Our Mission
The OAEA supports data-driven decision making for instructional excellence and quality improvement, and it enables stakeholders to ascertain the degree to which CNU’s Mission and Strategic Plan are being accomplished. While the OAEA helps assess a broad spectrum of CNU’s services and outcomes, the primary assessment focus is student learning outcomes - the learning that occurs as a result of the CNU experience. OAEA consults and collaborates with faculty and administrators to enhance all stages of the assessment process from writing objectives to using results.
Our Values
As an academic and administrative support unit, OAEA is committed to the excellence of the university and assessment and evaluation that is:
- Congruent: Assessment fits with and is adaptable to CNU’s needs including consistency with mission and strategic plan and facilitates accountability to accrediting/governing bodies.
- Meaningful: Valid information is collected on CNU’s objectives in a routine manner by stressing rigorous, high-quality assessment practices.
- Useful: Faculty and administrators appropriately consider assessment results when making decisions on curriculum and services.
- Efficient: Components of assessment are organized to obtain the most useful information at a reasonable cost.
Our Vision
The OAEA will:
- Improve departmental assessment by consulting with faculty and administrators.
- Provide resources to promote better assessment practice across campus.
- Manage a comprehensive assessment program for the University Liberal Learning Curriculum.
- Outline the benefits of a robust assessment program to students, faculty, staff and administrators.
- Showcase CNU’s effective assessment practices across the campus, regionally, and nationally.
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