Assessment of Student Learning
Assessment at Urbana University is an ongoing faculty-driven process aimed at understanding and improving student learning and success. The assessment process entails the following goals:
- Making the University’s expectations explicit and public
- Setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality
- Systematically gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards
- Using the resulting information to document, explain and improve performance
- Creating a shared academic culture dedicated to assuring and improving the quality of higher education
In order to achieve the goals above, the University follows a cyclical model including the following steps reiterated with each assessment cycle:
- Developing or refining outcomes
- Planning assessment activities
- Collecting and evaluating data
- Documenting and reporting results and recommendations for improvement
- Implementing recommended changes
- Assessing to see whether learning has improved