Annual Assessment Checklist
Each unit at George Fox University should do the following in Improve every year.
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Review Mission
Program > Mission
Ensure your mission remains meaningful, accurate and motivating. Everything your program does should flow from it.
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Enter Annual Update
Plan & Results > Annual Update
Enter a paragraph or two summarizing major factors impacting student learning or program effectiveness in the past year.
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Enter Results of Assessment Tools
Plan & Results > Results
Open each assessment tool and enter a concise summary of results. To submit extensive data or description, upload a Related Document.
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Analyze Results and Determine Actions
Plan & Results > Results
This is the single most important aspect of assessment. Discuss assessment results with colleagues.
- What does the data tell you?
- What curricular, service or other internal changes will allow you to better meet Targets in the future?
- Should your assessment plan be modified (see #5)?
Enter this info in TracDat.
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Adjust Outcomes and/or Assessment Tools
Plan & Results > Assessment Plan
Assessment plans are malleable. Common reasons for making changes include:
- Easily meeting, or woefully missing, the assessment tool target year after year
- Recognizing that a program outcome is missing from the assessment plan, or has become obsolete
- Existing assessment tools are not adequate to fully meaure whether an outcome is being met
- Need to show how program outcomes map to the univeristy mission
- You don't care about a result, or about the whole assessment plan; if this is the case, what do you care about, and how might you measure it?
