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Program Assessment System Questions

You can receive a quick review of your current education assessment system by answering questions in the form below.

Click on the choices button to select the option that most closely reflects your system. After selecting your answers, click on the submit button and view your results.

Questions about your unit's current education assessment system  
1. How many years have faculty data been collected?
2. How many reports are published by the college of education each year?
3. How much of the information about student teaching performance has been aggregated and appears your program assessment system?
4. How many pages of useful assessment system documentation exist?
5. How often is assessment data stored on computer(s) backed up?
6. How many of the following four organizational levels, the unit, department, program, and institution, contribute participate in an automated assessment system?
7. How much of the assessment system’s design and capability can be described by the dean?
8. Is there a process in place to validate reports after the assessment system is modified?
9. How many hours does it take to obtain a special report on aggregate candidate performance?
10. How many hours does it take to determine the percent of institution funding going to the college of education?
11. Does an understanding and agreement about the difference between a candidate assessment system and a unit assessment system for program improvement exist?
12. Is candidate data reviewed by a person(s) who verifies its accuracy?
13. How many hours does it take to compare education faculty salaries to that of other institution faculty?
14. Has a person within the college of education assumed responsibility for and control of the program assessment system?
15. How many hours does it take to describe, in quantitative terms, the efficiency of education faculty?
16. How many program improvements have been tracked by a program assessment system within the college of education during the past twelve months?

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