Step 1: Create your assessment plan individually or as a team.

1. Focus on assessment as a tool for improving the quality of the educational experience.
2. Add minimally to your already heavy workload.
3. Focus on essential areas for your program.
4. Collect data that is usable and worthwhile to you.
5. Use existing data as much as possible.
6. Incorporate assessment into the routine functions of your unit.
7. Use a cycle of assessment so that each of your planned outcomes is assessed within 3 - 5 years.
8. Coordinate your efforts with your colleagues.
9. Identify the responsibilities of each person involved.
10. Focus on learning, not on individual student or instructor performance.

Step 2: When your assessment plan is ready, begin reporting your assessment activities in your on-line assessment database.

Use the printed templates to help you construct and report valid assessment activities.

PDF & Word versions of the templates

The files linked below contain :

1. Guide to completing assessment templates
2. Report and schedule templates

Use the Word file to create a draft to save to your computer. The PDF version works well for printing.

Instructional Templates	MS Word	PDF
Non-Instructional Report Guide & Template	MS Word	PDF

After completing templates in Word, "copy and paste" your work into the online database templates.