Documenting Progress:

Departments should document both the assessment results and the analysis stage. Just as there are a variety of ways to assess student learning outcomes, there are many ways to provide this documentation. If departments hold meetings to discuss the analysis of the data, minutes from those meetings can be used. Surveys from individual instructors can ask for suggestions for changes in curriculum and teaching practices. Department retreats can be focused on specific courses or programs.

Ultimately, Academic Program Review will be the main place to provide documentation of both data from student learning outcomes and the manner in which the loop was closed: how faculty have used the information from the assessment of student learning outcomes to improve teaching and learning. At this time, department chairs are asked to summarize SLO assessment results, dialogue, and planning once a year as part of Program Review. As assessment, dialogue, and planning take place during the year, chairs should keep a record so that it is available when it is time to complete the Program Review summary.

Curricular Coordinators or Department Chairs record their analysis by entering answers to the Course Assessment Action Plans in the eLumen system.