Closing the loop: assessment and accreditation

Abstract

Program assessment has become an important part of the accreditation process for virtually every educational institution. As in all process improvement activities organizations need to establish goals and objectives prior to determining outcome measures used to monitor the organization's progress toward meeting these goals. This paper describes the evolving assessment plan used by the Computer and Information Science department to assess student performance in its three undergraduate degree programs in computer science, information systems, and software engineering.