📋 Overview

Welcome to the documentation supporting the Assessment Compliance Report at USF!

The Report is designed to provide Deans and other institutional leaders with one-stop information on the level to which academic programs (Majors and Certificates)* provide required annual assessment reporting and planning following commonly accepted good practice in higher education and aligned with the expectations of USF’s current institutional accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Compliance with the requirements of these external stakeholders is assigned via a series of rubrics detailing the USF Assessment Standards (USF Academic Assessment Handbook, page 8), designed by the Office of Decision Support - Institutional Effectiveness (ODS-IE).

Every year, each Each program submits an annual Assessment Report for the previous year and an Assessment Plan for the upcoming year. Once Plans/Reports are submitted, ODS-IE reviews them according to the Assessment Standards and affiliated Rubrics, and assigns a rating , and provides specific feedback based on the rating. ODS-IE then works with the program to complete edits as needed based on rating; not all programs achieve the highest rating. Programs that struggle to achieve the highest rating might benefit from additional faculty development resources in the area of assessment.

*At a minimum, academic programs included in the assessment reporting and planning requirements are those identified all unique Majors and Certificates (see Definitions below). Some program faculty choose to complete additional assessment Reports and Plans for Concentrations, however this is generally discouraged. These are listed on USF’s Institutional Summary Form provided to SACSCOC upon reaffirmation. Additional assessments may be tracked based on recommendations and requests from program faculty.

1. Approved (2022 and beyond), Compliant (2017-2021), Developed and Highly Developed (2016-2017): All elements of the Plan/Report meet the USF Assessment Standards

2. Reviewed with Comments (Minor Revisions) (2022 and beyond), Non-Compliant 1 (2017-2021), and Emerging (2016-2017): Minor revisions would be required to bring the document into compliance. These often include but are not limited to: including the total number of students assessed, ensuring that some form of inter-rater agreement data is collected or planned to be collected for assessment methods with a subjective scale (such as a scoring rubric for a project), and not including specific action items resulting from the use of the assessment results.

3. Reviewed with Comments (Majors Revisions) (2022 and beyond), Non-Complaint 2 (2017-2021), and Initial (2016-2017): Components are missing from the document or are entirely outside the scope of commonly accepted good practice. Examples of major revisions needed are the use of the phrase “we will continue to monitor this outcome” in the “Use of Assessment Results” section of an Assessment Report or the exclusive use of course grades or course passing as the “Methods of Assessment” section of an Assessment Plan.

4. On Hold/NA: There are no students available, or, there is another reason that has provided an approved delay in submission.

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Majors: This page contains information related to the compliance of assessment submissions from the 2021 2022 Report and 2022 2023 Plan for the academic majors of USF. The page can be filtered by College to provide additional detail. By hovering over the “slice” of the pie charts that are of interest, specific numbers of programs will be shown. The total number of Majors listed will be the same for the 2021 Assessment Reports and 2022 Assessment Plans, and any programs that have been or were in the process of termination during that period will be indicated with the “On Hold” designation. To see the specific programs rated as “Non-Compliant 1,” “Non-Compliant 2,” and “On Hold,” see the “Non Compliance List” page.

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