AUNE Office of Academic Assessment
2012-13 Academic Year Status Report
February 1, 2014
The AUNE Office of Academic Assessment was established in 2010 to foster student
learning through the systematic process of gathering and analyzing information. AUNE
academic programs submit Annual Program Reviews reporting on their assessment
activity. Programs collect and analyze evidence of student learning and program
effectiveness making program decisions based on that evidence.
Analysis of the 2012-13 Annual Program Reports indicates that all programs have quality
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) linked to the university mission and mapped to their
program curriculum. A variety of measures are used for assessing programs and outcomes,
including:
 Student papers, journals, projects and presentations
 Focus groups
 Advisor meetings
 Test results
 Alumni and student surveys
 Advisee consultations
 Exit interviews
 Qualifying examination portfolios
 Internship Supervision Checklists
 Clinical and Internship observations
Examples of closing the loop on academic assessment include:
 Management will reintegrate environmental topics and studies into the Introduction
to Sustainability course. Case studies, examples, and integration of systems thinking
to environmental issues will introduce students to environmental topics early in the
MBA curriculum.
 Applied Behavioral Analysis is offering a free supervision course to faculty, current
supervisors and potential supervisors.
 Autism Spectrum Disorders assessed and confirmed students capacity to advocate
for innovation and change.
 Marriage and Family Therapy Phd will reinstitute the employer survey that has
been developed as a way of gathering data for assessing SLOs.
 Dance Movement Therapy showed more clinical video clip vignettes in class before
the students wrote their own assessments. Having the opportunity to observe more
clinical data improved the students’ understanding of the notation process.
 Elementary Education Teacher Certification examined completed internship
supervisor checklists resulting in revised supervision guidelines and rubric
definitions for how students may show evidence of meeting a standard.
 Experienced Educators program examined adjunct faculty experiences and
identified a need to provide more campus-wide support for successful “onboarding” of new adjunct faculty, especially technology orientation.
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Waldorf will offer an Organizational Integrity course. A special Antioch Institute on
working with Parents is under consideration.
Environmental Studies decreased the number of required core courses from four to
three for all ESMS students; now, students must choose three of the four Core
courses, but are not required to take all four.
Clinical Psychology reviewed and confirmed students’ skills in assessment and
diagnosis of problems, capabilities, and issues associated with individuals, groups,
and/or organizations.
Academic assessment and reporting are well-established processes at AUNE. The newly
revised Antioch University Annual Program Report was modeled after the AUNE report and
vetted by the university Assessment Resource Team (ART). This new university reporting
format will remain stable for the foreseeable future. In 2012-13 the Environmental Studies
department participated in the Comprehensive Review process with other AU
environmental studies programs documenting the strengths and challenges facing the
program and resulting in a strategic plan for faculty development.
An ongoing challenge for most AUNE programs is accessing and comparing multiple years
of data. The university is still establishing university norms for persistence and graduation
data. AU will participate in an HLC Institute to further this goal. In the next few years AUNE
programs will begin to revisit Student Learning Outcomes that have recently been
assessed, perhaps leading to longitudinal analysis and results. A worthy, future, AUNE
institutional goal would be to establish an assessment culture across student service
departments.
The AUNE Director of Academic Assessment and the AU Assessment Resource Team have
worked together in the last year to collaborate on the HLC self-study, co-author a white
paper on student rating of courses and instructors, develop university-level academic
assessment web pages, and initiate a review of rubric use across the university. These
efforts are focused on increasing institutional understanding and implementation of
academic assessment.
Tom Julius
Director, Office of Academic Assessment