Analysis of Inter-rater agreement 2009-10

Lee, Thanks for telling me that you completed rating Honors also. Our average ratings for that program were 5; 5.5; 4.5; 5  so we are a little lower than you, but in the same category “Integrating” in all but one. You can see all our results here: https://universityportfolio.wsu.edu/2009-2010/Pages/default.aspx We are exploring two measures of inter-rater [...]

Engaging Employers and Other Community Stakeholders

Do you have ideas or examples of good practice of working with employers to promote workforce development? UK universities and colleges are under pressure to do “employer engagement” and some are finding it really difficult. This is sometimes due to the university administrative systems not welcoming non-traditional students, and sometimes because we use “university speak” [...]

Updating and Advancing Accreditation Self Studies

Program Assessment Points and Liaisons: Thank you for the work you and your colleagues have done and are doing on assessment so far, and thanks for the feedback.   We continue to need your help addressing the many entities that have an interest in WSU’s commitment to student learning outcomes. There are audiences at the [...]

Program Reactions to Self-Study Feedback

Program Reactions to Self-Study Feedback I met with a program that expressed feeling frustrated and demoralized by the OAI feedback on their self-study.  They wanted to know what the penalties were for programs that didn’t provide assessment self-studies.  They asked that the results be transparent; that there be consequences for non-compliant programs as well as [...]

OAI Assessment Request

A Liaison requests the following: Goal: Meet the fall 2010 deadline required by NWCC&U that ALL programs need to be doing program level learning outcomes assessment and using the evidence to implement improvements in the fall of 2010.  The program level assessment needs to be aligned with the WSU university assessment system. To meet this [...]

Professional and Institutional Accreditation (ASPB View)

From the Executive Director American Society of Plant Biologists Hi again Gary. I always enjoy learning more about topics that are unfamiliar to me, and accreditation is definitely one such topic! Clearly we could spend considerably more time in dialog (and I hope that we will!), but to directly answer your question, “What accountability bodies [...]

Academic Effectiveness Liaison Council Meeting, Tuesday, October 27

Academic Effectiveness Liaison Council Date: October 27, 2009 Start Time:  2:00:00 PM End Time:  3:00:00 PM Dialing Instructions: 5707955 Origin: Pullman (French 442) Location: Spokane (SHSB 260), Tri-Cities (TEST 228), Vancouver (VCLS 308J) Details: Academic Effectiveness Liaison Council Special Request: Room reserved from 12:00 – 12:30 for set up. Event Contact: Donna Cofield     5-4854 [...]

External Interest in Rain King from TLT Group

Program review rubric From: Stephen C. Ehrmann [mailto:ehrmann@tltgroup.org] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 12:06 PM To: Larry Ragan; Abdous, M’Hammed; Jim Zimmer Cc: Gary Brown Subject: Program review rubric Hi, I mentioned to each of you that Gary Brown and his colleagues were in the early stages of using Flashlight Online [TLTGroup's re-branding of the [...]

Status on completion of the sample assessment

Gary, In anticipation of your meeting with Larry today, here is the status on completion of the sample assessment. This is a summary of the activities of the Liaisons in trying our harvesting system of assessment of assessment. (Note: Only 2 of 9 College liaisons and 4 of 6 OAI staff tried the system since [...]

Seeking NWCCU Feedback on Rain King Initiative

From: Karen Houmiel [mailto:khoumiel@nwccu.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:04 PM To: Brown, Gary Subject: RE: Seeking feedback Hi Gary, I have forwarded your email to Dr. Baker who is the person with whom you will want to speak.  If you need anything else, please don’t hesitate to let us know!  Have a great day! [...]