Student Affairs Assessment Reporting Format

Each unit will be asked to provide a one page departmental overview, a written report and an oral presentation of this material to the Student Affairs Assessment Team when they are scheduled to report on their assessment efforts.

Requirements of the Written Report (See Rubric)

  • 5 – 10 pages, single spaced with a 12-point font sizewithin the word format attached. Written report will be due 2 weeks in advance of the oral presentation.
  • Articulate your intended outcome.(Also identify the type of outcome – learning, program, service and why it’s needed.)
  • Describe the current experiences, programs, services or interventions in place that address the intended outcome.
  • Describe your methods used to collect the data for this outcome. (Copies of survey instruments may be included as part of the appendix and include when data was collected and how it was collected.)
  • Present the resultsfor this outcome.(You may wish to attach supporting information in charts or tables and remember to describe the analysis used, who results were reported to and what results you found).
  • Provide a narrative of the implications for practice. (What programmatic and assessment changes are you planning to incorporate into your unit in the future. Are there any budgetary implications for the future? How has this information informed your practice?)

Requirements for the Oral Presentation

  • FORMAT -20-30 minute presentation of material and a 30-minute question and answer session between the Student Affairs Assessment Team, unit presenters, and audience members.
  • What are the highlights of the RESULTS section of your written report?

How did you come to these results? What was the level of involvement of others in your unit in each section of the process – writing intended outcomes, establishing methods, discovery of results, discerning implications for future practice?

  • What are the unit’s future IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE and ASSESSMENT CYCLE?

How are you using looping within your assessment processes? How will you integrate your results into your practice? What’s changing? What new questions do you have? What stakeholders were involved?

Student Affairs Assessment Review Rubric

  • The rubric will be the tool for each unit to complete a self- assessment and will be used by the team for feedback on the written report and oral presentation.

Requirements for the Student Affairs Assessment Web Page

  • The Final Written Report
  • Power Point Presentation of the Oral Presentation
  • Additional Documents in an Appendix (optional)

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Evaluation of the Assessment Process

Following a unit’s oral presentation feedback from the Student Affairs Assessment Committee will be sent to the Unit Assessment Coordinator and the Director within 2 weeks of the review. A planning document will also be sent for completion by the unit within a month of receiving the committee’s feedback. In addition, abrief survey will be sent to the Unit Coordinator and Director for feedback on the entire assessment reporting format and responses from this survey will be collected, reviewed, and considered during the on-going and formal scheduled review, in December 2010, of the Student Affairs Assessment Process.

Student Affairs Assessment Written Report

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Intended Outcome
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Experiences, Programs, Services, or Interventions
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Methods
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Results
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Implications for Practice
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