Assessment Training

Available in the Institutional Assessment Team

• Programs requiring a YPA (flowchart)
• Annual YPA tasks
• Program Assessment Manual
  • 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

Available in the Institutional Assessment Team

Create a YPA Plan

• Objectives
  • Write a mission statement
  • Write a student learning goal (SLG)
  • Write a student learning outcome (SLO)
  • Describe a measure of an SLO
  • Describe criteria for success on a measure
• 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

• Objectives
  • Enter a student learning goal (SLG) in SPOL
  • Enter a student learning outcome (SLO) in SPOL
  • Enter a measure in SPOL
  • Enter a set of criteria in SPOL
• 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

• Objectives
  • Enter assessment findings for student learning outcomes (SLOs) in SPOL
  • Explain assessment results of SLOs in SPOL
  • Run assessment reports in SPOL
• 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

Available in the Institutional Assessment Team

• Develop Your YPA
• Mixed Feelings About Assessment
• Cultivating Graduate Level Assessment Skills Through an A+ Inquiry Thesis Alternative
• Evaluating Solutions for Improving Program Assessment

Tools

Strategic Planning Online (SPOL) Log In

Available in the Institutional Assessment Team

• SPOL YPA Plan Template
• SPOL YPA Plan Template for Certificate Programs