CCP Values College Mission

The assessment plan of CCP values college mission by stating its core culture in the first part. Suskie (2009) suggests that assessment plan should focus on campus resources and consider the fundamental mission of the institution. In the first couple of pages, this plan successfully provides guidelines and principles of assessing students based upon the college’s goals and mission. It also empowers everyone including faculty, staff, and students. For example, one of the principles states that all departments, including administrative department and academic programs, have made a commitment in effective assessment (Office of Institutional Research, 2015). Indeed, the Office of Institutional Research (2005) refers to college mission in its second

For instance, they employs the persistence models developed by Tinto, Bean, and Pascarella, and develops the model into an assessment model that fits their learning goal (Office of Institutional Research, 2015). Therefore, the Office of Institutional Research successfully reinforces the vision of assessment by providing a diagram of planning and assessment (Appendix II). According to Walvood (2010), the assessment plan should be a “natural act that helps the campus achieve its most important goals” (pp. 27). In this case, it is to assess educational outcomes (Office of Institutional Research,

However, it does have some limitations. First of all, this plan failed to identify its audiences. According to Walvood (2010), accreditors are not the only audience for assessment. This plan focuses a lot on collecting data, but limits in providing information for faculty and students. The twenty-one-page plan seems long for students. Suskie (2009) suggests that assessment reports should keep short and simple. For faculty, the last part of this plan includes a summary of academic assessment for each program and course. This could be more informative, since effective assessment plan provides faculty and staff with guidance on their assessment (Suskie, 2009). Additionally, the assessment goal is not clear enough. Walvood (2010) indicates that the learning goals should be “live” (p. 31). This plan fails to address specific student learning goals. According to Walvood (2010), a suggestion for the Office of Institutional Research is to clarify the audiences and the purposes for