The Office of Student Affairs Assessment, Research and Planning's purpose is to understand how the Division of Student Affairs facilitates student learning and provides ongoing assessment support for its departments.
The office is committed to assessing student learning and those institutional conditions, student experiences, and psychological processes that influence its development. It includes activities designed to provide continued support for departmental formative assessments, including tracking participation, satisfaction, benchmarking and other projects necessary for annual reporting.
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Another purpose is to address many institutional and divisional challenges facing the transition from understanding assessment as evaluative based on student opinions and attitudes, to one grounded in a richer understanding of student learning, how to position this learning using an outcomes-based and culturally responsive approach to assessment, and how to market this to all campus partners.