Program-Level Assessment

for Department Chairs, Program Directors, Learning Community Directors, and Certificate Leaders

1. The MUM Guide to the Program Assessment Planning and Reporting  This is the guide to creating an assessment plan and to filing an annual report. Here is the link to the report form. You can’t use this to submit an annual report, but you can see the questions being asked.
2. Assessment Plan Template.This is a downloadable template that you can use to construct your assessment plan for your academic program. Instructions are included in the MUM Guide linked above. It covers the next five years in case you wish to evaluate different outcomes in different months, but you can also evaluate all your program outcomes each year.
3. List of Direct and Indirect Measures  (from Suskie, 2009, Assessing Student Learning, 2nd ed., p. 21)
4. Curriculum Mapping
   At MUM every program and learning community should have a curriculum map that shows how the student learning outcomes are related to each course in the program. The materials accessed through this page help you understand a curriculum map and its value. You can also find a collection of MUM curriculum maps on this page.
   Assessment: Will It Be a “We Have To?” or “We Get To?” — Slide Presentation by Dr. Ralph Wolff, President, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Senior College Commission. Dec. 2010 (PPT)* with 3 handouts (sample curriculum maps). Click on the link and you can download to your hard drive.
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   Sample Curriculum Maps
   • Assessment in Learning-Centered Institutions, by Mary J. Allen, 2009 (PDF)
   • Program and Course Outcome Matrix from San Francisco University, 2007 (PDF)
   • Matrix of Goals and Student Learning Outcomes for EMBA in Life Sciences: Program SLOs Mapped to Course SLOs (PDF)
   1. Curriculum Map Template
   2. Curriculum Map Guidelines
   3. Useful guidelines from University of North Carolina
   4. Sample Curriculum Maps
      1. Art Program (BA, BFA, MA) Curriculum Maps
      2. Gen Ed program curriculum map
      3. SL Curriculum Map

1. Current list of Program Learning Outcomes:
   • Undergraduate and Graduate Program Outcomes (by program)