UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS
Student Learning Outcomes Assessment BA in Theatre Revised: February 2009
Intended Objectives/Outcomes
Assessment Criteria and Procedures
Expanded Statement of
Institutional Purpose
MISSION STATEMENT:
To provide a quality, undergraduate,
theatre arts education.
Direct Assessment Tools:
1) Audition / Portfolio Review: Theatre
majors and minors will be evaluated at
semester auditions with written comments
by directors/faculty. Portfolios of Theatre
majors and minors will be evaluated with
comments by faculty. All evaluations will
be included in students’ files in
department office and available for
students to review.
GOAL STATEMENT:
To assure that our graduates are
adequately prepared to succeed in the job
market in their chosen area of expertise.
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Students will develop their oral and
written communication skills.
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Students will develop their conceptual
and artistic abilities.
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Students will develop practical skills
in their area of concentration:
performance, film, directing, design &
technical theatre.
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Students will develop their
collaborative skills and leadership
abilities.
2) Final Creative Presentations:
Evaluations will be based upon written
comments made by professor during final
class presentations at the end of each
semester.
3) Faculty Advisor Evaluation:
Advisor Evaluations will be based upon
written comments made by faculty advisor
during student’s final semester. This
evaluation should encompass the student’s
entire time at Theatre UAF, addressing
student’s strengths and areas that need
further development.
Implementation
(what, when, who)
Direct Assessment Tools:
1) Audition/ Portfolio Review Evaluation
Form:
 Beginning of each semester.
 Form distributed to faculty boxes by
department coordinator.
 Form to be filled out by acting,
directing, and design faculty
members.
 Student workers enter data into
spreadsheet tracking scores.
 Evaluation form kept in student file in
department office.
 Faculty conduct an annual spring
meeting addressing data collected and
implementing any curricular changes
deemed necessary.
2) Final Creative Presentations Evaluation
Form:
 End of each semester.
 Form distributed to faculty boxes by
department coordinator.
 Form to be filed out by professor of
class.
 Student workers enter data into
spreadsheet tracking scores.
 Evaluation form kept in student file in
department office.
 Faculty conduct an annual spring
meeting addressing data collected and
implementing any curricular changes
deemed necessary.
3) Faculty Advisor Evaluation Form:
 Student’s final semester.
 Form distributed to faculty boxes by
department coordinator.
 Form/ essay to be completed by
student’s faculty advisor.
Indirect Assessment Tools:
1) Alumni Survey:
Alumni will be surveyed about their
involvement and employment in the
professional world, their reflections on
Theatre UAF’s preparation of them for
that field, and their opinion of their
educational experience at Theatre UAF.
2) Production Survey:
Each Main-stage production (Theatre
UAF), Winter Shorts production (Student
Drama Association), Famous for Fifteen
production (SDA), or other show
produced by Theatre UAF will have a
post-show production survey to be filled
out by all cast and crew involved in the
production.
3) Class Questionnaires:
Incoming Class Assessment forms
evaluate students’ knowledge prior to
introductory level classes in each
emphasis (Fundamentals of Acting, Basic
Stagecraft, Directing, Let’s Make a
Movie) at the beginning of each semester.
Outgoing Class Assessment Forms
evaluate students’ knowledge at the end of
course.
Indirect Assessment Tools:
1) Alumni Survey:
 Alumni surveys will be conducted
every year in the fall administered by
department coordinator.
 Email lists will be stored in Alumni
database kept by department
coordinator.
 Student workers enter data into
spreadsheet tracking responses.
 Faculty conduct an annual spring
meeting addressing data collected and
implementing any curricular changes
deemed necessary.
2) Production Survey:
 Production surveys will be
administered by department
coordinator at each production’s Post
Mortem Town Meeting after the show
closes.
 Student workers enter data into
spreadsheet tracking responses.
 Faculty conduct an annual spring
meeting addressing data collected and
implementing any curricular changes
deemed necessary.
3) Class Questionnaires:
 Form for each class kept on
department coordinator’s computer
and distributed to faculty boxes at
beginning and end of each semester.
 Questionnaires administered by
faculty member teaching each course.
 Individual faculty members review
data collected in their classes and
implement any curricular changes
deemed necessary.