Make Assessment Easy and Get People Onboard
The greatest challenge in assessment is not defining outcomes or developing relevant course materials, these processes are happening in some form already. The challenge lies in bringing people together to participate in assessment without imposing on their main concerns of teaching and conducting research in their field of expertise. Assessment can be intimidating sometimes to someone with little experience in the subject, but the fact remains that the information required for conducting an informed assessment process is deeply rooted in faculty participation. The answer to this problem is to make assessment as easy as possible. If you make the process efficient and easy to understand, then you remove the barriers of acceptance and get more people on board. Provide a collaboration point for faculty members to manage the assessment process and make it easy to enter data and maintain results. Get everyone onboard with the assessment effort by making the process fast, efficient, and easy with Strategic Planning Online.
Assessment is Easy with Strategic Planning Online
- Enter Assessment Information Quickly and Easily
- Support the Assessment Effort and Help the Institution Grow
- Protect Academic Freedom and Confidential Student Information
- Keep Faculty Focused on Research, Teaching, and Learning
Faculty Members Can Support the Assessment Effort without Sacrificing Teaching and Research
Assessment is a difficult subject for most institutions because Faculty members have a heavy workload and the assessment process asks even more of them. Faculty members have dedicated their lives to conducting research and sharing their knowledge with students. No one chooses to teach only to become encumbered with paperwork and administrative tasks. The fact is however, that assessment must happen in some form. Many accreditation agencies now require some sort of assessment as part of the reaffirmation process, and many institutions are focused gathering assessment data to help improve student learning and institutional outcomes. There is a way to manage assessment and help the institution grow without imposing on anyone's schedule. There is a way to get everyone onboard with a fast and efficient assessment process. Strategic Planning Online makes it easy for Faculty members to contribute to assessment and get back to teaching and research, while providing the information the institution needs to conduct a quality assessment process. With Strategic Planning Online Faculty members can support the assessment effort without sacrificing teaching and research, and the institution can learn and grow from the information provided by the entire team.
Planning, Assessment and Continuous Improvement
Assessment brings together a great deal of information from many departments to develop relevant outcomes and measure results. "That which cannot be measured cannot be managed ", so measuring is important. The problem with most assessment efforts is that they stop at the measuring stage. Collecting documentation and measuring results is the first stage of assessment, however to make assessment a true part of the institutional effectiveness effort it must be combined with planning in a continuous improvement process. Strategic Planning Online provides the platform for continuous improvement by creating repository for evidence and an environment where that information can be shared with the planning team. Faculty members can develop outcomes, share course information, and collect evidence while guiding the planning team to develop strategic planning objectives that will help to improve assessment results. This process creates a true continuous improvement environment where results are used to develop strategic plans and the plans are then measured and managed based on their results. Strategic Planning Online allows your entire institution to collaborate about assessment while developing strategic plans to improve results. Assessment is a necessity, but it doesn't have to be difficult. Make it easy for faculty members to store information and coordinate your planning team around assessment results with Strategic Planning Online.
