From Ashes to Embers: Stoking the Coals to Facilitate Change

When the assessment data runs cold, you must stoke the fires to reinvigorate the data collection processes and enact change. Through multiple data collection methods, program-level outcomes can be evaluated and adjusted to better represent and measure student learning. Exit surveys, ePortoflios, assessment exams, and alumni surveys can all provide useful data to facilitate change. This research shows how to incorporate data from all of those sources to redesign program-level outcomes for a media-based undergraduate program.