Institutional Effectiveness at JSU  is responsible for  the planning, evaluation, and assessment processes at the university to ensure institutional quality.

Institutional Effectiveness is an integrated and systematic process that documents measuring performance aligned with the mission of the university. IE efforts support strategic planning and facilitate planning, evaluation and assessment of educational programs, administrative, academic and student support units within the institution.

Assessment Framework

JSU has a systematic and ongoing assessment reporting process that identifies expected outcomes, assess the extent to which they are achieved,  and uses of results for data-informed continuous improvement.

What is the difference between an assessment plan and assessment report?

Assessment Plans articulate

• desired program goals
• student learning outcomes
• assessment methods which the SLOs will be assessed,
• and set appropriate numeric criterion of success.

Assessment Reports present

• the assessment results
• describe the actions implemented for continuous improvement
• Artifacts are also collected to describe the data collection, analysis and review process.