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.
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.
Finally, the office manages department program reviews. Department program reviews provide individual student affairs units with an opportunity to conduct a rigorous self-study and receive valuable feedback from external reviewers who are experts in their field. For more information and the program review handbook, please contact Director of Student Affairs Assessment, Research, and Planning Dr. Ania Peczalska.
