Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Assessment and Accreditation
Mission Statement
The Academic Affairs Assessment and Accreditation Office functions as a supportive service to ISU departments, colleges, and programs. The office provides guidance in assessing learning outcomes as they relate to the university, college, and department/program mission statements, and in using the results of assessment to enhance curriculum and instruction. It supports the university community by:
- Assisting each academic program in creating a clear and concise assessment process, in consultation with deans, associate/assistant deans, department chairpersons, program directors, and faculty assessment teams;
- Offering training programs on assessment;
- Promoting the use of assessment data to improve student learning outcomes;
- Improving the effectiveness of assessment instruments and data analysis;
- Facilitating appropriate reporting structures and data maintenance procedures for assessment;
- Encouraging the inclusion of professionals and other appropriate external participants in the creation of assessment plans at the university, college, and departmental/program level;
- Developing and maintaining a public reporting mechanism that reports assessment results at ISU;
- Helping the ISU community to be recognized as a university with state-of-the-art assessment processes and procedures, through faculty and staff publications and presentations on assessment;
- Assisting programs, departments, and colleges in being nationally recognized as having high quality programs, in part due to faculty and department-led efforts to continually improve programs through the use of assessment information;
- Communicating to the university community, colleges, and programs the activities, successes and opportunities provided by the assessment activities of the division of academic affairs;
- Maintaining the Assessment and Accreditation Website.
Staff
Directory
ISU
Guiding Principles for Assessment
North
Central Association Assessment and Accreditation
Current
Accreditations
Current
Assessment Activities
College
and Dept Activity
Resources
Assessment
Progress at ISU
Assessment
at ISU Newsletter
NSSE
(National Survey of Student Engagement)