考核与评价
North Park University has several mechanisms in place for measuring institutional effectiveness. These include assessment of the following:
- Academic program and Core Assessment
- Administrative planning and evaluation
- 学术项目审查
Institutional Effectiveness oversees these processes by coordinating and providing administrative support and technical expertise to departments. Individual departments and 项目 are responsible for developing their annual assessment and evaluation plans, conducting assessment and evaluation, providing our office with a report summarizing the results and how they plan to use them for 改善ment.
学术项目 and Core Assessment
Assessment is a set of processes designed to 改善, 演示, 查询 关于学生学习. It involves systematic collection and analysis of educational 项目 for the purposes of improving student learning and outcomes.
North Park University Student Learning Outcomes
基督教的框架
Articulate the Christian message as rooted in the sacred text of the Bible.
沟通
Communicate effectively in public, organizational, interpersonal settings.
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
应用 critical thinking and argumentation to contemporary problems.
道德推理
应用 ethical principles in decision making and civic responsibility.
信息素养
Employ appropriate information sources, systems, networks in knowledge acquisition and creation.
定量推理
Draw conclusions through application of quantitative reasoning to analysis of complex quantitative information.
幸福
Demonstrate an understanding of the multi-faceted nature of wellness and its impact on individuals and communities.
Four-Stage Cycle for the Assessment of Program-Level Learning Outcomes
North Park University follows a four-stage cycle assessment model to assess the extent to which the student learning outcomes are being met.
- Stage 1: DEFINE – program-level assessment plans identify program-level learning outcomes. What are the students expected to learn in the degree program? 我们为什么要选择这个结果?
- Stage 2: DESIGN – the assessments used to measure that achievement and forms evidence gathered to assess the extent to which students learned. What forms of evidence were gathered to assess the extent to which students learned? Did we utilize at least one direct measure/tool for each SLO?
- Stage 3: DISCOVER – What were the results of the measurement? 我们完成SLO了吗? assessment data are gathered and analyzed using Canvas LMS and Campus Labs, 评核管理工具. What were the results of the measurement? 我们完成SLO了吗?
- Stage 4: DELIVER – Results of the analysis are used to implement program enhancement. How has the evidence or information gathered through assessment been used to 改善 student learning?