Assessment Methods for Student Affairs: An Introduction

"Prove it.”

Those words are being heard a lot on college campuses today.

Budgets are tight, and every area faces scrutiny.

It’s not enough to simply claim your student affairs programs are delivering value. Increasingly, you’re being asked to demonstrate it.

Administrations are demanding accountability...often in the form of assessments.

Because of that, it is absolutely essential that you have a sound, solid assessment methodology in place.

If you can’t trust your methods, you can’t trust your results...and you leave yourself open for nasty surprises.

John Schuh, PhD. distinguished professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University shares his wealth of knowledge about every stage of the assessment process from initial steps to final reporting.

In 90 information-packed minutes, we address:

• The importance of assessment to student affairs programs.
• How it can help you in planning and program development.
• The eleven key questions to ask before you start.
• Elements of a comprehensive assessment model.
• Why you should start modestly and aim for "small successes."
• Effective qualitative and quantitative approaches.
• Proper use of focus groups.
• Basic sampling methods.
• How to boost response rates.
• Characteristics of good assessment questions.
• Methods of analyzing results.
• Benchmarking.

It’s the information you need to make sure you’re creating assessments that give the true measure of your program’s worth.

Who will benefit from this seminar:

• Vice presidents for student affairs
• Deans of students
• Directors and assistant directors of student affairs units, including:
  
  • Student activities
  • Student affairs coordinators
  • Housing
  • Residence life 
  • Career services 
  • Tutoring and testing 
  • Rec sports

   

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