FACULTY ORIENTATION GUIDE

AUHS Systematic Evaluation and Assessment Plan (AUHS-SEAP)

The main objective of the American University of Health Sciences Systematic and Assessment Plan (SEAP) is to foster a culture of continuous sustainable quality improvement and outcomes to ensure the effectiveness in fulfilling its mission, goals, and outcomes for all programs.  The AUHS-SEAPs embodies the following operational processes:

  1. Support the AUHS institutional and programmatic missions of providing excellent academic preparation that yields to highly qualified graduates’ outcomes.
  2. Provide the schools’ leadership assessment tools for measuring performance and outcomes towards the development of a systematic and continuous assessment of the teaching and learning processes.
  3. Coordinate and facilitate an on-going assessment of outcomes in a student learner-centered environment.
  4. Facilitate the planning, data collection, data analysis and documentation of evidence of student achievement and program effectiveness shaping the AUHS SEAPs in collaboration with key instructional programs’ faculty and staff, administrative offices, and educational support units.

The Institutional Effectiveness Framework is based on who are involved and their relative capacity to undertake related responsibilities, what is to be accomplished, when will reviews take place, why analysis and reviews will be conducted, and how information will be used to make decisions that impact the success of the students.  The SEAP data is updated on a quarterly basis and provides an annual comprehensive report which speaks to the mission, goals, and program effectiveness outcomes.

The following are main compositions of the AUHS SEAP which you are expected to review and understand in your orientation period with the Director of Institutional Research and Assessment. 

1. Programmatic Mission in alignment with the AUHS Institutional Mission
2.University Strategic Plan
2.1 Alignment of School’s Strategic Plan to University Strategic Plan
3. Programs Education Effectiveness Framework: Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Key Indicators
3.1  Alignment and Assessment of Curricular Learning Outcomes
3.1.1 Institutional Learning Outcomes
3.1.2 Programmatic Learning Outcomes
3.1.3 Course Learning Outcomes
3.2 Alignment and Assessment of Co-Curricular Learning Outcomes
3.3 Key Indicators
3.4 Program Review and Schedule
3.5 Annual Report per Accrediting and Approval Agencies
4. School’s Systematic Evaluation Plan (SEP)
5. Institutional Effectiveness Framework
3.1 Quality Assurance
3.2 Continuous Improvements
3.3 Roles and Responsibilities (Committees)
3.4 University-Wide Committees
3.4.1 President’s Council
3.4.2 Strategic Planning Council (SPC)
3.4.3 Program Assessment Committees
3.4.4 University Advisory Board
3.4.5 Systematic Evaluation and Assessment Council (SEAC)
3.4.6 Faculty Senate
3.5 Five (5) Program Committees in each school
3.5.1 Curriculum Committee
3.5.2 Assessment and Evaluation Committee
3.5.3 Faculty Affairs and Resource Committee
3.5.4 Admission, Progression, and Student Affairs Committee
3.5.5 School Program Advisory Board Committee (subcommittee of AUHS University Advisory Board)
3.5.6 Other Schools might require additional Committees based on its Accreditation.
3.6 Analysis of Institutional Effectiveness
6. Administrative Effectiveness Assessment Plan
7. Assessment Reporting
7.1   Academic Program Assessment Reporting
7.2 Co-Curricular Effectiveness Reporting
7.3 Administrative Effectiveness
7.4 Annual Institutional Assessment Report
8. AUHS Management Assessment Tools
8.1 VIA
8.2 AMS
8.3 Evaluation Kit
9. Annual Assessment of the AUHS Systematic Evaluation and Assessment Program
10. Annual Report to AUHS Board of Trustees

The assessment and housing of student work are stored on the Watermark System that consist of VIA, Evaluation Kit, and AMS.   All faculty should familiar themselves with these tools as the courses taught may be assigned to be assessed according to the Assessment Wheel.  Various assessment mechanisms and tools make-up the AUHS-SEAP.  Each school has its own unique Systematic Evaluation Plan (SEP) according to the required programmatic accreditation guidelines, is in alignment with AUHS SEAP and accreditation/approval standards.

The assessment and housing of student work are stored on the Watermark System that consist of VIA, Evaluation Kit, and AMS.   All faculty should familiar themselves with these tools as the courses taught may be assigned to be assessed according to the Assessment Wheel.  Various assessment mechanisms and tools make-up the AUHS-SEAP.  Each school has its own unique Systematic Evaluation Plan (SEP) according to the required programmatic accreditation guidelines, is in alignment with AUHS SEAP and accreditation/approval standards.

The tools currently used for the program assessment is the following:

1.Evaluation Kit (EK)

• Course Evaluation Survey
• Co-Curricular Survey
• Others

2.VIA

• Program Assessment
• Clinical Assessment
• Course Assessment
• Storage of all Assessment Assignments

To provide you with an overview of AUHS SEAP, the following Figures below are samples of components of the AUHS SEAP (AUHS Quality Assurance Model, Continuous Quality Improvement, BSN Wheel with Signature Assignments and Assessment Wheel Model: BSN Curriculum Mapping)