Benefit 1: Faculty become primary decision-makers

• Setting goals

• Identifying processes to assess goals

• Determining whether goals have been reached

• Recommending future directions

Because assessment lies largely in the hands of faculty they have the opportunity to become the primary decision makers about their educational programs.

This involves faculty:

• setting their own goals depending on what they see their program valuing,
• identifying processes they feel meaningfully assess those goals,
• make their own determinations about whether students are meeting their goals, and
• develop their own recommendations (often with the backing of strong evidence) for future improvements.