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February 29, 2024

Unpacking the New WASC Standards for Evidence-Based Improvement

Disjointed and hard-to-access data is one of the biggest challenges facing higher ed institutions today. Or is it an opportunity? Acknowledging your obstacles to centralize...

February 27, 2024

How to Develop Program Goals in Higher Education

Setting rigorous growth goals for your students is critical to their academic success. Assessment data provides the insights needed to set those goals—and to deliver...

Four Assessment Trends in Higher Education

The word "Authentic" was selected as the 2023 word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary; it was one of the most reviewed words in the dictionary's 500,000 entries....

October 13, 2023

MSCHE Revised Its Evidence Requirements—Are you ready?

In July 2023, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) launched its newly revised accreditation standards which explicitly call for more concrete evidence of...

June 1, 2023

Designing a Program Scorecard for Continuous Improvement

The purpose of an office of institutional effectiveness is to collect, manage and distribute evidential data that is used to inform decision-making. If the data is not...

May 25, 2023

How to Digitally Transform Assessment in Higher Ed

We’ve established what Digital Transformation (Dx) is for higher education and why it’s important. But embracing digital transformation at your institution and actually...

Digital Transformation for Assessment in Higher Education

Over the last 20 years, the world has experienced a technological surge unlike any seen before. This new digital age has introduced many changes — some advantageous, some...

February 23, 2023

8 Ways to Make Your Self-Study Meaningful Beyond Accreditation

Self studies serve a number of important purposes besides reaccreditation. Taking a deeper dive into your institutional effectiveness and improvement data regularly can help...

September 8, 2022

Defining a Proficiency Scale for Your Institutional Outcomes

As higher education leaders who are focused on supporting student learning and enabling their proficiency in requisite skills for professional practice in careers, it is...

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