Examining the quality of our assessment system

With most of the 59 programs rated for this round, we are beginning an analysis of our system of assessment. To re-cap, we drafted a rubric about a year ago and tested it with Honors college self-study and a made-up Dept of Rocket Science self-study. We revised the rubric with discussions among staff and some [...]

Draft timeline for Assessment Self-study process

Draft timeline for Assessment Self-study process Showing how the self study data feeds in from programs to the template and flows back out from the template to various reporting needs. This diagram needed to explain system to NWCCU and also to share with Liaisons and Program Points to help them understand that the goal is [...]

Bottlenecks to improving program outcomes assessment

Bottlenecks to improving program outcomes assessment. Today we had a discussion about bottlenecks (and mis-perceptions) programs seem to have about assessment and an assessment system.  The conversation was based on what we’ve observed in our review of the Dec. 18 self studies. It serves as input to the review of the near final draft of [...]

As promised, reflection on the retreat, finally

Re: draft note to staff I was thinking last night that the persistent concern expressed in our still recent retreat was less about job security and more about qualifications in our protean institution.  If I no longer should be doing what I’ve done in the past, what skills do I need to develop to do [...]

Wiki Page for the Self-Study Review Process

From: Joshua Yeidel Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:40:52 -0800 To: OAI messages Subject: Self-Study Review Process Wiki Page OAI folks, In the course of working through the December Self-Study cycle, we have developed a lot of informal knowledge about the process of handling Self-Study Reviews.  Now it is time to capture and preserve that [...]

Planning program highlights for sharing

Planning program highlights for sharing This was a discussion of creating short highlights/ summaries (aka Baseball Cards) for programs with well developed features in their assessment plan, based on the Dec 18 self-study

Re-design of the workflow and web store following Dec 09 cycle

Re-design of the workflow and web store following Dec 09 cycle As the work from assessment and feedback on the Dec 09 self studies comes to a close, the team met to review the (admittedly) ad hoc tools assembled in January. These boards reflect that discussion. Implementation is intended before the May 17 deadline.

Implementing a workflow for Dec 18 Program Review

Below are Joshua’s notes for folks interacting with his new SharePoint mechanisms for implementing a workflow for our Dec 18 review process. The attached image is from Thurs 14 (last week) where we diagrammed out the steps. Joshua implemented a trial mechanism to capture the remaining Dec 18 work as a test run for the [...]

Notes From Design Circle Meeting

FW: Notes From Design Circle Meeting Today we did some post-reviews reflection. Ashley led an activity that had the leadership and Designers doing a jigsaw read of a selection of the responses we have drafted to the Dec 18 planning reports.  The goal of the activity was to surface kinds of resources that would be [...]

Storing drafts of December Planning documents

We are starting to collect documents for review https://universityportfolio.wsu.edu/2009-2010/December Planning/Forms/AllItems.aspx It has me thinking about how we track the portfolio of our own work I just read a draft for a program. I uploaded the document as submitted to me and then used Word’s comment features to make a new version that I sent back [...]