Assessment
Assessment is focused primarily on measuring progress toward our student goals and using those measurements to improve our programs. See the link to the left to view a 10-year timeline of planned assessments linked to each of the student goals. Assessment plans are also being developed for each academic major and the new Core.
Student Goals
- Acquire integrated knowledge from a variety of academic, philosophical, and cultural perspectives as well as the in depth knowledge of a chosen major.
- Develop skills and habits of mind that lead to life long learning: effective communications, open inquiry, critical reasoning, creativity, and the ability to solve problems.
- Develop moral character that is evident in ethical behavior, intercultural effectiveness, environmental stewardship, and service to humanity.
- Develop increasing maturity that is reflected in intellectual, spiritual, and physical well-being.
Institutional Assessment Coordinating Council
Membership:
Assistant Vice President for Institutional Planning
Dean of Student Life
Assistant Academic Dean/ AQIP Coordinator
Director of Academic Computing
Chair of Academic Assessment Committee
Assessment Consultant
Role:
- Develop and implement an institutional plan and schedule that yields longitudinal outcomes data used to evaluate program effectiveness and achievement of Central’s goals for students.
- Identify and develop means of analyzing data through various institutional research functions.
- Draft a plan to develop systematic means of communicating assessment results.
- Establish regular assessment processes, analyze, and publish results.
- Focus on student outcomes in achieving goals for students as published in the catalog:
Academic Assessment Committee
Membership:
four elected faculty
two students
representative from the Center for Academic Excellence
representative from Academic Affairs.
Role:
- Assist college academic programs in developing and implementing assessment measures. Current focus is on student learning outcomes within the major and core.
- Facilitate and evaluate student assessments as related to institutional goals.
- Facilitate and evaluate assessment of student dispositions, growth and development
- Track trends of incoming through exiting students.
- Report results of academic program effectiveness and campus-wide student learning effectiveness to appropriate stakeholder.