Establishing Assessment of Student Learning
Example documents and forms:
Interim Program Review Form
Interim Program Review Example
Academic Affairs Document
Establishing Assessment at Sonoma State University
Between the years 2000 and 2003, all Departments and Academic Programs of Sonoma State University have been establishing assessment of students learning . The instrument for establishing assessment at the program level has been the Program Review that each Department or Program prepares every five years.
The Education Policy Committee (EPC) of the SSU Senate and the Office of Academic Affairs of the Provost, with the technical support of a Faculty Assessment Coordinator, has been monitoring this process.
For establishing assessment, which is an investment activity for each Department or Program, the conventional program review has been streamlined--Interim Program Review. Once assessment establishment is completed, EPC and Academic Affairs will continue monitoring conventional program reviews.
Assessment establishment results from the following stages:
- Development of an assessment process at the Department or Program level with the assistance of the Assessment Faculty Coordinator.
- Submission of the adopted process for consideration of EPC. This submission is based on a template and an example developed by EPC and the Faculty Assessment Coordinator to simplify the work of Departments and the subsequent evaluation by EPC.
- After a first reading of the assessment document of a particular Department or Program, EPC selects two faculty members to evaluate the document. The purpose of this activity is to assist each Department or Program through feedback.
- During a second reading EPC provides suggestions if necessary and the representative of a particular department responds to the suggestions. Each Department has the choice to accept or not to accept some or all suggestions.
