graduate and professional program Assessment Plans

1. graduate and professional program Assessment Plans Dr. Timothy S. Brophy Director of Institutional Assessment University of Florida

2. Today’s Goals • Describe and explain SACS accreditation expectations for academic program assessment • Describe and explain the sections of the Graduate and Professional Programs Assessment Plan • Answer questions

3. What is SACS and Why is it Important to be Accredited? • SACS-COC = the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges • SACS is the Federally-approved accrediting body for southern region of the US • SACS develops policies and standards that operationalize Federal Regulations • Eligibility for Federal funding (includes NSF, NIH) is tied to our reaffirmation – without accreditation we lose this important funding source

4. Federal funding eligibility:UF must be recognized by the USDOE

5. Scope of the SACS Principles

6. SACS Standard 3.3.1.1 • 3.3.1 - The institution identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves these outcomes, and provides evidence of improvement based on analysis of the results in each of the following areas: (Institutional effectiveness) • 3.3.1.1 educational programs, to include student learning outcomes

7. How sacs defines educational programs An educational program is a coherent set of courses leading to a credential (degree, diploma, or certificate) awarded by the institution.

8. Expectations for academic program assessment

9. Expectations for academic program assessment

10. Expectations for academic program assessment • Shared widely within and across programs, the results of this assessment can affirm the institution’s success at achieving its mission and can be used to inform decisions about curricular and programmatic revisions. • (SACSCOC 2012, Resource Manual, http://sacscoc.org/pdf/Resource%20Manual.pdf)

11. What SACS Expects

12. The UF Assessment Process UF MISSION Institutional Effectiveness Assessment

13. Graduate and Professional program Assessment Plan

14. Sections of the plan

15. Mission

16. Student learning outcomes • These have been provided in the templates you received in September • The complete file is on the Institutional Assessment website • Graduate SLO categories are Content, Skills, and Professional Behaviors • Online resources: • “Writing Measurable Student Learning Outcomes” PowerPoint • “Guide to Writing Student Learning Outcomes”

17. Research

18. assessment timeline

19. Assessment timeline Program_____________________________________College ____________________________________

20. Timeline sample – Ph.D. in Mass Communications Program: Ph.D. in Mass CommunicationCollege of Journalism and Communications

21. Assessment Cycle Program College _ Analysis and Interpretation: [Enter date or time frame here] Improvement Actions: Completed by [Enter date here] Dissemination: Completed by [Enter date here]

22. Assessment Cycle Sample – Ph.D. in Mass Communications Program: Ph.D. in Mass CommunicationCollege of Journalism and Communications Analysis and Interpretation: May-June Program Modifications: Completed by August 31 Dissemination: Completed by September 30 Note: Data collection for these assessments will begin in the 2012-13 academic year. We did not collect data in prior years.

23. Methods and Procedures

24. Assessment oversight

25. Questions Timothy S. Brophy, Ph.D. Director, Institutional Assessment 235 Tigert Hall Office of the Provost Email:tbrophy@aa.ufl.edu Phone: 273-4476