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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University share a completely integrated curriculum. Therefore, assessment and evaluation of student learning is a joint endeavor. The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University have an institutionalized system of assessment, including a faculty governance committee charged with oversight of assessment. This faculty committee oversees all student outcomes learning assessment plans in general education and discipline courses. Each academic department or program has a faculty assessment coordinator. Evidence that the institutions are gathering and using assessment data effectively include regular participation, interpretation, and utilization of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) surveys; recent revision of the common curriculum to include measurable embedded learning goals for every course in the curriculum; current development, by the faculty, of measurable, universal goals for study abroad programs; and significant organizational changes that have shifted the purposes, processes, participation, and the results of assessment from a place where assessment was episodic, not terribly informative or useful and mostly resisted, to a place where assessment is now constant, nearly systemic, mostly accepted, and used increasingly for data-informed decision making at all levels. |
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College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University |
