Workshop for Annual Program Assessment • Explain the reasons why we do Program Assessment at UWSP. • Understand the rationale for changing how Program Assessment is reported. • Recognize the parts of an assessment report. • Know how to get assistance and find resources to help with Program Assessment. • Revel in the knowledge that Assessment reporting obligations for your departments will be less onerous. By the time we are done this morning, you will be able to:
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Workshop for Annual Program Assessment
• Explain the reasons why we do Program Assessment at UWSP.• Understand the rationale for changing how Program Assessment is
reported.• Recognize the parts of an assessment report.• Know how to get assistance and find resources to help with Program
Assessment.• Revel in the knowledge that Assessment reporting obligations for
your departments will be less onerous.
By the time we are done this morning, you will be able to:
Why We do Program Assessment at UWSP1. Because we, as an institution, can always do better, and we strive,
for the sake of our students, to help more students achieve more.
2. Because we are required to document that #1 is true for the HLC.Theinstitutiondemonstratesacommitmenttoeducationalachievementandimprovementthroughongoingassessmentofstudentlearning.
How We Have Been Doing Program Assessment• Each Department had a
5-year Assessment schedule in harmony with its 10-year Department Review• Every five years,
assessment report on all learning outcomes & a presentation• annual Check-In
• Meta-Assessment by the Assessment Subcommittee of the Academic Affairs Committee
20191. Biology
2. Education
3. MathematicalSciences
4. Philosophy5. Religious Studies6. Psychology7. Social Work8. Sociology
How We Have Been Doing Program Assessment
• This protocol is not meeting our needs because 5 years is too long between reports• too infrequent to be front-burner’d• assessment memory is shorter than
five years• complex and cumbersome
• And it has been unclear what has been needed/wanted and why• Starting Now: Annual Assessment
Reporting — 1 PLO per year
From 2011-2018, 23 of 43 Program Assessment Reports required follow-up reporting.
