NEW or UPDATED
Assessment Results by Off Campus versus On Campus: 2008-2009, 2009-2010
Notes from Unit Assessment Committee meetings Sept. 22, 2010 and Oct. 20, 2010, including most recent discussions for improving the unit's assessment system and discussion of assessment data from 2009-2010. Notes from previous years' Unit Assessment Committee meetings can be found on the Reports and Resources page.
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PREVIOUSLY POSTED
1. Description of unit's assessment system
See Unit Annual Reports for 2008-2009, 2007-2008, and 2006-2007
Also see Unit Assessment System diagram
2. Data from key assessments used at entry to programs
Program Reports to the Unit (collected annually) - Current reports from 2008-2009
Chief School Business Official
Curriculum and Instruction undergraduate, graduate
Counseling and Counseling Institute
Early Childhood undergraduate, graduate
Elementary Education undergraduate, graduate
Geology (Earth & Space Science, Environmental Science)
Mathematics (secondary)
Special Education LBS1 undergraduate, graduate
Special Education Vision undergraduate, graduate
ALTERATE REPORTING FOR PROGRAMS WITH OTHER ACCREDITORS
(UPDATED) Art undergraduate, graduate
Music undergraduate, graduate
See also SPA reports (on NCATE AIMS site)
See also Unit Annual Reports (in #1 above)
3. Procedures for ensuring that key assessments and unit operations are fair, accurate, consistent and free of bias
Summary of procedures and actions taken
See also program reports to unit (in #2 above)
4. Policies and procedures that ensure that data are regularly colllected, compiled, aggregated, summarized and used to make improvements
See Unit Annual Reports in #1 above
See Notes from Unit Assessment Committee Meetings on Reports and Resources page
5. Sample of candidate assessment data disaggregated by off-campus programs
On-Campus and Off-Campus Comparison
6. Policies for handling student complaints
University-wide
Affirmative Action and Diversity Resources, Human Resources Services
Program-Specific Policies and Procedures
College of Health and Human Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
7. File of student complaints and the unit's response
College of Health and Human Sciences
As of 16 December 2009, we have not received any student complaints (other than grade appeals) for the FACS, ECS, Health Education or Speech Language Pathology Programs. If we receive complaints in the future, we will maintain a file that describes the complaint, process, and the resolution of the complaint.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
8. Examples of changes made to courses, programs, and the unit in response to data gathered from the assessment system
See the Unit Annual Reports above
OTHER ASSESSMENT-RELATED
Incentives for Doing Research, Assessment, and Improving Learning:
Grants to Support Improvement of Instruction
Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Instruction
Campus Assessment Network
"The Campus Assessment Network, established in July 2006, is a group of individuals across campus involved in assessment as part of their professional role at NIU....The Campus Assessment Network was established for the purpose of bringing together assessment professionals and other interested parties across NIU to better enable these individuals to:
The Campus Assessment Network started a book group in Fall 2009 to collaborate on growing the scholarship of assessment. Members meet every couple of weeks to discuss Trudy Banta's book "Building a Scholarship of Assessment" and to discuss collaborating on an assessment research-related project.
Assessment Message
During the 2008-2009 academic year, Campus Assessment Network (a group of faculty, staff and administrators from accross campus who are interested in assessment) developed a series of related assessment messages with images to target four audiences about the value of assessment. Posters geared toward students, faculty and staff, administrators, and community partners were developed for use by anyone who wanted to participate in promoting awareness about assessment.
Assessment Expo
Two teacher certification programs were invited and participated in the university's second annual Assessment Expo in March 2009. Special Education (Learning Behavior Specialist 1) and English presented their assessments to collegues. See their posters below:
English