Assessment
Understanding Assessment
Assessment is a data-informed decision-making process that involves collecting, analyzing, and acting on information and evidence with the goal of improving students' outcomes and experiences, therefore supporting institutional effectiveness and accreditation.
The assessment learning cycle explains the process of continuous improvement:
- Plan and identify outcomes, based on mission and goals
- Establish a plan to collect evidence
- Provide the experience and collect data
- Make meaning and draw conclusions from the findings
- Identify and implement changes
- Repeat
See the student learning outcomes assessment website for more information.
Rationale for Assessment
The assessment of academic and co-curricular programs, which is a critical component of HLC accreditation, provides an opportunity to engage in regular continuous improvement regarding the quality of educational programs and learning environments across campus.
Assessment Timeline
Assessment is a cyclical, ongoing process that is reported on annually. Annual assessment reports, reflecting the work from the previous academic year, for co-curricular experiences are due August 1st and October 1st for academic programs.
Celebrating Assessment
Annual Assessment Award
The UND Excellence in Assessment Award is presented to a UND employee who has gone above and beyond in their prescribed assessment duties. The recipient of this award is selected by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Accreditation and is approved by the Vice Provost for Student Success and the Provost. The recipient has excelled in assessment completion, quality of assessment, how assessment is used to make improvements, how others are encouraged about the importance of assessment, assist others in their assessment, volunteer with assessment and/or accreditation opportunities on campus, and have positive interactions with the assessment office and the assessment committee.
Award Winners
- 2023 - 2024, Tracy Enger, Nursing
- 2022 - 2023, Sven Egenhoff, Geology & Geological Engineering
- 2021 - 2022, Amber Johnson, Nurse Anesthesia
- 2020 - 2021, Deborah Worley, Education
- 2019 - 2020, Brooke Solberg, Medical Laboratory Science