Center of Excellence in Learning & Teaching – USIU

STRUCTURE OF THE ASSESSEMENT REPORT

The annual assessment report is a summary of the findings of that year’s assessment of one or more of the Program Learning Outcomes. It describes the process of the assessment; presents the findings, and discusses the significance of these findings to the curriculum content, the faculty, the support staff, and the students in the program; and outlines the changes perceived as necessary

1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

1.1Brief introduction and overview of the program

Some brief background information to the program mission learning outcomes etc.

1.2 Response to Recommendations of Earlier Program Assessment Activities

Briefly outline the findings of previous program assessments and the program improvements that have resulted from them

2.CURRENT LEARNING OUTCOMES UNDER ASSESSMENT

2.1Briefly describe the cognitive/knowledge, behavioral/skills and/or affective/values expressed the learning outcomes you are assessing.

2.2Learning Criteria: Explain the characteristics in students’ work that would show that the outcome are being achieved.

2.3Standards For Your Program’s Success: State what you consider satisfactory success in student achievement.

3. THE PROCESS

  1. Evidence: Describe summative evidence you analyzed: the source, the collection procedures, the population & the size of the sample.
  2. Assessment Tool/Method: Describe the evidence collection procedure, the sampling, the analysis and the tools/methods used for this
  3. Assessment Process: Describe assessment process: methods employed to ascertain validity etc.
  4. Participants: List participants who assessed evidence.

4. FINDINGS

a)Results of Student Learning: Present the results of the analysis of theevidence of student teaching (tables, graphs, charts.

b)Achieving Standards: Explain whether your programis achieving its standards for success in the learning assessed.

c)Discussion of Results for ProgramImprovement: Provide a discussion of what you’ve discovered about student learning and the significance of these findings for your program.

d)Participants in Discussing/Reviewing Results: List the members of the assessment team (indicate full/adjunct faculty & attach sample minutes).

e)Communication of Results: Briefly summarise the discussion during the meeting to share the findings withother stakeholders (attach minutes as evidence

5. PLAN TO IMPROVE YOUR PROGRAM

Briefly describe the improvements that you suggest for the curriculum as a result of this assessment and provide a schedule of activities towards this improvement

6.REFLECTION ON ASSESSMENT PROCESS

Explain what you consider the strengths of this year’s assessment and what you would like to improve in your existing assessment process as you plan next year’s assessment.

7.PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR’S ASSESSMENT

List the PLO(s) (the cognitive/knowledge, behavioral/skills and/or affective/values) you plan to assess in the year academic year.

8. APPENDIX

  1. Current assessment plan
  2. Samples of students’ work analyzed: representative of all the levels of the criteria
  3. Assessment tools/methods used to assess evidence (Rubrics)
  4. Evidence that the dean and all fulltime faculty have participated in reviewing the content of this report.
  5. Sample minutes of meetings

October 2010