Assessment
Assessment Mission
The mission of the assessment group within the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning is to establish and support a culture of evidence-based decision making at Appalachian State University.
Goals and Outcomes
- Academic, administrative, and service units will have ongoing assessment processes in place that document student learning and/or the impact of their services.
- Each unit will have learning and/or program goals related to the unit’s and the University’s missions.
- Each unit will have measurable outcomes for each of the unit’s goals.
- Each unit will annually document the changes made within the unit as a result of assessment efforts.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will demonstrate familiarity with services provided by the assessment group in IRAP.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will contact IRAP for workshops and individual consultations about assessment.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will be able to list at least three different sources of institutional data that they might use to aid their unit’s assessment efforts.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will be able to describe services available through IRAP to support their assessment efforts.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will report satisfaction with the services provided by the assessment group in IRAP.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will report satisfaction with information available through the assessment website.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will report satisfaction with information received through workshops or individual consultations about assessment.
- Faculty and staff charged with assessment will report satisfaction with support available through IRAP to aid in their assessment efforts.

