Colorado School of Mines
Annual Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes Report
For Academic Year 2011-12 Undergraduate Programs
The purpose of assessment is to promote excellence in student learning and educational practices by
fostering a campus culture of self-evaluation and improvement. The annual assessment report enables
CSM to document engagement in continuous improvement efforts. Provide responses to the following six
questions/items and email this completed document to kmschnei@mines.edu by September 14. Feel free
to expand the tables below as needed.
The Assessment Committee will provide written feedback in response to the department annual report,
using this rubric as the basis for their feedback. The annual report will also be useful for the reaccreditation efforts related to ABET and the Higher Learning Commission. Components of this annual
report that are specific to ABET re-accreditation are noted below.
Department/Program:
Person Submitting This Report:
Phone:
Email address:
1. List your program objectives (broad statements that describe what students are
expected to attain within a few years of graduation) and describe the assessment
methods/measures for each program objective. (ABET Criterion 2B and 4A 1-3.)
Program Objective 1:
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Program Objective 2:
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
1
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Program Objective 3:
Program Objective 4:
Program Objective 5:
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
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2. List your student outcomes (specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, and timely
statements which describe what students will know and be able to do by the time of
graduation) and describe assessment methods/measures for each student outcome. (ABET
Criterion 3A and 4B 1-3.)
Student Outcome 1:
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Student Outcome 2:
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing
of assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing
of assessment
Student Outcome 3:
3
Student Outcome 4:
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Direct assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Indirect assessment
measure(s)/method(s)
Performance
criteria
Population/sample/
recruitment
strategies
Frequency/timing of
assessment
Student Outcome 5:
3. Map the student outcomes to courses and to the ABET outcomes. (View ABET outcomes.) If
your assessment plan only includes the ABET outcomes and you have no additional outcomes, you
do not need to complete table #2.
Table 1
Courses
Student outcome 1
Student outcome 2
Student outcome 3
Student outcome 4
Student outcome 5
Table 2
A
B
C
ABET Outcomes
D E F G H
Student outcome 1
Student outcome 2
Student outcome 3
Student outcome 4
Student outcome 5
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4. Identify the assessment activities that your program has implemented in the past year.
Direct assessment methods:
Indirect assessment methods:
5. Describe how you have shared assessment results with faculty and explain how the faculty
have used assessment results to improve student learning. Describe the specific actions you
have taken or will take to facilitate students’ attainment of the program objectives and student
outcomes. (ABET Criterion 4C.) You may wish to list your changes in this format (for ease of
transferring to the ABET report) but it is not required.
Action Taken:
Basis for Action:
Date:
Results:
Action Taken:
Basis for Action:
Date:
Results:
Action Taken:
Basis for Action:
Date:
Results:
6. Describe any changes that you are planning to make in your assessment plan for next year.
7. Describe how you have used the feedback from the assessment committee in response to last
year’s report to improve your assessment efforts.
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