Institutional Research & Assessment
Step 4: Areas of Evaluation
- Assess demographics (includes external reports) and student development
- Educational development
- Class characteristics
- Student characteristics
- Enrollment trends
- Salaries, Tenure and Benefits
- Institutional statistics
- Program demand
- Graduation rates
- Finances
- Financial Aid
- Assess learning outcomes at SUU
- General education
- Cognitive achievement in the major
- Unit-based measures of achievement
- Assess satisfaction outcomes
- Personal goal attainment
- College performance
- Exit/withdrawal causes
- Faculty & staff recruitment & retention
- Assess academic processes
- Advising
- Grading
- Scheduling and use of instructional space
- Engagement of students in academic practices
- Freshman retention
- Scholarly output
- Transfer student retention and graduation
- Faculty workload
- Library comparisons
- Instructional staff database reconciliation
- Academic program reviews
- Teaching evaluations
- Assess post-graduation outcomes
- Graduate attitudes
- Alumni satisfaction
- Career placement
- ATE career placement
- Employer attitudes
- Assess planning, costs and benefits
- Strategic planning
- Campus master planning
- Performance indicators
- Public perceptions
- Technology needs
- Cost/benefit comparisons
- Accreditation self-studies
- Athletics certification self-studies
- Capital planning and budgeting
- Comparable Compensation Analyses
- Cost Studies
- Endowment pool and investments
- Financial reports
- Financial studies
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