Academic Assessment Cycle
The Assessment Cycle is the established structure for identifying outcomes and measures of success, tracking those outcomes, analyzing results, and identifying and implementing necessary improvement plans. Academic plans follow the academic calendar.
| AY 2020-2021 | AY 2021-2022 | AY 2022-2023 | AY 2023-2024 and beyond | |
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| Overall Focus | Creating student learning outcomes and curriculum map | Assessing student learning outcomes; updating curriculum map; creating student achievement outcomes | Assessing student learning outcomes and student achievement outcomes; creating operational outcomes | Assessing student learning outcomes, student achievement outcomes, and operational outcomes |
| Fall |
OIA: provide feedback to Academic Programs; discuss student achievement metrics
Academic Programs: revise SLOs and CMs; begin to collect data; draft student achievement outcomes |
OIA: provides feedback to Academic Programs; discuss operational outcomes
Academic Programs: revise SLOs, CM, SAOs as needed; begin to collect data on SLOs and SAOs; draft operational outcomes |
OIA: provides feedback to Academic Programs
Academic Programs: revise SLOs, CM, SAOs, OOs as needed; begin to collect data on SLOs, SAOs, OOs |
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| Spring | Academic Programs: submit completed SLO and CM templates to OIA | Academic Programs: finalize data collection (SLO); submit complete templates (SLO plans and results) to OIA; submit draft student achievement outcomes to OIA | Academic Programs: finalize data collection (SLOs and SAOs); submit complete template (plans and results) to OIA; submit draft operational outcomes to OIA | Academic Programs: finalize data collection (SLOs, SAOs, OOs); submit complete template (plans and results) to OIA |
| Summer | OIA: review templates (focus on draft SLO and CM) | OIA review templates (focus on SLO reporting / results and draft student achievement outcomes) | OIA review templates (focus on SLO and SAO reporting / results and draft operational outcomes) | OIA review templates (focus on SLO, SAO, OO reporting / results) |