Assessment Committee Governance
The College of Education and P-16 Integration (CEP) Assessment Committee is composed of faculty representing every department in the CEP. The committee is organized into faculty-led sub-committees.
The assessment committee focuses on ensuring continuous program improvement by
- facilitating and monitoring evidence-based decision making at the program and unit levels,
- reviewing unit assessments and making recommendations for the development and revision of unit assessments, and
- overseeing systematic data collection at the program and unit levels. The ultimate goal of the assessment committee is to ensure a culture of inquiry guides decision-making in the CEP.
The CEP Assessment Committee meets regularly and is governed by the following policies effective Fall 2015:
- The CEP Assessment Committee shall be composed of 12 members:
- a. Ten members shall be full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty representing each of the 5 departments of the CEP and the Brownsville and Edinburg campuses.
- i. Each department chair shall appoint two full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members (one from the Brownsville campus and one from the Edinburg campus) to serve on the CEP Assessment Committee.
- a. Ten members shall be full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty representing each of the 5 departments of the CEP and the Brownsville and Edinburg campuses.
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- b. The CEP data analyst and the College of Education Assessment Coordinator shall be ex-officio members of the assessment committee and attend all meetings.
- c. The Associate Dean for Assessment and Accreditation of the CEP and the Director of the Office of Educator Preparation and Accountability shall be members of the assessment committee.
- d. A faculty member with expertise in research, statistics, psychometrics, and assessment instrument development and validation shall serve as the assessment committee research consultant.
- Each of the 10 full-time faculty members of the assessment committee shall serve a minimum of one 2-year term.
- Faculty members may serve as many consecutive terms as agreed on by the individual faculty member and the respective department chair.
- Members of the assessment committee from the same department shall complete their terms on alternate years.
- The Associate Dean for Assessment and Accreditation and one faculty member of the assessment committee shall serve as co-chairs of the committee.
- a. The co-chair of the assessment committee shall be selected by the members of the committee following a process of nomination and voting.
- b. The co-chair of the assessment committee shall serve for the duration of his/her term unless otherwise decided by the individual faculty member.
- Serving in the CEP Assessment Committee shall constitute service at the college level