Criteria: (2) "During the first year following program completion, the unit solicits feedback from program completers employed in education, and their supervisors, regarding program's effectiveness." (3) "Maintain placement records for all program completers during the first year following program completion."
An examination of the assessment system's category, entitled program reports demonstrates how the CTL regularly and systematically uses data to evaluate the efficacy of its courses, programs, clinical experiences, and unit operations. Although faculty have been examining LiveText and WEST E data quarterly, and providing evidence of monitoring these data through program minutes and notes, a new annual reporting system has been developed and approved by the CTL for the purpose of improving the unit's systematic analyses and reporting efforts.
Programs are now provided, immediately following winter quarter, graphic summaries and short interpretations of both unit-wide and program specific candidate and post-graduate performance data. The summaries include: a Standard Citation Analysis, LiveText Rubric Reports, Candidate Success on Standards Across Courses or Dimensions, WEST B Trends, WEST E Trends, EBI Teacher and Principal Trends, First and Third Year Teacher Trends, Dispositional Analyses, a Final Student Teaching Evaluation LT Report, and Career Services Program Completer data. In return, program coordinators are asked to share these summaries with their respective faculties to facilitate discussions that ultimately culminate in responses to each set of summarized data. The culminating responses are syntheses of those conversations, which become evidence that the unit analyzes program data and performance data to initiate improvements where necessary. Programs are given the entire spring quarter to edit or update their reports as necessary. At the end of the spring quarter, program reports are locked and archived. At that time a final unit report is also archived.
The primary purpose of the program reports is to create a professional culture in which evidence and data are a regular part of faculty conversation, as well as to discretely demonstrate how the CTL uses data to update courses, improve programs, and evaluate unit operations including the assessment system. The latter is completed after all of the program reports have been submitted. Each program report is read and a content analysis is conducted across all program reports. The unit report is the last category of the Assessment System Graphic. The graphic depicts the unit report as the culminating analysis and report, which is fed back to programs, CTL governing committees, PEABs, and is open to the public for comment. PEAB minutes verify that data are regularly shared and evaluated, which result in recommendations for program and unit improvement. Please refer to the Unit Report category for details of the content analysis findings.
A public survey has been developed using Question Pro. This survey provides the academic community (candidates, faculty outside of the professional unit, and administrators), the professional community, and interested public with an opportunity to comment in a systematic way and to assess the data, summaries, programs, and unit reports published on the web. As the graphic illustrates, the assessment system is an open process of continuous improvement, which is closed looped, multilayered, comprehensive, efficient, reflective, and effective. |
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