Academic assessment & institutional effectiveness
Planning, evaluation, and assessment processes that ensure institutional quality and support continuous improvement across every academic, administrative, and student support unit at Jackson State University.
What is Institutional Effectiveness?
Institutional Effectiveness at JSU is responsible for the planning, evaluation, and assessment processes at the university to ensure institutional quality.
Institutional Effectiveness is an integrated and systematic process that documents measuring performance aligned with the mission of the university. IE efforts support strategic planning and facilitate planning, evaluation, and assessment of educational programs, administrative, academic, and student support units within the institution.
- Office
- Institutional Effectiveness
- Purpose
- Ensure institutional quality through systematic assessment
- Scope
- Educational, administrative, academic, and student support units
- Alignment
- The mission of Jackson State University
- Use of Results
- Data-informed continuous improvement
A systematic, ongoing process
JSU has a systematic and ongoing assessment reporting process that identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which they are achieved, and uses results for data-informed continuous improvement.
Assessment plans vs. assessment reports
The assessment cycle produces two distinct deliverables — one looking forward to what will be measured, the other looking back at what was learned and what changed.
- Desired program goals
- Student learning outcomes (SLOs)
- Assessment methods by which SLOs will be assessed
- Appropriate numeric criterion of success
- The assessment results
- Actions implemented for continuous improvement
- Artifacts describing data collection, analysis, and review