Academic Program Review Chair’s Workshop John E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Associate Provost Institutional Research and Effectiveness

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Measuring Progress Towards Strategic Goals and Continuous Improvement via Collaboration and the APR Process College & Department Strategic Goals IRBIHECCTALOEA

The Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning (CTAL) Office of Educational Assessment Which APR requirements can CTAL can help you with? Information about student quality, diversity, and achievements. Description of the undergraduate and graduate student learning outcomes (including clear statements of expected student learning outcomes in the areas of knowledge, skills, and competencies), assessment plans, and utilization of assessment results. Evidence of curricular improvements based on student learning outcomes and changes in the discipline or field of study. A statement of the purposes, development and planning for undergraduate and graduate education. Description of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.

CTAL Can Assist… Curricular Mapping –Enables a better understanding of how you can build on what your students already know –Minimizes gaps and repetition in the school wide curriculum –Leads to increased mastery by encouraging subjects to be revisited from different perspectives A course map can help administrators: –Assist with curriculum planning. –Identify courses that directly support program outcomes. –Inform decisions related to resource allocation. –Demonstrate the relevance of a course to the college/school or institution.

IRE Can Assist…

Student Success & Outcomes

Student Success & Outcomes

Faculty Scholarly Productivity Academic Analytics Productivity Radar Source: © 2013 Academic Analytics UD Internal Use Only

Academic Benchmarking

What is the Delaware Cost Study? The National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity ( Delaware Cost Study) is a national benchmarking project and data sharing consortium among four year colleges and universities, with approximately 200 institutions participating annually. Delaware Cost Study Since 1996, nearly 600 institutions have participated, and over the past two decades, the Cost Study has matured to become the “tool of choice” for comparative analysis of faculty teaching loads, direct instructional costs, and separately budgeted scholarly activity, all within academic disciplines.600 institutions have participated Currently, the Cost Study is used major data and state agencies including: – Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE) – Southern Universities Group (SUG) – University of North Carolina (UNC) System – Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PaSSHE) – University of Missouri System – University of Nebraska System – Connecticut State University System (CSUS) – City University of New York System (CUNY)

Benchmarking - Institutional Reports

Benchmarking - Academic Program Reviews

Delaware Cost Study Sample Institutional Report

Benchmarking College and Unit Improvement

What parts of the APR can we address? 2.A statement of the purposes, development and planning for undergraduate education. Statistical data on course enrollments, class size, and number of majors and number of minors. Information about student quality, diversity and achievements. Description of the undergraduate student learning outcomes, assessment plans, and utilization of assessment results.(CTAL) Estimation of revenue generated by tuition.

What parts of the APR can we address? cont’d 2.A statement of the purposes, development and planning for graduate education. Statistical data: size of graduate program(s) including: number and diversity of students in masters and doctoral programs, and number of funded students, source of funding and comparison of funding to (aspirational) peer programs. Time-to-degree completion and degree completion statistics for the graduate program. Quality of graduate students as defined by numerical indicators. Description of graduate student learning outcomes, assessment plans and utilization of assessment results.(CTAL) 4.Staffing of the unit. Breakdown of FTE faculty, professionals and salaried staff by rank, function, workload, race, age, and gender. Information concerning the use of non-faculty instructors (if any) in the unit, either teaching assistants or supplemental contract holders. Demographic data to set the unit into a University-wide context.

Take Away: Resources on Campus are Available! Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning supports programs as they pursue APR by helping faculty design their evaluations of program quality to ascertain how well students are obtaining the programmatic student learning outcomes. Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning Institutional Research and Effectiveness (including IR, Business Intelligence (UDEW) supports departmental Academic Program Review by providing department-specific trend information related to student enrollment, student success and outcomes, personnel, instructional costs and productivity, and faculty scholarly productivity. Institutional Research and EffectivenessBusiness Intelligence The Delaware Cost Study is a useful tool for providing comparative analysis of faculty teaching loads, direct instructional costs, and separately budgeted scholarly activity, all within academic disciplines.Delaware Cost Study