Mission
In Summer 2003, Provost Neil Kerwin appointed a Learning Outcomes and Assessment Team made up of faculty and staff from across the AU community. The Project Team has the following mission:
- To focus on understanding and improving student learning. Assessment is the tool that can enable a department to determine whether it is meeting its goals in student learning, but it is not the 'end' - it is a means to an end.
- To support and facilitate assessment activities that can best improve student learning.
- To facilitate the development of learning objectives across campus and to facilitate knowledge about these objectives.
- To foster the collection and dissemination of assessment information.
- To support, foster and document the appropriate use of assessment information for program improvement and promotion.
The Project Team is chaired by Stacey Snelling from the School of Education, Teaching and Health. The vice chair is Melissa Becher of the University Library. We are also fortunate enough to have Marilyn Goldhammer from the School of Education, Teaching and Health, as a part-time faculty resource for Learning Outcomes and Assessment.
