Hope College | Assessment

Welcome to the Assessment Committee's Web site. Our purpose is to help you understand the needs and requirements for assessment in your course, department, division, office or program. Assessment may sound intimidating, but a well designed assessment program will help you and our students achieve the goals you have set out. Assessment can be viewed as a way of measuring whether we have succeeded in reaching our goals, and using this information to feed back into our programs, making changes and improvements as necessary. On these pages you will find useful information about the Hope College assessment program, as well as suggestions you can implement in your department to help gather, interpret, and use assessment data. The committee is here to help you, so if you have any questions, please contact one of us. We can help!

September 14, October 12, November 9, December 7, January 12, February 9, March 9 & April 13
All meetings will be held at 11am in the Presidents' Room of Graves Hall.

Assessment Committee Members, 2006 - 2007:

Director of Assessment and Co-Chair of the Committee: Scott VanderStoep
Co-Chair: Jon Huisken
Director of General Education (ex-officio): Carol Simon
Academic Affairs Board Liaison: Graham Peaslee
CIT (ex-officio): Carl Heideman
Dean of Students (ex-officio): Richard Frost
Alumni Director (ex-officio): Mary Remenschneider
Dean of Social Sciences (ex-officio): Nancy Miller
Natural Sciences: Mike Misovich
Social Sciences: John Shaughnessy, Yooyeun Hwang
Humanities: Lee Forester, Anne Larsen
Arts: Ray Tadio, Charles Aschbrenner
Natural Sciences: Nathan Tintle
Student Rep #1: Seth Carlson
Student Rep #2: Jeffrey Swift

The Assessment Committee conducted an information session and focus group for students to discuss NSSE results. The Academic Affairs Board conducted similar focus groups. Click here to read the AcAB's summary of student comments.