Administrative Unit Checklist

Use the Administrative Unit Checklist below as a guide when developing your unit assessment plan and report.

1. Institutional mission and program mission statements:

2. Departmental/unit intended outcomes:

Do you have a manageable number of intended outcomes? 3-6 is common.
Have you met and collaborated as a unit in determining your intended outcomes?
Are your intended outcomes clear, simple, straightforward, and nontechnical statements of what your program wants to happen as a result of its activities?

3. Assessment methods and criteria for success (benchmarks):

Have you used multiple means of assessment for each unit intended outcome? For every intended outcome, include at least two means of assessing that outcome.
Is there a clear, logical connection between the unit intended outcome and the chosen method of assessment?
For any given outcome, have you tried to use direct means of assessment wherever possible (e.g., campus safety public records as opposed to perceptions of public safety)?
Have you included enough detail in your plan such that it is clear to any reader what is being assessed how and when?
Have you indicated a benchmark for each means of assessment?
Is each benchmark stated clearly?
In setting each benchmark, have you been ambitious but yet realistic?
Do you have unit consensus as to the chosen methods of assessment and benchmarks?

4. Data/results:

Are the data cited in the report relevant in that they help answer the question "were the intended outcomes achieved?"
Are sufficient data provided such that the reader can tell that the described assessments actually occurred?

5. Use of results:

Have you indicated actions your program has taken in response to your assessment findings (i.e., have you "closed the loop")?
Do the actions cited logically flow from the intended outcomes and assessment methods used?
Did you meet and collaborate as a unit when making decisions regarding actions taken in response to the findings?