Institutional Assessment

Focusing on Student Learning and Achievement at LSSU

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Student-based Learning-focused Outcome Assessment

Assessment of the total student learning experience at Lake Superior State University encompasses the aspects of both academics and operational support. 

•  Academic assessment is an ongoing, open, evaluative process focused on improving student learning.  It requires the University to make its learning expectations clear to students and to establish appropriate learning outcomes at the course, program and university levels.  It helps determine how well student performance matches the expected outcomes.  The resulting information is used to inform changes in courses and programs for the improvement of student learning.
• Operational support assessment is an ongoing, open, evaluative process focused on improving university culture and services.  It requires the University to make its service and cultural expectations clear to its stakeholders, and to establish appropriate outcomes at each level of operation.  It helps determine how well performance matches the expected outcomes.  The resulting information is used to inform changes at the unit and university levels for the improvement of the student learning experience 

Assessment Matters -

• Faculty evaluation and the practice of assessment
• Frustrated with Bloom's Taxonomy
• Grades as Assessment
• Is Assessment a Distraction
• Meaningful Assessment Matters
• To Tracdat or Not to Tracdat
• Why Care about Assessment
• The END of TRACDAT
• SURVEY RESULTS on the perceptions of Assessment
  • Faculty survey
  • Staff survey
• Assessment Activity Log - a four-column table to document assessment results

I. Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning.

The University demonstrated its student-learning focus through its voluntary participation in the HLC Academy for Assessment of Student Learning. Through this the university has elevated our focus on course and program assessment activities through a four-year sequence of events and interactions that are focused on student learning, targeted at accelerating and advancing efforts to assess and improve student learning, and designed to build institution-wide commitment to assessment of student learning. The University entered the Academy in the summer of 2012, ending in the summer 2016.

LSSU Academy Project Website

II. Academic Affairs Assessment

A. General Education Assessment

• General Education Assessment Website
• General Education Outcomes
  The: 2013-2014 Senior Exit Survey is now closed
  The 2014-2015 Senior Exit Survey on General Education is closed
  The 2015-2016 Senior Exit Survey on General Education is closed

B. Course-level Assessment of Student Learning

• Report Date: April 2016
• The Courses Arts & Humanities
• The Courses Biological Sciences
• The Courses Business
• The Courses Communication
• The Courses Criminal Justice
• The Courses Education
• The Courses Emergency Medical Services
• The Courses Engineering & Technology
• The Courses English
• The Courses Fire Science
• The Courses Language Studies
• The Courses Liberal Studies
• The Courses Mathematics Computer Science
• The Courses Nursing
• The Courses Physical Science
• The Courses Provost (Honors and Interdisciplinary)
• The Courses Recreation Studies Exercise Science
• The Courses Social Science

C. Program-level Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

• PROGRAM REVIEW (program objectives, reports, monitoring reports)
• Plan for Program Review
• Course and Program Review Cycle - rev. 8-2014
• Reviewing Course & Program Outcome

III. Strategic & University Assessment

A. Institutional Assessment

• 4-Goals over 7 Strategies with 42 Critical Outcomes
  • Graphic
  • Revised Critical Outcomes
  • VP Scorecard with Goals
• Strategic Plan Assessment - Prezi based overview (based on Tracdat v.4)

B. Strategic Plan

• University Strategic Plan (Office of the President) -
• Strategic Reports Matrix
• Critical Outcomes List

C. Other Activities:

• 2014 Digital Photo Assessment Project
• 2013 Digital Photo-Assessment Project - and crosswalk alignment to the Strategic Plan.
• Monitoring Reports submitted to HLC and posted with the accreditation update development of assessment planning
• New Student Orientation: Survey Results through February 24, 2012
• National Survey of Student Engagement
  • The Student Experience at LSSU: 2011 - 2012 - 2013
• The Assessment Landscape is a snapshot of assessment activities across all aspects of the university community.

IV. Institutional

• Higher Learning Commission - accreditation status and reporting
• University Assessment Plan Action & Implementation
  
• Assessment Culture Matrix Survey - source: HLC
  • Survey Findings Fall 2012

Assessment Office David Myton, Ph.D. Assoc. Provost

Contact dmyton@lssu.edu (906) 635-2349