Addressing Six Critical Questions of Senior Administrators Using WEAVEonline

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Addressing Six Critical Questions of Senior
Administrators Using WEAVEonline

• Jeanne Butler, Ph.D.
• Director of Assessment
• University of Nebraska Kearney

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Focus on Curriculum Issues

• Assessment typically focuses on using student
  learning outcomes data to help academic
  departments or programs make decisions about
  changes in the curriculum.

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Focus on Administrators Issues

• Assessment should also answer critical
  questions of administrators including those of
  the provost/chancellor, vice chancellors, deans
  and department chairs

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Value to Administrators

• Administrators are more likely to support the
  use of WEAVEonline when they see the value to the
  institution of an application that collects
  essential information and makes it accessible to
  key personnel.

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Six Administrative Issues

1. Accreditation
2. Accountability
3. Alignment
4. Budgeting
5. Strategic Planning
6. Decision Making

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Accreditation Questions

• How can our institution
• track compliance with all
• the different accreditation
• requirements of regional,
• disciplinary, and other
• agencies?

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Accreditation Entity

• Set up entities by accreditationSACS, NCA, ABET,
  NCATE, AACSB
• Set up standards as learning outcomes (wording
  from accrediting agency)
• Track compliance and results under measures and
  findings
• Supporting documentation can be uploaded into the
  document repository

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Accreditation Tracking
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Associating Multiple Standards
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Relating Outcomes to Two Sets of Standards
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ABET Mapping of Criterion 3 to Program Outcomes
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Accountability Questions

• How can we make our institutions student
  learning outcomes accessible and transparent to
  all stakeholders?

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Accessible Information

• Different stakeholders should have access to
  appropriate information
• Students
• Faculty
• Parents
• Employers
• Taxpayers

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Access to the DAR
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Alignment Questions

• How do we identify where General Education and
  other core learning outcomes are being
  introduced, reinforced, and evaluated?

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Mapping Level of Instruction with General
Education Outcomes
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Identifying Writing Skills in Different Majors
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Budgeting Questions

• How can we identify the costs of necessary
  curricular and other changes that are identified
  during the reporting of assessment data

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Resources Requested
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Action Plan Tracking
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Future Action Plan Tracking
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Strategic Planning Questions

• How can we track implementation of our
  institutions strategic plan through the
  department and program level

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Tracking Levels of the Strategic Plan
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Strategic Plan Profile
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Decision Making Questions

• Where can I access critical student and program
  performance data to use in decision making and
  reporting to others in the administration?

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Annual/Special Report

• Set up APRs as the Annual Report
• Identify specific data needed from multiple
  groups
• Community Project
• Events
• Service Learning
• Campus-wide applications

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Program Review Topics
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Program Review Reporting
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Contact Information

• Jeanne Butler
• Office of Assessment
• University of Nebraska Kearney
• assessment_at_unk.edu

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Questions/Information

• How have you used reports and other WEAVEonline
  functions to provide information to
  administrators?
• Please send your responses and any questions to
  Matt Urey at WEAVEonline.
• murey_at_weaveonline.com