Assessment Training

This page provides training resources related to assessment planning and reporting.

Yearly Program Assessment (YPA) Training

Programs Requiring a YPA

YPA requirement flowchart png

Annual YPA Tasks

YPA project plan docx

Program Assessment Manual

Minot State University Program Assessment Manual pdf

• Purpose
  • Establish a common language for program assessment
  • Establish a common understanding of YPA requirements
  • Provide guidance and tools to assist academic and co-curricular programs with compiling the details that they need for meeting the YPA planning and reporting requirements
• Objectives
  • Write a mission statement for a program
  • Write student learning goals for a program 
  • Write student learning outcomes for a program 
  • Write operational goals for a program
  • Write operational outcomes for a program 
  • Describe measures that are utilized to assess outcomes
  • Describe criteria for success on measures
  • Report findings based on the established criteria for success
  • Write narrative descriptions of intended assessment results 
  • Write narrative descriptions of actual assessment results
  • Write narrative descriptions of the use of assessment results
• Target audience
  • Academic and co-curricular program YPA authors and other personnel supporting the YPA process

Slides With Step-By-Step Guidance

Create a YPA Plan pptx with all objectives and notes

• Objectives
  • Write a mission statement pdf
  • Write a student learning goal (SLG) pdf
  • Write a student learning outcome (SLO) pdf
  • Describe a measure of an SLO pdf
  • Describe criteria for success on a measure pdf 
• Target audience
  • Academic and co-curricular program YPA authors and other personnel supporting the YPA process
• Prerequisites
  • Program is responsible for submitting a YPA

Enter a YPA Plan in SPOL pptx with all objectives and notes

• Objectives
  • Enter a student learning goal (SLG) in SPOL pdf
  • Enter a student learning outcome (SLO) in SPOL pdf
  • Enter a measure in SPOL pdf
  • Enter a set of criteria in SPOL pdf 
• Target audience
  • Academic and co-curricular program YPA authors and other personnel support the YPA process
• Prerequisites
  • Program has been created in SPOL
  • YPA plan is available in a format that is suitable for entering in SPOL

Report YPA SLO Findings and Narrative Results in SPOL pptx with all objectives and notes

• Objectives
  • Enter assessment findings for student learning outcomes (SLOs) in SPOL pdf
  • Explain assessment results of SLOs in SPOL pdf
  • Run assessment reports in SPOL pdf
• Target audience
  • Academic and co-curricular program YPA authors and other personnel support the YPA process
• Prerequisites
  • YPA plan has been entered in SPOL
  • Data are available in a suitable format for reporting in SPOL

Assessment Presentations

Develop Your YPA pdf

Mixed Feelings About Assessment pdf

Cultivating Graduate Level Assessment Skills Through an A+ Inquiry Thesis Alternative pdf

Evaluating Solutions for Improving Program Assessment pdf

Tools

Strategic Planning Online (SPOL) Log In

SPOL YPA Plan Template docx

SPOL YPA Plan Template for Certificate Programs docx