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NON-ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT REPORTING FY’19

Learn how to submit completed assessment reports, review assessment templates, and meet SACSCOC expectations for institutional improvement.

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NON-ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT REPORTING FY’19

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  1. NON-ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT REPORTING FY’19 INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ARNITRA HUNTER RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

  2. Session Goals • To understand the “how to” when submitting the completed assessment report. • To re-visit assessment templates to ensure understanding and completion of all necessary components. • To visit SACSCOC expectations and standard documentation criteria (2018 SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation Manual)

  3. Agenda • Assessment Planning/Reporting Cycle • Department Information • Student Learning Outcomes • Means of Assessment • Criteria For Success • Assessment Results • Use of Results to Improve • Major Difficulties • Summary Conclusions • Operational Goals & Objectives • Date Completed • Assessment Template • Question and Answer Session

  4. JSU MISSION AND VISION MISSION: The University produces technologically-advanced, diverse, ethical, global leaders who think critically, address societal problems, and compete effectively. VISION: Building on its historic mission of empowering diverse students to become leaders, Jackson State University will become recognized as a challenging, yet nurturing, state-of-the-art technologically-infused intellectual community. Students and faculty will engage in creative research, participate in interdisciplinary and multi-institutional/ organizational collaborative learning teams and serve the global community.

  5. ASSESSMENT GOAL • Goal —To maintain a culture of assessment at Jackson State University in both academic and non-academic areas whereby improvements in organizational efficiency is observed for administration, faculty, staff, students, and other stakeholders.

  6. WHY IS ASSESSMENT IMPORTANT? • STUDENT LEARNING • Goal Attainment • Decision Making • Accountability • University Accreditation—SACSCOC 8.1 (Student Achievement) and 8.2.a (Student Outcomes: Educational Programs) (2018 SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation Manual) • Improvement in Service to Students

  7. Assessment Planning(Step-By-Step Approach) Step 1Department Name Step 2Fiscal Year Step 3Departmental Mission Step 4Goals & Objective Step 5Means of Assessment Step 6 Criteria for Success

  8. Assessment Reporting • Step 7 Assessment Results • Step 8 Use of Results to Improve • Step 9 Major Difficulties • Step 10 Summary Conclusions • Step 11 Operational Goals & Objectives • Step 12 Date Completed

  9. YOUR ROLE • Involve your department in the entire assessment process • You are the VIP – the key to Student Learning and University SUCCESS • Remember that YOU are the expert in your area.

  10. DEFINING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES • Goals • Broad statements of meaningful expectations, achievable, assessable, and consistent with mission. • Objectives • Brief, clear statements of outcomes, measurable, realistic, achievable, consistent with the goals. • Worded in terms of what the unit will accomplish or what its clients would think, know, or do following the provision of services.

  11. MEANS OF ASSESSMENT • Assessment Measures • How will the success of the outcome be measured? • Multiple Measures • 2 per objective • Use methods that evaluate more than one objective. • Direct Measures (sign-in sheets, reports, projects, data program, etc) • Indirect Measures (surveys, focus groups, interviews, etc.)

  12. CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS • Success Criteria • Standards of Success • Define your goals and targets to reach for each goal. • Include dates for which objectives will be reached • Written in anticipation of desired results

  13. ASSESSMENT REPORTING(STEP BY STEP APPROACH) • Step 7 Assessment Results • Step 8 Use of the Results to Improve Services • Step 9 Major Difficulties • Step 10 Summary Conclusions • Step 11 Operational Goals & Objectives • Step 12 Date Completed

  14. ASSESSMENT RESULTS • Describe the process used to analyze and summarize results. • Document your results! • Does the data fail to meet, meets, or exceeds the criterion for success?

  15. USE OF RESULTS TO IMPROVE SERVICES • Data Results should indicate steps to improve or revise assessment processes. • Results > Criteria for Success • Revise the assessment process to increase success criteria or assessing another outcome/aspect of outcome may be necessary. • Results < Criteria for Success • Specific improvements are necessary.

  16. MAJOR DIFFICULTIES • Major Difficulties: • “Road Blocks” • Different components that may have kept your area from accomplishing your goal.

  17. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS • This section should conclude how the Three Pillars of University Success as it relate to your department. • Student centeredness • Teamwork and Collegiality • The Pursuit of Excellence/Raising the Bar

  18. NEXT YEAR’S OPERATIONAL GOALS & OBJECTIVES

  19. Submission and Review • Assessment Reports FY’19 – July 31, 2019 (Upload-via website)

  20. QUESTIONS ?

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