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Overview:
Institutional and programmatic assessment activities are often focused on the collection of data but not always on getting to the right people in a format that is useful, engaging, and accessible. A weak report may cause a good project to get overlooked, have a negative impact on funding, or jeopardize accreditation.
This on-demand webcast will show you best practices for creating programmatic and institutional assessment reports that captivate your leaders and stakeholders.
Target Audience:
Institutional researchers and assessment professionals who have some experience with assessment and data collection, and are interested in exploring reporting options and issues will learn how to:
- Identify a variety of reporting options and decisions
- Think through the choices that guide reporting decisions
- Evaluate a reporting method using four criteria that reflect best practices in reporting
- Develop a reporting plan
Program Agenda:
| ON-DEMAND Presentation |
| Live Session Took Place On Friday, June 27, 2008 |
- Effective reporting: The plan
- The initial questions
- Reporting choices
- Criteria for best practice
- The initial questions
- What, why, and when of reporting
- Purpose of the assessment
- Methodology
- Formative assessment for improvement (on-going information)
- Summative assessment (evaluation, reporting)
- Uses and audiences of assessment
- Internal vs. external stakeholders
- Internal to institution
- Decision making
- Program evaluation and improvement
- Budget allocations
- Marketing and education
- Interventions
- Program development
- External to institution
- Accreditation reports
- Grant reports
- Benchmarking
- Performance measurement
- Publicity for alumni news, local media, etc.
- Criteria for reporting
- Ethical reporting/confidentiality
- Transparency issues
- Accessibility and ease of understanding
- Fits the audience
- Usefulness and links to practice
- Developing a reporting plan
- Examples in action & lessons learned
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Instructor:
Moderator
Sherry A. Woosley, Associate Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Academic Assessment and Institutional Research, Ball State University
Sherry is responsible for numerous university-wide assessment activities and provides assessment consulting to academic and student affairs departments. She has published articles in the Journal of College Student Development, the NASPA Journal, the Journal of College Student Retention, the College Student Journal, and Assessment Update. She is past president of the Indiana Association for Institutional Research, a directorate member of the ACPA's Commission for Assessment and Evaluation, and has been an invited faculty member at the Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment. She has also made numerous presentations at NASPA, ACPA, Association for Institutional Research, FYE, and various retention and assessment conferences. Sherry oversees a number of university-wide surveys, works with academic and student affairs departments to develop assessment projects, and serves on various assessment and data committees.
Ordering Information:
Ordering
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