpretation
of data needed for
specific decisionmaker’s questions;
• Identify how data may
be misinterpreted and
identify presentation
and reporting
techniques that may
diminish the
opportunities for data
misinterpretation;
• Identify and propose
solutions for data
analysis, reporting,
and use of data
ethical dilemmas
• Apply self-awareness
and self-regulation
practices towards
one’s own leadership
strengths and identify
areas of continued
Assessment
Measures
Reflective
Student Learning
Portfolio
Contents,
Student’s SelfAssessment, Exit
Survey, Rubric
Evaluations of
Reflective
Learning
Portfolios
Impact
Measures
Employer
Survey, Alumni
Survey,
Community
Partner Rubric
Scores of
Reflective
Student
Learning
Portfolio
Reflective
Student Learning
Portfolio
Contents,
Student’s SelfAssessment, Exit
Employer
Survey, Alumni
Survey,
Community
Partner Rubric
Scores of
Working Draft – September 30, 2014 reflecting ongoing feedback from students,
faculty, alumni, employers, and professionals in the field
Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment Certificate
Outcomes and Measures
oads/main/Profes
sional_Competen
cies.pdf for
details
And Association
for Institutional
Research (AIR)
Primary Task
Analysis – See
http://www.airwe
b.org/Education
AndEvents/Publi
cations/Documen
ts/126.pdf for
more details
Improving Access,
Equity, and Student
Success
NASPA/ACPA
Competency
Areas Document
See
https://www.nasp
a.org/images/upl
oads/main/Profes
sional_Competen
cies.pdf for
details
a And
Association for
Institutional
Research (AIR)
Primary Task
Analysis – See
http://www.airwe
b.org/Education
AndEvents/Publi
cations/Documen
ts/126.pdf for
more details
Effectively
Utilizing
Assessment and
Program Review
Used for
Transforming
Organizations and
to Improve Access,
Equity, and Student
Success
development
• Communicate ideas
and concepts
effectively
• Work collaboratively
with diverse group
members in diverse
settings
• Connect faculty or
administrator
produced data with
external benchmark
requirements and
strategic planning;
• Identify variables
gathered from preassessment or input
data, as well as
institutional and
national databases
that can be used for
enrollment planning
and planning
interventions in order
to influence retention
and graduation rates;
• Define outcomesbased assessment
program review
(OAPR) and
articulate the purpose
for OAPR, in
particular the
assessment of student
learning and
development;
• Identify and critique
the benefits of
various research
methodologies,
national surveys and
instruments, and
national benchmarks
used in enrollment
management and
OAPR;
• Identify realistic
solutions to the
challenges
encountered when
implementing OAPR
at an institutional
level;
• Engage in scientific
methods and the
outcomes-based
Survey, Rubric
Evaluations of
Reflective
Learning
Portfolios
Reflective
Student
Learning
Portfolio
Reflective
Student Learning
Portfolio
Contents,
Student’s SelfAssessment, Exit
Survey, Rubric
Evaluations of
Reflective
Learning
Portfolios
Employer
Survey, Alumni
Survey,
Community
Partner Rubric
Scores of
Reflective
Student
Learning
Portfolio
Working Draft – September 30, 2014 reflecting ongoing feedback from students,
faculty, alumni, employers, and professionals in the field
Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment Certificate
Outcomes and Measures
assessment program
review process to
assess, practice,
examine results, and
promote sound
decision-making;
• Identify ethical
leadership and social
justice issues in
assessment, planning,
and institutional
research and propose
solutions and
strategies to address
these issues
Working Draft – September 30, 2014 reflecting ongoing feedback from students,
faculty, alumni, employers, and professionals in the field