Outcomes-Based Academic and Co-Curricular Program Review [OP]: A Compilation of Institutional Good Practices

Very detailed and it really helped me conceptualize the assessment planning process. I will refer back to this book for quite sometime.

A must read for anybody in higher education who wants to create a quality academic program review.

Excellent evaluation tool

This book helped me with some outcome objects for a program I submit to the college.

This book is a compilation of institutional assessment good practices. It talks about both academic and co-curricular program reviews with several cases as examples. I am glad that the Division of Student Affairs at Texas A&M University is one of the cases chosen. Based on my own experience and observation throughout the years, the quality of their student services has improved a lot since when I first attended graduate school there.Chapter two of the book talks about the importance of quality assurance and external accountability in Higher Education in a way that is convincing. Chapter three is a basic guide to performing a program review. It presents a template for the review report. Basically, it is a short overview of the "how-to" part of doing a program review. Then, chapter 4 discusses the criteria of good practices of outcome-based assessment program review. Examples include (1) clear understanding of goals and expectations for program review, (2) collaboration, (3) use of results, (4) awards and recognition, and (5) resources to support program review, etc. Chapter seven talks about long-term measures for improving program assessment.The major contribution of this book lies in the nuggets of wisdom from the university program assessment good practices. Such examples include (1) let the faculty be involved in what to assess and how to do assessment, (2) promote faculty's affiliation with the institution, so as to remove existing disincentives to participation in university citizenship (faculty need to see how they contribute to the decision-making process of program improvement), (3) administrative leaders must show that they value assessment and faculty must understand the negative consequence of not doing it, and (4) use assessment results for improvement, faculty/staff development (not for reprimanding nor personnel decisions), for informing strategic planning, and for implementing institutional goals. Solid evidence-based program reviews can offset to-be-improved outside rankings.This is a good book for administrators who would like to improve program assessment of their institutions.

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