AQIP and ACBSP

1. AQIP and ACBSP Two Responses from One Assessment System April 10, 2010

2. Background • Who are we? • Why are we here? • What can you expect? • Single system to meet multiple accreditations • AQIP process in operation • Insights from a reviewer • Question and discussion

3. Sinclair Community College • Extra large comprehensive community college in Dayton, Ohio • More than 26,000 students (14,800+ FTE) • Three learning centers and one campus center • University transfer and career programs • Workforce training and full-service conference center

4. Various Accrediting AgenciesHave Similar Interests • Defining standards • Compliance to standards • Assessing goals and results Single System

5. The Sinclair “Alphabet Soup” Prereqs OBOR HB 95 $$$ TAGs CMT CADE CAS OTM TAC/ABET ACBSP FTE AtD NCA ACS OANs NADE NLNAC AQIP NASAD

6. The Creation of an AQIP Action Project(or “Follow the yellow brick road”) • Just as Dorothy needed the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion to reach her goal, at Sinclair we knew we needed experts from multiple disciplines to: • Continue to emphasize and implement assessment as a college-wide routine, institutionalized practice • Integrate current assessment activities across campus

7. Taking Assessmentto the Next Level • Provide a framework for a common process to identify, capture, and study student outcomes at the class, course, program, division (if appropriate), and institution levels • Drive a common set of general education learning outcomes for all students • Apply a consistent set of measurements to track success and provide a basis for continuous improvement http://www.sinclair.edu/about/aqip/reacp/anl/

8. Our Team

9. The Foundation To Reach the Emerald City we must: Build Collective Responsibility for Systems Improvement

10. Our Collective Responsibility College Priorities Core Indicators Direct Measures of Student Learning Tools, Methods, Processes Gen Ed Outcomes Development P D S A P D S A Learning Liaisons Faculty Members Sinclair Students Direct Measures of Student Learning

11. A Simple but Powerful Message “If you’re doing the assessment job correctly, it doesn’t need to be additive”

12. Process Appreciation Process in Operation http://www.sinclair.edu/about/aqip/pub/Sinclair%20Systems%20Portfolio.pdf

13. Telling the Story

14. AQIP Categories Understanding Students’ & Other Stakeholders’ Needs (3) Helping Students Learn (1) Accomplishing Other Distinctive Objectives (2) Valuing People (4) Leading and Communicating (5) Supporting Institutional Operations (6) Planning Continuous Improvement (8) Building Collaborative Relationships (9) Measuring Effectiveness (7)

16. http://www.sinclair.edu/about/administrative/vpi/pdreview/bus/man/http://www.sinclair.edu/about/administrative/vpi/pdreview/bus/man/

17. Using the Appraisal http://www.sinclair.edu/about/aqip/pub/SinclairSAReport.pdf

18. Check Up Visit Great progress on disaggregating the data! Good results on action projects! Keep working on benchmarking and academic advising! Celebrate! Astounding work in General Education! Use humor!

19. “Operationalizing” Process

20. We‘re off to see the Wizard Self-Study of YourInstitution.Edu for YourAccreditingBody Insights from a reviewer

21. ACBSP Framework

22. Approach

23. Deployment

24. Improvement

25. Results

26. Off to the Land of Oz

27. Off to the Land of Sinclair

28. Cracking the Code • The code is the design of the meta-framework aligning one standard with another • “You can do this once or as many times as you have accreditors.”

32. Questions? • Yours … • Ours • What synergistic opportunities might you surface at your institution? • How might this synergy help or hinder establishment of a common quality framework for assessment of student learning?

33. Contact Information • Ned Young ned.young@sinclair.edu • Barbara VanSyckle, VanSyckBarbara@JCCMI.EDU • Sue Merrell sue.merrell@sinclair.edu