Elements

Exhibits

2a. Assessment system

1. Document describing the unit’s assessment system in detail, including assessment of candidate performance and evaluations of unit operations

2. Samples of formative and summative key assessments used to ensure candidates are ready to progress through the program and enter the profession

3. Summaries of data from key assessments used at transition points (a) at entry to programs, (b) prior to the student teaching/internship, (c) at completion of the student teaching/internship, and (d) at program completion

4. Minutes of meetings on the development and refinement of the assessment system and the use of data

5. Procedures for ensuring that key assessments and unit operations are fair, accurate, consistent, and free of bias

2b. Data collection, analysis, and evaluation

6. Policies and procedures that ensure that data are regularly collected, compiled, aggregated, summarized, analyzed, and used to make improvements

7. Sample of candidate assessment data disaggregated by alternate route, off-campus, and distance learning programs

8. Unit or institutional policies for handling student complaints

9. File of student complaints and the unit’s response

10. Description of information technology used to manage performance data

2c. Use of data for program improvement

11. Schedule for when unit analyzes data to make changes

12. Examples of changes made to courses, programs, and the unit in response to data gathered from the assessment system