MHE 692 Program Evaluation, Assessment, and Decision Making in Higher Education
Program evaluation and assessment are critical to the success of data-driven planning and decision-making. This course will focus on the elements of the entire process of program evaluation and assessment, from envisioning and defining program and student learning outcomes, to benchmarking, to assessing how well desired outcomes have been achieved, to presenting evidence-based recommendations. Students will engage in hands-on, ‘real time’ projects using institutional data sources as well as how to prepare findings for effective distribution and dissemination. Throughout the process, students will learn project management skills as well as the ethics, barriers, and general best practices of program evaluation and implementation.