Assessment Excellence

Faculty members (usually with student representatives) have regular meetings to share student learning outcomes data. Examples include (1) the annual Faculty Retreat, (2) the annual Chairs’ and Deans’ Workshop, (3) the annual General Education Faculty Workshop, (4) monthly University Faculty Assembly meetings, (5) periodic ePortfolio faculty meetings, (6) twice-per-semester departmental ePortfolio meetings, and (7) periodic meetings of the Institutional Improvement and Student Learning Committee. Student learning outcomes are presented in the periodic publication, ORU Assessment Newsletter , and through a number of other venues. ORU’s annual Assessment Catalog provides a record of all assessment efforts at the University, grouped by academic and service departments. The catalog fosters a cross-flow of assessment ideas between and among departments and schools. Departments can learn from what others are doing and can replicate or adapt assessment techniques. The Assessment Catalog iden...

Each academic department at Oral Roberts University has a designated faculty member to coordinate its ePortfolio processes, called a Subadministrator. The Subadministrator enters departmental outcomes, rubrics, and demographic survey questions into ePortfolio; runs reports; aggregates, disaggregates, and analyzes the performance data; informs the department and school about student progress related to learning outcomes; conducts research; and exports raw or filtered data into a database for further analysis. When interpreting the data, departments often confer with ORU’s ePortfolio Administrator or the Institutional Improvement and Student Learning Committee, which has general oversight of assessment issues. In addition to using ePortfolio to document student learning, some departments utilize major field tests and/or gather data on student success on professional or licensure exams. The University also conducts the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) Test for second s...