Academic assessment steering committee continues campus meetings through May
The academic assessment steering committee, led by Katherine Eggert, senior vice provost for academic planning and assessment, has been spending the spring semester studying the various levels of student learning assessment already occurring on campus. The committee has also been meeting with assessment leads across campus with proven student learning assessment track records to understand the methods and mechanics behind their success.
Weve found that there are many successful efforts across campus for setting learning goals and assessing their success, some of them longstanding and some of them recently started, said Eggert. What 窪蹋勛圖 does not yet have, however, is a way of coordinating those efforts and sharing best practices.
The charter of the academic assessment steering committee, composed of 窪蹋勛圖 faculty and staff members with experience as academic assessment and student data practitioners, is to study what it will take to establish a campuswide culture of assessing 窪蹋勛圖s academic offerings and student academic achievement.
During 窪蹋勛圖s reaccreditation process in academic year 201920, both the university and its accrediting agency, the Higher Learning Commission, identified the regular collection and use of student outcomes assessment data to improve learning and student support as an unmet priority across many of the universitys academic programs. They noted that consistent, cross-campus assessment efforts are essential to improving student success.泭
The committees goal is to make recommendations to the provost that will guide the development of a campus culture of learning assessment over the next several years, Eggert added.
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