Innovating Program Reviews: A Stress-Free Approach with SPOL
Program reviews are essential for assessing the effectiveness and quality of educational programs in academic institutions. However, the traditional ...
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Insights from Experts: 3 Strategies for Faculty Engagement in Assessment
Engaging faculty in program learning assessment is a critical aspect of fostering a robust institutional culture focused on meaningful student ...
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Moving Student Assessment Online to Deliver Optimal Learning Outcomes
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions have quickly adopted online learning environments. The move online promotes social distance and ...
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Higher Education: Maintaining Business Continuity During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has palpably reshaped lives and businesses. Higher education, in particular, has found itself pivoting rapidly to ensure ...
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How North Dakota University System Implemented SPOL
A toolkit introduced to the North Dakota University System’s 11 public colleges and universities has taken a few steps forward. According to Ryan ...
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What do Regional Accreditors Expect for Assessment?
Many times, when we are examining our institution’s assessment processes, we find ourselves asking the question, “What does our regional accrediting ...
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Assessment in Higher Education: 10 Things to Know
Assessment practices in higher education directly impact many aspects of the institution. This can include student success and continuous ...
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Assessment of Administrative Units and Support Services
Each institution generally has the flexibility to define its administrative and support departments as it sees fit. A good starting point is to ...
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Assessing Student Learning Outcomes: Which Methods Are Most Successful?
There are many ways in which we can assess how well our programs are reaching their goals or outcomes. If we are trying to assess non-learning ...
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Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Higher Education
It was more than a decade ago that the field of higher education started to focus on assessment. Educators were asking questions about what, and how ...
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Comparing Institutional Effectiveness Standards, Part II
In our last post, we talked about what the seven accreditation regions in the U.S. have in common in terms of their standards regarding institutional ...
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Comparing Institutional Effectiveness Standards, Part I
I had the opportunity to present a webinar to the members of OCAIR (Overseas Chinese Association for Institutional Research, https://ocair.org/). The ...
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