Assessment and Annual Reports
University Housing uses a comprehensive assessment model that includes the following types of assessment: tracking, needs assessment, satisfaction assessment, environment assessment, outcomes assessment, comparable institution assessment, national standards assessment, and cost-effectiveness assessment.
Assessment Goals
The assessment plan is designed to:
- Ensure high-quality programs and services through continual feedback and improvement;
- Provide data illustrating the educational value of University Housing’s programs and services to the student learning experience at SIUE; and
- Develop a base of information and data regarding University Housing’s program and services to be used as a component of meeting professional standards.
Assessment Strategy
University Housing uses the practical inquiry approach to assessment (v. formal research). Practical inquiry is conducted by practitioners in the field and results in improving/changing practice, is grounded in “sense-making,” helps shape formal research, is not meant to be generalized, is conducted in the work environment, and is context-driven (Yousey, 2007). Practical inquiry uses the following questions (Nesheim, Yousey & Timm, 2007):
- What topic are you interested in?
- What would you like to know about your topic (question)?
- How can you answer your questions (method, data collection)?
- What did your data tell you (analysis)?
- How does that inform practice (implications/report)?
- What is the next question (feedback loop)?
Learning Goals
Practical Competence: Students will acquire knowledge and skills that will enable them to be self-sufficient and capable of solving everyday problems.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to demonstrate positive self-management skills.
- Beginning: Students will be able to identify their skills and needs (Ex. time management, budgeting, study skills, self-advocacy, cleaning, cooking).
- Intermediate: Students will be able to employ resources to address needs.
- Advanced: Students will be able to apply their skills to new situations or environments.
Civility: Students will interact compassionately with the world around them while gaining an understanding of and appreciation for cultural and human differences.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to describe the impact of their choices on themselves and others.
- Beginning: Students will be able to identify their choices that impact others.
- Intermediate: Students will modify their behaviors based on their understanding of how their choices impact others.
- Advanced: Students will be able to recognize the connection between their impact on others and their impact on themselves.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to develop healthy relationships.
- Beginning: Students will be able to identify characteristics of healthy relationships.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to engage in civil behaviors.
- Advanced: Students will be able to advocate for the needs of each person involved in a relationship.
Social Responsibility: Students will articulate and demonstrate the duty to act for the benefit of society and the environment.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to employ strategies that demonstrate an understanding of the triple bottom line of sustainability(Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice).
- Beginning: Students will be able to define the triple bottom line of sustainability.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to explore sustainable practices.
- Advanced: Students will be able to employ strategies that align with the triple bottom line of sustainability.
Global Awareness: Students will articulate and celebrate the similarities and differences of individuals, groups, and societies.
- Students will be able to describe the intersections of their identities.
- Beginning: Students will be able to identify socially constructed identities.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to explain their own socially constructed identities.
- Advanced: Students will be able to recognize the personal impact of their various identity groups.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to appreciate how identities influence interactions within society.
- Beginning: Students will be able to define systems of oppression and privilege.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to describe how their identities impact their interactions with others.
- Advanced: Students will be able to advocate for others.
