NILOA: "Assessment That Matters" Report
NILOA releases results of third national survey on assessment practices in U.S. higher education
The University Assessment Committee, with the support of Sean Lancaster, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Provost Mili, supports the suspension of assessment plan reporting and assessment plan review for the 2022-2023 academic year to ensure a smooth transition to a more effective and beneficial process.
This past academic year, the UAC spent significant time listening to the campus community, reviewing, and then proposing significant revision to our current assessment plan structure and reporting process. We want to have a process that benefits all stakeholders better, and we are engaged in that effort. The recommendations are forwarded to University Academic Senate (UAS) for consideration, and we anticipate support for the improvements to the process. Given the changes coming, we recognize the necessity and benefit to having programs pause reporting this year while waiting for the revised process to be approved and updates made to GVAssess.
UAC will keep campus informed about the upcoming process, once approved. UAC’s work this year is focused on implementing the improvements and building resources to better support all programs/units. UAC will reach out to you in early 2023 with instructions for revisions to assessment planning and reporting. We hope that the revisions allow all programs to focus on a small number of key student learning and student-centered outcomes that can best support the excellent work and desired improvements of each program.
Please direct questions to Julie Henderleiter, University Assessment Committee chair, at [email protected].
PLEASE NOTE--All assessment requirements for General Education, SWS, FSBC reporting, and any reporting for external accreditation of individual programs will continue as normal.
Assessment at GVSU encompasses several overlapping areas:
Assessment at GVSU is an ongoing, multi-layered process:
See the assessment process page for additional details.
The UAC is the standing committee of the University Academic Senate that supports and promotes program- and unit-level assessment at GVSU. The committee meets in full session every other week during the academic year (Mondays, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.).
UAC recently developed and adopted new reporting processes in conjunction with the development of GVSU's in-house assessment tracking and reporting systems, GVPlan and GVAssess. For additional information, view the About UAC page of our website.
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UAC members review and provide feedback on an average of 71 assessment reports and strategic plans per semester. Offline versions of the UAC reviewer rubrics are available. |
The committee is developing resources for faculty and staff involved in assessment planning, implementation, and reporting. Visit our Resources and Support page for details.
For additional support, contact the UAC chair.
NILOA releases results of third national survey on assessment practices in U.S. higher education
The new Student Outcomes Search makes it possible to easily view the outcomes for programs at GVSU. A snapshot of the latest reporting from the GVAssess assessment database is also displayed.
The new front-end for the GVAssess and GVPlan databases was released on Sept. 10, 2018. The update merges several systems into a unified interface called GVAdvance. (intranet.gvsu.edu/gvadvance)
GVSU's university-wide assessment conference in January 2018 was part of a larger conversation about how we can assess student learning efficiently and effectively.