WSU System for Student Learning Outcomes Assessement

WSU’s Federated System of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment 2009-10 The WSU system is a federated one, premised on the need for programs to tailor assessment to their particular circumstances and context, yet coordinate with the central effort. The first fruits of the system are in the University’s 2009-10 portfolio of its assessment and accreditation work. [...]

CHEA 2011 Award Submitted

CHEA 2011 Award Submitted CHEA has an annual awards competition (http://chea.org/2011_CHEA_Award.html ) for innovative assessment efforts. Attached is the WSU 2011 application, submitted last Friday, describing our pilot year of institutional assessment. WSU CHEA 2011 Award Application

Planning the responses to College of Engineering and Architecture

Planning the responses to College of Engineering and Architecture Meeting notes today to organize efforts to send feedback to the college and its programs

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 [...]

Continued work to develop UnivPort website

Here is a calendar of our end of year 2009-10 work to finish reports to NWCCU and discussion around data and representations to get the website developed. —— Forwarded Message From: Nils Peterson Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:20:35 -0700 To: Corinna Lo , Gary Brown , Joshua Yeidel , Peg Collins , Jayme Jacobson [...]

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 [...]

Calendar for the last month before NWCCU Report

This image shows more details of our understanding of the last 30 days before the NWCCU report on 10.15.2010. A year ago we “guessed” the date at 10.10.10, which still shows in the figure. Late reports have come in around the 9.17 deadline, driven by President/Provost goal of getting to 100% reporting. The report (or [...]

Planning for the Assessment Report 2009-2010 Web Presence

Planning for the Assessment Report 2009-2010 Web Presence Activity underway to modify Accreditation.wsu, OAI website, and University Portfolio to reflect our understandings of the needs for the online portions of the NWCCU reporting and public face. At Accreditation we seek a link. OAI serves as our “news” page. Its contents evolve over time. UP home [...]

On Transposing Assessment Scales and Mapping to WSU 6

Re: mapping to WSU 6 An inquiring program point wants to know: A score of 4 is entry level competency, and we will transpose that scale for all programs.  It is absolute, not weighted by us.  (Entry level written communication for your program may not mean the same thing for another,  so our work, not [...]

Revision to the Primary Trait Survey

Revision to the Primary Trait Survey In addition to the ratings of each program’s Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Reports with our rubric, we are capturing some basic data about the reports using a more primary trait survey. The idea is to be able to go back a quickly find specific programs so that we can [...]