Assessment Dashboards

Last update: 6/6/24

Two types of dashboards: 

1. Exploratory: User directed dashboards where users search for or discover content. Used for tracking, accreditation, program review, strategic planning or annual reporting.
2. Explanatory: Researcher directed dashboards that communicate one idea or topic at a time. Used for storytelling, professional development or understanding. 

National Survey of Student Engagement

NSSE Comprehensive Dashboard: 2013-23

• NSSE Comprehensive Dashboard: 2013-23

Retention Analysis

• Can I do it? Do I belong? Should I do it? Analyzing Retention at ISU using the NSSE - PDF
  • Campus press article: Can I do it? Do I belong? Should I do it? Analyzing Retention at ISU using the NSSE 
  • Campus press article: Helping over-extended Illinois State University students who run out of time
  • Campus press article: Hybrid and In person Enrollment and Post-pandemic Impact on Student Success at Illinois State University

Sense of Belonging 

• How identity groups experience belonging at ISU - PDF
  • Campus Press article: A conversation in student affairs about engagement & student success: Leveraging involvement and collaboration to cultivate belonging
  • Campus Press article: Sense of belonging is key to student succes

• See longitudinal and comparative sense of belonging evidence at the NSSE Comprehensive Dashboard (belonging tab)
• One page belonging visualizations:
  • College | First-generation | Living Arrangements | Transfer Native | Co-curricular | Civic Engagement | Fraternity and Sorority | Working Off and On Campus 

ISU Benchmarking with Peer Groups 

• NSSE benchmark report - PDF
  • Campus Press article: Exploring engagement data landscapes

ISU NSSE Academic Profile Report 

These reports are packaged in one visual analytic for academic programs and can be filtered by college, department, and FY/Senior student. 

• Academic planning report: 2013-2023  - PDF

Top Seven 

• Top 7 things that are working really well - PDF

Earnings 

• A worthwhile investment: Median earnings for Illinois State University graduates one and five years after graduation 
  PDF - Wordpress article
  
  • See also: About 1 in 3 adults say a college degree is not worth it economically. Are they correct?
  • See also: Cs do get degrees. And are associated with higher earnings for ISU graduates. In other news, correlation is still not causation.

General Education

Indirect Learning in General Education

• ISU General Education Student Survey: 2019 and 2022
  
  • Campus Press article: Indirect Measures of Learning in General Education at ISU in One Chart

• ISU NSSE - Gen Ed Mapping

Direct Learning in General Education

• Artifact Analysis (2023 and prior) - Fine Arts PDF | Humanities PDF | Math & Quant. Reasoning PDF | Science PDF
• Embedded assessment through Canvas (2024 and after) - visualization administered by Enterprise Data Analytics

Academic Planning: PRAAP and Program Review

• PRAAP and Program Review Schedule & Planning - PDF Sample

*Process for the Review of Academic Assessment Plans

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