Student Affairs Assessment

Learn how you can measure and evaluate the effectiveness of your programs, share the data with other Student Affairs staff, and use that knowledge to improve student services.

Assessment projects help you and your staff:

• Benchmark best practices
• Measure student satisfaction and learning
• Track student participation and evaluate program results
• Focus on your most important program or service needs
• Determine the effectiveness of existing programs
• Share this collected data with other staff
• Create useful models that others can use
• Use assessment results to develop more effective programs and services

See Student Affairs Assessment: Background and Principles and Student Affairs Learning Goal Areas (PDF) for more information.

Get involved:

• Assessment Workshop Series: Strengthen your assessment skill set by attending workshops led by Student Affairs colleagues (workshop materials are also available online after each event).

• Assessment Coalition: All Student Affairs staff members are invited and encouraged to join the coalition.

• Assessment Coalition Steering Committee: The committee guides and promotes Student Affairs assessment efforts across all units.

Learning outcomes materials:

• Assessment Types (PDF)
• Assessment Methods (PDF)
• Learning Outcomes Assessment Institute, presented by Marilee J. Bresciani, Ph.D., December 6 and 13, 2010:
  • Enhancing Outcomes-Based Assessment for Student Affairs, presentation slides (PowerPoint / PDF)
  • Typical Components of an Assessment Plan and Report (Word / PDF)
  • Outcome Delivery Mapping Worksheet (Excel / PDF)
• ABCD Learning Outcome Statement Examples (PDF)

Assessment tools and resources:

• Campus Labs: Read about the consulting firm assisting with Student Affairs assessment projects, and learn how to use Campus Labs services for your assessment projects.

• Profiles of completed assessment projects: Learn from your Student Affairs colleagues by exploring profiles of their successful assessment projects. Information includes purpose, materials, tools, sample surveys, and more.

• Assessment Buddies: Get help from experienced UCSD Student Affairs colleagues who can walk you through your first StudentVoice assessment project. To find a buddy or for more information, contact Tony Jakubisin, (858) 822-2255.

• Instructions for Entering Assessment Projects into Compliance Assist: Learn how to use Compliance Assist to enter assessment projects and link them to divisional goals and learning outcomes.

• Additional assessment resources: Link to assessment Web sites, collected data, books, articles, and more.

Note:  This page has a friendly link that's easy to remember: http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/assessment

Departments

Student Affairs Staff

• New Employee Checklist
• Social Events
• All-Staff Meetings
• Forms & Resources
• Assessment
  • Coalition Steering Committee
  • Coalition
  • Resources
  • Background and Principles
  • Campus Labs (formerly Student Voice)
  • Workshops
  • Instructions for Entering Assessment Plans into Compliance Assist
  • Profiles of Completed Assessment Projects
• Successful Student Service Training
• Professional Development
• Diversity Workgroup
• Student Conduct Code Revision Workgroup