PROVIDING INFORMATION & RESEARCH TO THE CAMPUS & COMMUNITY On this website you will find university information and research we provide to members of the campus and community about enrollment, student characteristics, degrees, faculty and staff, campus survey results, and assessment of student learning.
To aid programs, administrators and faculty in further understanding the Assessment process, and to help serve as an educational gateway to current research in programmatic and general education assessment, the Office of Institutional Research has developed this Research Summary and Articles page. Here you will find summaries of recent assessment publications, online articles, and other related works. The summaries are intended to be brief, and the content will be updated on a continuing basis.
The author argues that assessment of student learning is a faculty responsibility if they truly care about their students’ learning. She suggests that faculty may want to re-asses how they view assessment. Originally published 2/25/11 at http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university_of_venus/assessment_as_an_act_of_care
Download the "Act of Care" PDFThe author provides some basic paperless assessment tools to integrate into programmatic and/or general education assessment. Great start for programs thinking about starting an e-portfolio assessment system. Originally published 2/23/11 at http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/02/23/assessment-beyond-the-paper.aspx
Download the "Assessment Beyond the Paper" PDF
Download the "Let Me Count the Ways" PDF
Various articles are summarized. The main topic of note is on five strategies that positively engage faculty in assessment, by Jeremy D. Penn. This publication can be found at wileyonlinelibrary.com
Download the Assessment Update PDFAnnual programmatic assessment reports were due on Friday, November 25, 2011. Full reports were due for annual and biennial cycle programs, and updates were due for triennial programs. If you have not yet submitted, please contact Ron Severtis at rseverti@ius.edu to request an extension. As of Monday, November 28, 11 of 34 programs (32.4%) have already submitted their reports or updates with another 6 programs (17.6%) having received extensions.
One primary goal of the Assessment Specialist is to work with faculty of all programs, especially those with annual or biennial assessment cycles, to improve programmatic assessment and facilitate each program to achieve triennial cycle status. As of Fall 2011:
