Building a Comprehensive Assessment Program at the Department Level

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Building a Comprehensive Assessment Program at
the Department Level

• Context
• Impetus
• Institutional Emphasis on Effectiveness (AQIP)
• Year of the Department
• Changes in Departmental Perspective Regarding
• Alignment of institutional and program goals
• Broadened perspectives on learning objectives
• Reconsideration of curriculum and assessment
• Literature
• Deardorff and Folger
• Wright
• Gulich

• Student Portfolios
• Purpose
• Institutional Benefit
• Responding to increased national interest in
  assessment
• Improving quality of useful student outcome data
• Departmental Benefit
• Data Collection
• For external reporting
• For internal evaluation and continuous quality
  improvement
• Increasing faculty understanding of alignment
  between institutional and program goals
• Increasing communication between department and
  administration, alumni and other stakeholders

Fort Hays State University Department of
Political Science Drs. Chapman Rackaway and Shala
Mills (2007)