Departmental/Unit
Self Assessment and
Action Plan
Department or Unit Name: ART
Program Name: Studio Art,
Art History,
Art
Education
NCA Level 2 Assessment
Criteria
Meets
Level 2
Criteria?
Y or N
Individual Completing Form: Prof. Richard Schneider
Date: 9-25-02
Action Steps to Get to Level 2
Timetable for Action Steps (see
base NCA time chart)
1. Goals YES
* The Program has specific
student learning or student
service goals. These goals
reflect the discipline or service
area professional standards.
2. Outcomes YES
* Outcomes that are directly
measurable are defined for each
goal.
3. Research Completed YES
Students have taken our Pre and
Post Tests each year since 1995.
* Research is systematically
conducted to evaluate success or
failure in achieving student
learning or service outcomes.
4. Findings YES
We feel our sampling is still too small We might have a more acceptable
but we have made some curricular
sampling size by Spring 2003.
recommendations to the Department
based on some assumptions on test
results.
* Research results are
analyzed and interpreted;
findings are determined.
5. Review Process YES
Curricular changes were
recommended to require increased
coursework in all three areas.
Art Department to review data by
Fall 2003.
College of Arts and Sciences
approved our recommendations to
increase the semester hours in all
three area.
Art Department could submit
curricular changes, if data warrants
it, to the committee by Spring 2004
* Findings are discussed and
reviewed by appropriate groups
and individuals;
recommendations are made for
action.
6. Actions YES
* Recommendations are acted
upon.
7. Improvement NO
* Actions result in documented
improvements in student learning
or services.
The curricular changes just started in Students under new curriculum are
Summer of 2002.
just beginning pre-tests, will be at
least four years before we have
post-test data.
Departmental/Unit
Self Assessment and
Action Plan
Department or Unit Name: ART
Program Name: Graduate
Art History
NCA Level 2 Assessment
Criteria
Meets
Level 2
Criteria?
Y or N
Individual Completing Form: Prof. Richard Schneider
Date: 9-25-02
Action Steps to Get to Level 2
1. Goals YES
* The Program has specific
student learning or student
service goals. These goals
reflect the discipline or service
area professional standards.
2. Outcomes YES
Students comprehend the
relationship between history and art
through a comprehensive study of
Art History
* Outcomes that are directly
measurable are defined for each
goal.
3. Research Completed YES
* Research is systematically
conducted to evaluate success or
failure in achieving student
learning or service outcomes.
Students have taken our Pre and
Post Tests each year since 1995.
Timetable for Action Steps (see
base NCA time chart)
4. Findings YES
Very few students have taken the
We might have a more acceptable
Pretest and Post test sets. Hence the sampling size by Spring 2005.
sampling size is still too small to get
an accurate assessment.
* Research results are
analyzed and interpreted;
findings are determined.
5. Review Process YES
Art Department to review data by
Fall 2004.
* Findings are discussed and
reviewed by appropriate groups
and individuals;
recommendations are made for
action.
6. Actions NO
Small number of students.
* Recommendations are acted
upon.
7. Improvement NO
* Actions result in documented
improvements in student learning
or services.
Sample size too small.
About five years minimum to get a
sampling.