Best Practices Questions on Outcomes
Assessment for All Faculty and Staff (based on MiddleStates
Conference, 2012)
1.
Do you show a commitment to assessment?
2
Do you encourage collaboration in assessment
activities?
3.
Do you question underlying assumptions even when
things appear good (status quo)?
4.
Do you have clear expectations ?
5.
Do you promote accountability?
6.
Do we promote best practices?
7.
Is your assessment program successful and
yielding important information?
8.
Do you encourage broad participation of your
community and unit?
9.
Are responsibilities for assessment shared among
members of your unit?
10. Do
you promote assessment as a shared responsibility among community and unit members?
11. Do
you collaborate with our outcomes assessment committee?
12. Do
you have adequate resources to support outcomes assessment activities?
13
Do you feel a sense of accountability for
outcomes assessment?
14. Do
you obtain adequate input from key players when conducting assessments?
15. Are
you systematically reviewing your unit and academic programs?
16. Do
you recognize how your program requires flexibility in assessment?
18. Are
you being mentored in the assessment process?
19. Are
you using professional development activities related to assessment?
20. Do
you read reports from faculty who attend Middle States?
21. Do
you recognize and celebrate accomplishments regarding outcomes, related to
gains in your unit?
22. Is
outcomes assessment built into performance reviews to incentivize assessment
activities?
23. Do you use any type of electronic system to track outcomes?
24. Will you use the assessment blog to educate
yourself about assessment?
25. Have you worked with the outcomes assessment
team to publish dashboards?
26. Do
you identify what is/what is not working in your program?
27. Do you use multiple measures?
28. Are
your measures direct and indirect?
29. Do
you use existing data already collected?
30. Do
you align measures to goals and map to outcomes?
31. Do
you use meaningful and useful measures?
32. Do
we show how findings are used for improvement and what improvement occurred?
33. Do
you use real evidence as opposed to anecdotes?
34. Is
ongoing assessment happening in your units?
35. Do
you collect assessment data even though you may have no external accreditation
requirements?
36. Do
we assess all of our off campus sites?
37. Do
you conduct regularly scheduled assessments?
38. Are
you doing some assessments every year?
39. Are
you addressing gaps honestly?
40. Are
you making concrete plans based on outcomes data?
41. Are
your plans feasible?
42. Are
your plans sufficient?
43. Are
your plans detailed enough to engender confidence that plans will occur?
44. Do
you create appropriate timelines for plans?
45. Do
you have adequate resources available (time, $, human, technology) for
effective assessment and plans?
46. Do
you promote a culture of assessment in your unit?
47. Do
we deal effectively with faculty/staff resistance to assessment and educate them and
address concerns?
48. Does
each department must develop assessment plans?
49. Does
each department report an assessment
report each year which can be used to fuel an annual report and strategic
planning?
50. Do
we conduct workshops on assessment (e.g. rubrics)?
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