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Welcome to Assessment |
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at Florida Atlantic University |
| Mission Statement: | |
| The mission of Assessment is to provide university-wide support for: | |
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Assessment of student learning outcomes |
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Planning and reporting on assessment activities (formative as well as summative). |
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Continuous improvement activities at the course, program and institutional levels |
| Moreover, Assessment strives to collaborate with faculty, administrators and other staff to develop and sustain, across the university, a community-supported and endorsed culture of assessment. | |
| Values: | |
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Supporting Faculty in their quest to help students to learn |
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Continuous improvement of student learning |
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Collaboration with faculty and staff |
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Shared responsibility and shared resources |
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Use of technology to achieve efficiency |
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Responsiveness |
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Open communication and listening |
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Evidence-based / Data-driven decisions and changes |
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Rigorous, high-quality, and useful assessment data such as authentic performance-based assessment and embedded curriculum-based assessments of student abilities, skills (e.g., written and oral communications, quantitative literacy, critical thinking), and knowledge (especially analysis and synthesis as opposed to simple memorization). |
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10.) |
Use assessment data for program improvement |
