Student Learning Outcomes Reports
The University Assessment Steering Committee (UASC), in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, require regular student learning outcomes assessment reports to monitor the progression of student learning assessment within each program/unit to determine where attention and support should be focused.
Historically, the Deans' Reports on Assessment provided an overview of assessment efforts within each college but a lack of template resulted in inconsistent information across programs being shared making it difficult to have a comprehensive understanding of assessment at WMU. As a result, the report format was re-evaluated by the UASC in 2015 for future submissions with recommendations made by the associate deans to streamline the process and ensure the data was relevant and actionable and a template was created. The template, (and resulting reports), moved from being an overview to one where each program could share outcomes described through the entire assessment cycle.
The process was reviewed again in 2018, leading to significant improvements, such as expanding to include assessing learner support unit assessment plans. This new 'culture of assessment' report asked departments/units to share their goals, learning outcomes, activities, measured progress, and to describe data-informed changes made based on assessment results. The new process and template focused on providing quantitative data to inform and measure assessment practices institutionally, the development of a four-point rubric to evaluate each submission, and methods to provide direct and personalized feedback on each report submitted.
The current practice, determined by the UASC, was to ask for a report on assessment of student learning outcomes activities every third year for the academic colleges and each of their programs. The UASC is reviewing this practice to include the learner support units and to develop a schedule that will align with program review and other reporting requests across campus in order to streamline the process. The intent is to develop and finalize a new schedule in the fall of 2021.
Click on the links below to view the assessment of student learning reports for the year of interest.
2018-19
2015-16
2011-12
- College of Arts and Sciences (2011-12)
- College of Aviation (2011-12)
- College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2011-12)
- College of Fine Arts (2011-12)
- College of Health and Human Services (2011-12)
- Haworth College of Business (2011-12)
2009-10
- College of Arts and Sciences Assessment Report 2010: The College of Arts and Sciences gave a presentation to the University Assessment Steering Committee on April 22, 2010. Here is a letter provided to the college as feedback from members of the committee in July, 2010.
- College of Aviation (2010)
- College of Education and Human Development (2010)
- College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2010)
- College of Fine Arts (2010)
- College of Health and Human Services (2010)
- Haworth College of Business (2010)