Department Annual Report Guidelines

2005-2006 Academic Year

The annual reports fill an important role in enabling the Division of Academic Affairs to engage in planning and in monitoring progress toward meeting the objectives of the College’s strategic plan. In addition, these reports are useful for the re-accreditation of the college. Reports should be submitted electronically to Nonnie Tangen at tangen@cord.edu by September 30, 2006.

The Assessment Committee will respond to Part II of the department annual report but will not have access to the information submitted in Part I.

Part I: Department Planning Information

Write a brief summary describing this year’s accomplishments and next year’s plans. I do not want to burden you with an exhaustive report. Rather, it would be helpful for me to have a general sense of what is happening in your department/program. Related to this, I request an opportunity to meet with every department next year.

Part II: Assessment of Student Learning

A. Briefly describe the actions you took based on the recommendations of the Assessment Committee on last year’s report.

B. List your department/program’s most important goals for student learning and the corresponding measurable student learning outcomes.

C. Describe your department/program’s plan to assess these student learning outcomes. The plan should identify the specific methods for data collection and analysis and will ideally include both direct and indirect measures of student learning. The plan should also include a timeline for implementation.

D. Identify the assessment activities that your program has used in the past year.

E. Describe how your program is using assessment results to improve student learning. What changes or revisions are being made/will be made based on the data that you have collected? What specific steps will you take to make additional improvements?

F. Based on this year’s report, what changes, if any, are you planning to make in your assessment plan for next year?

View rubric used by assessment committee when reading and responding to department annual reports.

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