标准4

Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Improvement

标准全文:

The institution demonstrates responsibility for the quality of its educational programs, 学习环境, 支持服务, and it evaluates their effectiveness for student learning through processes designed to promote continuous improvement.

标准4核心部件

4.A. The institution demonstrates responsibility for the quality of its educational programs.

1. The institution maintains a practice of regular program reviews.
2. The institution evaluates all the credit that it transcripts, including what it awards for experiential learning or other forms of prior learning, or relies on the evaluation of responsible third parties.
3. The institution has policies that assure the quality of the credit it accepts in transfer.
4. The institution maintains and exercises authority over the prerequisites for courses, 课程严谨性, expectations for student learning, 获取学习资源, and faculty qualifications for all its programs, including dual credit It assures that its dual credit courses or programs for high school students are equivalent in learning outcomes and levels of achievement to its higher education curriculum.
5. The institution maintains specialized accreditation for its programs as appropriate to its educational purposes.
6. The institution evaluates the success of its graduates. The institution assures that the degree or certificate programs it represents as preparation for advanced study or employment accomplish these purposes. 对于所有程序, the institution looks to indicators it deems appropriate to its mission, 比如就业率, admission rates to advanced degree programs, and participation rates in fellowships, 实习, 特别节目(如.g.(和平队和美国服务队).

4.B. The institution demonstrates a commitment to educational achievement and improvement through ongoing assessment of student learning.

1. The institution has clearly stated goals for student learning and effective processes for assessment of student learning and achievement of learning goals.
2. The institution assesses achievement of the learning outcomes that it claims for its curricular and co-curricular programs.
3. The institution uses the information gained from assessment to improve student learning.
4. The institution’s processes and methodologies to assess student learning reflect good practice, including the substantial participation of faculty and other instructional staff members.

4.C. The institution demonstrates a commitment to educational improvement through ongoing attention to retention, 持久性, and completion rates in its degree and certificate programs.

1. The institution has defined goals for student retention, 持久性, and completion that are ambitious but attainable and appropriate to its mission, 学生的数量, 以及提供教育服务.
2. The institution collects and analyzes information on student retention, 持久性, 完成它的项目.
3. The institution uses information on student retention, 持久性, and completion of programs to make improvements as warranted by the data.
4. The institution’s processes and methodologies for collecting and analyzing information on student retention, 持久性, and completion of programs reflect good practice. (Institutions are not required to use IPEDS definitions in their determination of 持久性 or completion rates. Institutions are encouraged to choose measures that are suitable to their 学生的数量, but institutions are accountable for the validity of their measures.)