Program Assessment

Learning outcomes assessment is based on a process in which faculty and staff identify the most appropriate objectives for specific academic programs or discipline, e.g., associate degrees and certificates. It employs a wide variety of measurements to determine whether the divisions and the College are achieving the learning goals in these areas.

The purpose of assessment is to produce feedback to the division, college, or constituents on the quality of its curriculum, learning process, and/or services, thereby allowing each academic area to improve its programs and enhance student learning. It is not an evaluation of individual students or of individual faculty or staff. When developing and implementing outcomes assessment strategies, academic units should have at least one of three purposes in mind: to improve, to inform, and/or to provide evidence of student learning. The results from a program assessment process should provide information that can be used to determine whether or not intended outcomes are being achieved and how the programs can be improved.

Program assessment at NPCC is completed by each academic area as a yearly review process. Each discipline is required to develop an assessment plan in order to maximize faculty involvement and reflect the unique aspects of each discipline and the diversity of educational goals and mission determined by the academic unit. In addition to yearly review for the College, programs complete reviews for the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.

Click NPCCProgRvwSchdrvsd0910 for the ADHE program review schedule for NPCC programs.

Click DHEProgReviewPolicyRevised2008 for the ADHE Program Review Policy.

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