2007-2008 Members

(1) Review the methods and instruments to be used to test and assess general education;

(2) Review and recommend to the vice chancellor/provost the approval of department’s proposed methods and instruments to be used in discipline-specific assessment;

(3) Inform departments of changes in assessment requirements imposed by the UW System and accrediting agencies;

(4) Serve as a resource to departments regarding assessment issues (e.g., new testing instruments, changing perceptions of assessment, assessment efforts of peer institutions);

(5) Review the annual institutional report on assessment prepared by the vice chancellor/provost’s office for the UW System;

(6) Determine whether the assessment process is improving teaching and learning at UWSP;

(7) Perform other related duties assigned to it by the Senate, the Executive Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee.

Responsibilities--Assessment Plan

The Assessment Subcommittee with the aid of the Director of Institutional Research will collect, analyze and report assessment data.  The role of the Assessment Subcommittee will be to:

1.  develop the policies and procedures for undergraduate assessment; 

2.   assist departments in selecting and developing appropriate assessment techniques;

3.  select, develop, and administer institutional level assessment procedures and instruments consonant with UWSP's Mission;

4.   oversee compilation of assessment data;

5.   assist departments as they update and review their assessment efforts;

6.   integrate department and general education assessment data into an annual assessment report;

7.  address deficiencies in the assessment process;

8.  refine goals, objectives and outcomes;

9.   alert appropriate faculty committees about curricular problems revealed by general education assessment; and

10. promote assessment through activities such as sponsoring workshops and forums, developing a web-site, holding an assessment day, publicizing assessment activities and results and meeting with administrators.

The subcommittee will NOT

1.  conduct program reviews;

2.   evaluate programs or courses;

3.    assess the worth of units/departments/programs on the basis of assessment data submitted.