📋 Overview
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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 in accordance following commonly accepted good practice in higher education and aligned with the expectations of the State University System of Florida Board of Governors (BOG) and 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 https://www.usf.edu/ods/accreditation/assessment-standards.aspx USF Assessment Standards (page 8), designed by the Office of Decision Support - Institutional Effectiveness (ODS-IE).
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The ratings assigned to each program are as follows: |
Approved (2022 and beyond), Compliant (2017-2021), Developed and Highly Developed (2016-2017): All elements of the Plan/Report meet SACSCOC/BOG standardsthe USF Assessment Standards
Non-Compliant 1: 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.
Non-Complaint 2: Components are missing from the document.
On Hold: There are no students available, or, there is another reason that has provided an approved delay in submission.
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Programs in the College of Engineering and most of the programs in the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences complete these reports based on calendar years (January 1st - December 31st), while all others (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, Taneja College of Pharmacy) complete them based on academic years, with preceding summer terms included. The alignment of colleges with years included in assessment plans/reports can be found in the table:
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College of Engineering | All other Academic Colleges |
College of Behavioral and Community Sciences: Department of Child & Family Studies, Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, School of Aging Studies | College of Behavioral & Community Sciences: Department of Criminology, School of Social Work, Interdisciplinary Behavioral & Community Sciences Ph.D. |
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📖 Report Pages
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Each page in the Dashboard contains slightly different information. |
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Longitudinal: This page contains an overview of assessment compliance from the 2017-2018 academic year (for academic year colleges)/calendar year 2018 (for calendar year colleges) to the current year. The proportion of Compliance to Non-Compliance over time is a valuable tool to help identify the extent to which faculty have been able to produce assessment materials.
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📊 Glossary: Definitions
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Major |
Example: CIP Code 45.0201:
CIP Code 11.0401:
| The “Majors” tab only includes majors that are not also Certificates |
📎 Additional Resources
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Find other sources of information that might assist in understanding more about assessment at USF. |
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The programs included in the assessment process are also those found in the Institutional Summary Form provided by USF to SACSCOC upong reaffirmation | Institutional Summary Form (Access Required) |
Academic Assessment Standards | https://www.usf.edu/ods/accreditation/assessment-standards.aspx |
Assessment Scoring Rubrics: Assessment Handbook, pg. 19 |