Assessment is NOT an evaluation of individual faculty members, staff, or students. The Assessment Council explicitly states that assessment is focused on student learning and program improvement, and assessment data are not intended for evaluating performance of an individual faculty member.

Student Evaluations of Instruction are NOT considered to be good tools for program outcomes assessment because they focus on the performance of individual faculty performance.

Assessment is NOT simply collecting and reporting data. Instead, it is a tool for facilitating discussion and providing a variety of types of feedback about the curriculum or about the educational impact of student programs.

Assessment is not going away!