Assessment Training

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

Yearly Program Assessment (YPA) Training

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

 

Strategic Plan Training

Slides With Step-By-Step Guidance

Report Action Item Status in SPOL pptx with all objectives and notes , video

  •  Objectives
    • Identify action items that require reporting pdf
    • Translate strategic plan terminology to SPOL Planning terminology pdf
    • Update the implementation status of an action item in SPOL pdf
    • Write a description of the implementation status of an action item in SPOL pdf
  • Target audience
    • University leaders (President, VPAA, AVPAA, VPAF, VPSA, VPEMO, VPA, AD) who are responsible for reporting the implementation status of MiSU's Strategic Plan 2022-2025 tasks
  • Prerequisites
    • Strategic plan action items have been entered into the Planning module in SPOL​
    • Information relevant to the implementation status of action items is available in a suitable format for reporting in SPOL

Report Outcome Findings in SPOL pptx with all objectives and notes

  •  Objectives
    • Identify quantitative indicators that are due for reporting pdf​
    • Translate strategic plan terminology to SPOL Assessment module terminology pdf​
    • Enter findings for quantitative indicators in SPOL pdf
  • Target audience
    • University leaders (President, VPAA, AVPAA, VPAF, VPSA, VPEMO, VPA, AD) who are responsible for reporting the implementation status of MiSU's Strategic Plan 2022-2025 tasks
  • Prerequisites
    • Strategic plan indicators have been entered into the Assessment module in SPOL​
    • Data are available in a suitable format for reporting in SPOL

Tools

Strategic Planning Online (SPOL) Log In

SPOL YPA Plan Template docx

SPOL YPA Plan Template for Certificate Programs docx