Standards for Review and Approval of Assessment Projects
University Student Learning Assurance Committee
The following guidelines represent the standards for submitting requests for conducting assessment projects that require samples of a broad range of USF students, faculty or staff. These guidelines are intended for all faculty and staff; students wishing to request approval must do so at the behest of a faculty or staff member.
Approval process:
- Contact the Office of Student Learning Assurance and Senior Vice Provost Gerardo Marin via email of intent to conduct assessment project. Briefly describe the nature of the project.
- Request through the Office of Student Learning Assurance to be placed on the next University Student Learning Assurance Committee agenda.
- Two weeks prior to the Student Learning Assurance Committee meeting submit the materials listed below electronically or hard-copy to the Office of Student Learning Assurance for distribution to Committee members.
- Attend Student Learning Assurance Committee meeting in support of assessment project request.
Materials:
- Written statement of (please limit to 2 pages maximum):
- the purpose of the assessment project;
- the contribution of the assessment project in meeting the mission and strategic initiatives of the University;
- the units mission statement, the learning/effectiveness goals, and the learning/effectiveness outcomes that the assessment project addresses;
- the methodology to be used in conducting the assessment
- Target sample;
- Sample size;
- Expected response rate;
- Website URL where details of the survey can be found;
- a statement regarding possible review of the survey by the University Institutional Review Board.
- a statement addressing confidentiality and/or anonymity of survey participants.
- the assessment project timeframe from start to finish;
- a description of the report(s) generated and provided by the survey publisher. If survey is generated in-house then please provide a short description of the report you will generate;
- acknowledgement of the Executive Summary requirements to be submitted at the close of the assessment project (see attached);
- Copy of survey.
