Benefit 4: Reliable Evidence

• Rely less on FTE and student evaluations

• Make reliable decisions about innovations or experimental projects

• Evidence used to easily and effectively share successes

Assessment evidence can provide a reliable portrayal of what is occurring with student learning because it is tailored to reflect the distinct goals of our individual programs.

This is beneficial because:

• it can allow use to rely less on uniform indicators such as FTE and course evaluations as the sole indicators of success,
• it can assist in determining and addressing the advantages and disadvantages of experimental projects and new innovations as we decide the course of future efforts, and
• it can provide use evidence that is readily and easily available to programs to share their successes with those both within and outside the program.