Welcome! The goal of the Assessment Corner
is to provide you with information that’s useful to your assessment process. Assessment is not meant to be a burden.It's a process that shows if the goals and objectives defined by your
unit's mission statement are being accomplished. In this Corner, you'll find assessment guidelines, tips, links to other
websites, and other information that will unravel the assessment mystery.
Check
out What's New With Assessment?
Here you'll
find what's going on with assessment at Coastal, completion dates for CHE
reports, dates for selected student surveys, and other useful information.
Assessment
Contact Information:
Chris Mee, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment, christin@coastal.edu
What
Is Assessment And Why Is It Important?
Assessment is an ongoing process
aimed at understanding and improving student learning.
Assessment involves:
making
our expectations explicit and public;
setting
appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality;
systematically
gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards; and
using the
resulting information to document, explain and improve performance.
The purpose
of assessment is to produce feedback to
the department, college, or administrative unit on the performance of its
curriculum, learning process, and/or services, thereby allowing each unit
to improve its programs.
Assessment is not an evaluation of individual students or of individual faculty or
staff.
Assessment
Process At Coastal Carolina University
Questions Or Suggestions? Contact Chris Mee, Director of Institutional
Research and Assessment, christin@coastal.edu
