**Program Assessment Form (At least one of these forms should be completed for each educational support service unit)

Educational Support Service Unit:  School of Education __________ Planning Cycle 2003-2004 Year _____ Page _1_ of ­­ _3_

 

Educational Support Service Objectives

* 3-5 major ones for each educational support unit recommended

Measures to be Used/Criteria for Success

How will you measure the outcome?

Multiple measures may be used. To what degree, do you expect these outcomes to be present?

Actual Results

Obtained

When you measured, (observed, surveyed, etc.) what did you find?

Uses of Results for

 

What impact did this have on the unit? How will you use this for improvements? This should lead Directly to next year’s plan.

 

1.  To ensure that the professional education curriculum prepares teacher candidates to teach all students in the PK-12 school

1a.  Analysis of Praxis II specialty area assessments.  Programs will analyze data and program changes may be made based on data analysis

 

1b.  Analysis of Praxis II Principles of Learning and Teaching pedagogical assessment.  Program change may be made based upon data analysis

 

1c.  Analysis of Exit Portfolio summative data.  Program changes may be made upon data analysis

 

1d.  Analysis of survey data to graduates who are first year teachers employed in Arkansas and to their employing principals.  Program changes may be made based upon data analysis

 

1e.  Analysis of Praxis III data supplied by the Arkansas Department of Education.  (Begin in 2003)

 

 

 

 

2.  To ensure that department heads and faculty members in the School of Education receive information relative to their assignments and teaching duties in a timely fashion.

2a.  Email pertinent information and reminders to faculty in a reasonal time (ex. within one day) after it becomes available. 

 

2b.  The School Leadership Team (department heads and the Director of Teacher Education Student Services) will meet regularly (ex. bimonthly) as documented by agendas etc.

 

2c.  Discuss as appropriate Deans Council agenda items of Deans Council with Leadership Team at the regularly scheduled meetings  

 

2d.  Send a representative to Deans Council when dean is unable to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. To prepare the unit for the NCATE accreditation visit in Spring 2005

 

3a.  Establishment of an NCATE Self Study Writing Team for each standard by September,2003.

 

3b.  Schedule meetings of NCATE Steering Committee regularly (ex. bimonthly) to work on accreditation issues.

 

3c. Reach consensus on the update of the changing conceptual framework by November, 2003 . 

 

3d. Design electronic “exhibits room” and determine documents list be October, 2003

 

3e. Begin process of uploading documents by October, 2003.

 

 

 

 

3f. Continued refinement of Unit Assessment Plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. To improve communication with departments housing secondary education programs

4a.  Have regularly scheduled meetings (ex. monthly) on accreditation issues and curriculum revision and improvement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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