College presidents may recognize that data can improve the quality of their decision-making process, but they often appear to be disconnected from the very resource that would help them do so: their ...

After the Program Outcomes have been established, the next step and in many ways, the first step in the actual assessment cycle is to identify the learning outcomes that should occur for each course.

Institutional Learning Outcome (ILO) assessment focuses on the quality of the learning experience of students, with support and facilitation from the Office of Educational Effectiveness and ...

Over the past decade, higher education administrators, faculty, and students (not to mention taxpayers) have gained more access to information about college outcomes than ever before. Beyond mere ...

The predecessor of the University Council on Learning Outcomes (UCLO) was the Assessment Report Development Committee. This task force of faculty and administrators, appointed by the President of ...

A curriculum map aligns the program’s curriculum with the program’s student learning outcomes, showing where outcomes are introduced, where they are reinforced or practiced, and where students are ...

If you read the higher education press, you’d probably conclude that the top issues facing higher education are (in no particular order): college affordability, unmanageable student debt, spiraling ...

Demonstrate a proficiency in the fundamental concepts, theory, and methods of the subfields (e.g., by developing a literature review) Demonstrate a broad, holistic awareness of the diversity of past ...