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Assessment Mission & Values

Mission Statement

The mission of Assessment is to provide university-wide support for:

  • Assessment of student learning outcomes

  • Planning and reporting on assessment activities (formative as well as summative).

  • Continuous improvement activities at the course, program and institutional levels

  • Moreover, Assessment strives to collaborate with faculty, administrators and other staff to develop and sustain, across the university, a community-supported and endorsed culture of assessment.

Values:

  • Supporting Faculty in their quest to help ¼ø»Æʦapp to learn

  • Continuous improvement of student learning

  • Collaboration with faculty and staff

  • Shared responsibility and shared resources

  • Use of technology to achieve efficiency

  • Responsiveness

  • Open communication and listening

  • Evidence-based / Data-driven decisions and changes

  • Rigorous, high-quality, and useful assessment data such as authentic performance-based assessment and embedded curriculum-based assessments of student abilities, skills (e.g., written and oral communications, quantitative literacy, critical thinking), and knowledge (especially analysis and synthesis as opposed to simple memorization).

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