RESEARCH PAPER: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND MANAGEMENT OF ASSESSMENT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

RESEARCH PAPER: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND MANAGEMENT OF

ASSESSMENT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
Regional Accreditation Agencies encourage continuous improvement by requiring higher
education institutions to conduct internal Institutional Effectiveness (IE) processes. Educational
leaders need to understand both the accreditation requirements governing these IE processes and
how to manage the processes successfully. All such processes need to be informed by the
institution’s mission, vision, and core values. Leaders also need to understand the nature and
purpose of local and national direct and indirect methods of assessment that are utilized
institution-wide to gather improvement and compliance data. They need to ensure that such data
is analyzed so the results can be reported to stakeholders, one of the most important being the
institution’s regional accreditor.
INSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment, compose a paper with the following:
1. Analyze how institutional effectiveness and accreditation differ and the requirements of
one regional accreditation agency to carry out Institutional Effectiveness processes.
2. Defend the importance of institutional mission, vision, and core values.
3. Compare how local and national direct and indirect assessment results should be
gathered, analyzed, visualized, reported to stakeholders, stored, and published.
Ensure details and examples are provided throughout your paper.
Your paper must be 5 pages (not including the required title, abstract, and references pages).
Support the content of your paper with at least six different sources from scholarly peer-reviewed
sources and/or the Bible. At least four sources must have been published within the past five
years, and at least one source must be from the Bible. A source can be cited more than once.