Assessment

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Winona State University has a long and rich history of assessment and evaluation of student engagement and learning outcomes that pervades both the academic departments, comprised primarily of instructors, and the academic service partners, who provide support to students to aid them in successful completion of their academic endeavors. In Spring 1998, WSU’s Faculty Senate established an institution-wide Assessment Day to create opportunities for gathering feedback from our students, faculty and staff about the functioning of the University and time to evaluate student learning outcomes using the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP). Since then, the Assessment Day student survey has grown significantly from a core set of modules to evaluate student engagement, experiences and satisfaction with general education and major curriculum to include modules from a variety of campus areas designed to assess the quality of services provided to students.

As new tools continue to become available for the collection and analysis of survey data, including broad adoption of nationally benchmarked surveys such as the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), assessment activities at WSU will continue to evolve. Beginning in 2009, WSU became a member of the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) and has agreed to administer the NSSE to first-year and senior students every other year. Pending the completion of a review of the University Studies program, started in 2009-10 by the Faculty Senate’s Academic Affairs and Curriculum Committee (A2C2) and slated for completion during the 2010-11 academic year, WSU will identify which of the three student learning outcomes assessments approved for use in the VSA will be administered in 2011-12.