Busy Chairperson's Guide to Assessment

BUSY CHAIRPERSON'S GUIDE
TO ASSESSMENT

Introduction

Questions

1. What is a departmental assessment program?

2. What should be included in the department’s list of educational objectives?

3. Who should be assessed?

4. How can the department insure that all students are assessed? What if students don’t want to participate?

5. What if an appropriate nationally normed test of achievement in the major is not available?

6. Can you be more specific about acceptable and unacceptable measures of student learning?

7. Is one good measure of student learning enough to satisfy the assessment requirement?

8. Whatever happened to value-added?

9. Can you be more specific about standards? How do you set up and apply standards in assessment?

10. How can I add assessment to the already busy schedules of my faculty and students?

11. When and where do I report the results of assessment?

12. What should be included in the assessment report?

13. Who will read my assessment report?

14. If the UARC already has the department plan on file, why do I need to include it in the annual report?

15. Are there required formats for reporting data?

16. What do you mean by analysis and interpretation?

17. Do I have to use the results of assessment for the purpose of improvement?

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