CEAS Assessment

"Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning. It involves making our expectations explicit and public; setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality; systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards; and using the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance. When it is embedded effectively within larger institutional systems, assessment can help us focus our collective attention, examine our assumptions, and create a shared academic culture dedicated to assuring and improving the quality of higher education”.

The purpose of this web site is to provide information on the assessment activities within the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

• The CEAS Assessment Action Plan broadly describes the plan developed by the college and departments to assess our programs. Assessment activities are divided into two categories:
  • assessments coordinated at the departmental level
  • assessments coordinated by the college (college-wide assessments)
    
    
  In both cases the method of evaluating the results of the assessment tools is described. This page also has links to various survey forms used by the college, as well as links to numerical results of each survey.
  
  
• The College and Departmental Assessment Pages link to pages describing:
  • department mission statements and associated departmental objectives and outcomes
  • assessment matrix for courses
  • college mission statement and associated objectives
  • assessment-related curricular modifications
  • results of the various assessment tools, and the associated actions taken to eliminate perceived weaknesses
    
    
• The Glossary of Terms page serves as a glossary for assessment-related terminology, and includes some examples taken from the engineering curricula.