College-Wide Assessment and WEAVEonline Basics

for TCC Administrators

Steven H. Wilson, Ph.D.Dean, Academic Assessment

Thinking About How to Organize and Implement Assessment for

Your TCC Division, Unit, or Office

ObjectivesBecome familiar with the WEAVEonline siteUnderstand WEAVEonline functions & rolesLearn how to build and manage YOUR entityLearn how to enter, review, edit, and use

goals, outcomes, measures, and resultsLearn how to enter, review, edit, and use

action plans and analysis questionsLearn how to build and manage reports

Administrative Tools & Tabs

As an Entity Administrator, these are the Admin Tools accessible to you

TCC Entity Tree

Sub-entities to be added, assessed and tracked might be drawn from the TCC Org Chart

Note: You will only be able to add,

delete, or edit outcomes, objectives, etc., that belong to YOUR Entity or its Sub-entities

Administrative Unit vs. Academic Program

Assessment WorksheetAcademic Division: Contact person: Assessment cycle/year:

Discipline or Program: Email address:

Mission/PurposeMission/Purpose: highest aims, intentions, and objectives.

[Course, Discipline, or Program] Goals:Goal: broad statement(s) about desired ends.

Goal 1.

Goal 2.

Goal 3.

Assessment Summary

Student Learning Outcomes

Measure(s) Achievement Targets Findings Action Plans

Student Learning Outcome: measurable active-verb description of a desired result related to goal(s).

Measure: method to gauge achievement of expected

outcome.

Achievement Target: faculty-set level for satisfactory

performance on a Measure-Outcome combination.

Findings: assessment results for comparison of actual vs. expected achievement level. Plus: # of students assessed.

Action Plan: specific activity designed to help accomplish intended outcomes in future.

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Questions [Longer-term needs or objectives developed by faculty/discipline/division]

Ex. Based on your findings and action plans, what primary changes will you make for student learning? Program outcomes? Changes to the assessment process?

 

Annual Report Items [developed by Assessment Office]

Ex. Contributions to other initiatives, Executive Summary, Annual Highlights, Teaching and Research Activities, etc.

 

Outcomes/Objectives Worksheet

Assessment Tools & Tabs

Examples of how Goals, Outcomes, etc.,

can be useful for an Administrative Unit

Example ofAcademic Unit Demo Report

Example of Administrative Unit Demo

Assessment & Report

Associations, i.e., Accrediting and Certification Standards,

Regulations, and the TCC Strategic Plan

AssociationsTerm Synonyms WEAVE definition

General Education

Core Curriculum

Selected General Education / Core Curriculum associations.

Institutional Priorities

Vision Items of urgency or importance to the institution.

Standards Accreditation, regional or discipline-specific

Acknowledged set of requirements fostering excellence.

Strategic Plans

AlignmentPlanning

A long-term, practical, action-oriented document resulting from strategic planning.

Examples of Associations already available for TCC, and how they appear and are used in the goals & outcomes view

Action Plans and Tracking

Closing the Loop

Term Synonyms WEAVE definition

Action Plans

ChangesImprovementsPlanningClosing the Loop

Activity sequence designed to help entity better accomplish intended outcomes/objectives.

Analysis Questions

Program ReviewReflection

Queries designed by the institution that show for all entities; some may be labeled for subset.

Annual Reports

Yearly SummaryBig Picture

Report Sections designed by the institution.

Action Plan Tracking1

Action Plan Tracking2

Achievement Target Summary

Analysis Questions

Analysis Questions

Results and Reporting

Questions?

Contact: Steven H. Wilson, Ph.D.

Dean, Academic Assessment

steven.wilson@tulsacc.edux7959