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Spring 1999 * Volume 1 * Number 1 WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER This is the first edition of the Assessment newsletter. The objectives of this newsletter are:
CONFERENCE OF INTEREST The American Association for Higher Education will be holding its 1999 Assessment Conference, Assessment as Evidence of Learning: Serving Student and Society. June 13 - 16, 1999 in Denver, Colorado. This conference comes highly recommended. If you are interested in attending,contact Jon Huisken or Richard Ray for more information.
The Hope College Assessment Plan was adopted by the Academic Affairs Board in April 1994. This plan was considered to be an adequate plan by the consultant-evaluators from the North Central Association during their decennial visit in 1994. Excerpts from the plan are presented below.
The purpose of the assessment program, simply put, is student development.
Since the purpose of assessment is to enhance student academic, social, and spiritual development, it follows that every academic and administrative unit dealing with students will develop assessment measures to determine what impact these departments and units have on student development. Every department and unit will undergo some type of assessment.
The college will employ multiple methods in its assessment program. Both quantitative and qualitative measures will be used since convergent data are more trustworthy than isolated results.
The Assessment Committee, from its inception, has assured the campus community that the North Central Association (NCA) would not, and should not, be used as the club to bring faculty and departments to the assessment table. |
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