Meta-Assessment: Assessing the Learning Outcomes Assessment Program

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Kevin Schoepp, Zayed University
Scott Benson, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Innovative Higher Education

Publication Date

8-1-2016

Abstract

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Assessing the effectiveness of an assessment program is essential and can be accomplished through analysing the quality of closing the loop actions and through gathering faculty feedback. In this article we present closing the loop data from over 3 years of learning assessment reporting and from findings garnered through a faculty survey. Results indicated that moving from deciding on closing the loop actions to actually taking meaningful actions remains a challenge and that faculty members are aware of this challenge. We use these findings, along with findings and recommendations found in the existing literature, to suggest assessment program improvements and demonstrate the effectiveness of this method of meta-assessment.

ISSN

0742-5627

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Volume

41

Issue

4

First Page

287

Last Page

301

Disciplines

Education

Keywords

Assessment, Closing the loop, Meta-assessment, Student learning outcomes

Scopus ID

84945550383

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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