PEARL participants are organized into 5 categories as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: PEARL Roles and Relationships
The figure was intentionally drawn horizontally instead of vertically to represent PEARL's 'grass-roots' approach instead of a 'top-down' approach.
The arrows at the top of the figure represent the relationship between each of the different roles. Moving from left to right on the diagram, the relationship requires communicating the vision for PEARL, coaching in the techniques of PEARL, leading the direction for PEARL, organizing meetings and events, and assisting in completing the work of PEARL.
Moving from right to left on the diagram the relationship requires communicating your work in PEARL, advising ways to improve PEARL, sharing your work in PEARL and assisting in completing the work of PEARL.
PEARL Steering Committee:Individuals from this group communicate with program leaders and peer reviewers, and provide the overall vision and leadership for PEARL. Primarily they use the system to track programs’ progress through the assessment process.
Peer Reviewers:The peer reviewers work closely with both the PEARL Steering Committee and the PEARL program leaders. The peer reviewers provide feedback and coaching to the program leaders on their PEARL plans, and also provide suggestions to the Steering Committee on ways to improve the PEARL process.
Program Leaders:Program leaders provide the program-level leadership needed to ensure the forward progress of the PEARL process within their program.
Program faculty or staff:Program faculty and staff have little direct interaction with the PEARL software but are still active by supporting the program leaders in identifying student learning outcomes, selecting assessment measures, gathering assessment evidence, and making program improvements.
Below are listed just a few of the individuals at UNL who have participated in PEARL:
