assignment 3

HEA 540 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

Institutional Overview Overview: In this first milestone toward the final project, you will provide an institutional overview that establishes the context for your academic program evaluation. Prompt: Academic programs exist within the context of a larger educational institution. In order to appropriately plan for a program evaluation, you need to understand this larger context. This first milestone offers you the opportunity to explore the institution in the case study or your selected institution, an opportunity for continuous improvement, and the required quantitative and qualitative data from both internal and external sources. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

 Describe the institution and the specific program or initiative being addressed. What are the program’s history and role or purpose? What are the expectations of the program as it currently exists?

 Determine an opportunity for continuous improvement within this program or initiative. Support your response with quantitative and qualitative data that you have collected from the program. For instance, what data confirms that the program is not performing as it should? What institutional goals informed your decision?

 Incorporate relevant data from outside the academic institution to support your determination. For example, what are the institutional/national standards, milestones, benchmarks, and/or trends that the program is not performing well against?

 Discuss what additional quantitative or qualitative data would be relevant to your evaluation and which assessment tools would you use to collect this additional data.

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be submitted as a 5- to 8-page (including title and reference pages) Microsoft Word document with headings, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements

Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Institution Describes the institution and specific program or initiative being addressed, including the program history, role or purpose, and current expectations

Describes the institution and specific program

or initiative being addressed, including the program history, role or purpose, and current expectations, but description is cursory or contains irrelevant detail

Does not describe the institution or specific

program or initiative being addressed 20

Opportunity Determines an opportunity for continuous

improvement within the program or initiative with support from quantitative and qualitative

data from the program

Determines an opportunity for continuous improvement within the program or initiative, but does not support response with

quantitative or qualitative data from the program

Does not determine an opportunity for continuous improvement within the program or initiative

30

Data From Outside the

Academic

Institution

Incorporates relevant data from outside the academic institution to support determination

Incorporates data from outside the academic institution to support determination, but not all data incorporated is relevant

Does not incorporate any data from outside the academic institution to support determination

20

Additional Data Discusses what additional quantitative and qualitative data would be relevant to the evaluation and what assessment tools to use

to collect this additional data

Discusses what additional quantitative and qualitative data would be relevant to the evaluation and what assessment tools to use

to collect this additional data, but discussion is cursory or i l logical

Does not discuss what additional quantitative and qualitative data would be relevant to the evaluation or what assessment tools to use to

collect this additional data

20

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact

readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of

ideas

10

Total 100%