Outcomes Assessment
Institutions face more pressure to document student learning and demonstrate improvement than ever before. Accrediting agencies are requiring more evidence of continuous improvement against standards. Administrators want concrete evidence on which to base their budget decisions. An ideal solution would give you the tools you need to measure learning, analyze and report on real data and manage improvement.
Blackboard® outcomes and assessment technology will help you assess your teaching and learning practices in the same system that your faculty and students use every day. While other solutions focus on either tools or tracking and management of results, we support the entire cycle of assessment. Our technology also adapts to your organizational structure and processes to deliver a personalized assessment experience to each user.
Authentic Measurement Instruments
Because it’s often difficult to gather authentic data on learning outcomes, you may be relying on suspect or incomplete data for analysis. In addition to traditional tools such as surveys and course evaluations, Blackboard provides a variety of instruments to collect authentic data on achievement of learning outcomes including portfolios, artifacts and rubrics. All learning outcomes then can be aligned with goals, standards and curricula.
Institutional Planning & Alignment
Without unified goals and methodologies, it’s difficult to aggregate and analyze data resulting from separate assessment strategies. Only Blackboard software enables every unit of an institution to map its goals and objectives to broader institutional goals and standards. We’ll help you report on activity and alignment for truly institution-wide visibility.
Assessment Reporting & Tracking
Assessment data, when it exists, is often in many places and formats. It’s difficult to get true visibility into assessment initiatives without extraordinary effort and cost. We’ll help you realize the true value of visibility by generating, capturing and analyzing your institutional assessment data in a single system complete with customized dashboard views.
Comprehensive Assessment Management
Are you wasting valuable institutional resources and preventing wide-scale adoption with manual, time-consuming or inefficient accountability initiatives? We’ll support all of your evidence-based improvement initiatives with assessment instruments, workflow management, collaboration and enterprise reporting capabilities included in the same environment.