At the end of the spring semester, I sent a survey to Student Affairs Staff at my institution to get information about their professional development needs in the area of assessment. In addition to asking directly about those needs, the survey also posed some questions that were indirect indicators…
Recent posts on the SAAL blog have examined the importance of intentionality in the assessment cycle. The posts hit on one of the most significant hindrances to good assessment practice in student affairs work, specifically, that assessment initiatives require intentionality to be effective. Unfortu…
The first assessment project that I ever worked on took me down a rabbit hole. It was a major survey project that asked our first year students about their experiences during their first semester on campus. Not only did we wind up with a good response rate, but we also had a number of dedicated pa…