(564)ASSURING QUALITY THROUGH DEVELOPMENT OF EVIDENCE BASED ASSESSMENT PRACTICES: CASE STUDY ON THE VALUE OF APPLYING ASSESSMENT DATA THROUGH QUALITY MATTERS STANDARDS

摘要

Drexel University is a private, non-secular university located in Philadelphia, PA which is comprised of13 schools and colleges. The university educates more than 25,000 students, awarding Bachelors,Masters and Doctoral degrees from both online and traditional classroom programs. The faculty ofeach school and college exercise control of the curriculum, which has led to doubling of enrollmentover the last two decades at the University. With growth comes the responsibility of ensuring that theoverall educational experience of the students is of high quality. Through the Office of the Provost, aculture of assessment has been created to ensure that the collection of reliable data, which informsbetter planning of programs and measurable improvement in the Drexel student experience.This case study highlights the efforts of three distinct schools and colleges within Drexel to develop asustainable and scalable comprehensive process to establish evidence based assessment practices.The process establishes rigorous and measurable cycles of learning through alignment of institutional,program and course level objectives to student learning outcomes. In addition, the paper illustrates theapplication of direct and indirect assessment towards developing interventions leading to qualitystudent learning outcomes.The three schools have been drawn together by their common work applying Quality Matters (QM)course design standards. With several QM standards tied to the alignment of course level objectives,module level objectives and learning activities to assessments, the natural progression is to map toprogram and university level outcomes. This process creates a complex matrix of learning that can beused to examine student learning outcomes, identify gaps and potential interventions via a micro(assignment)or macro level (university as well as a variety of points in the program which can be usedto provide data informed decisions.)