CAS | Assessment & Accreditation Committee

Duties of the College of Arts & Sciences Assessment & Accreditation Committee include:

  • Assists departments, programs, and Core faculty in analyzing student learning to improve and to validate that learning.
  • Recommends learning-assessment tools and policies.
  • Collects and interprets data produced by A&S assessments and communicates assessment information to the faculty and others; works with the Institutional Research office on data collection, interpretation, and dissemination.
  •  Contributes to the compilation of A&S accreditation reports.

Core Assessment Schedule 2024-2025
All scoring and uploading of student work samples and rubrics are due at the same time as final grades each semester.

  • Fall 2024
    • Group C 
      • Analysis & Interpretation of Texts 
      • Languages 
      • Scientific Perspectives of the Natural World
      • Social Systems & Human Behavior
      • Civic Engagement
      • FYS
  • Spring 2025
    • Group A
      • Artistic Practice & Creative Process
      • Mathematics
      • Quantitative Reasoning
      • International & Diverse Perspectives
         
  • Capstones
    • All Capstone presentations need to be submitted on the proper form found on the Senior Capstone web page. Towards the end of the Spring semester, you will be sent an email with a link for each of your capstone students.  This link will take you to a score sheet to indicate students' Summative Learning across the academic career of Pacific. 

CAS Core Assessment Schedule
2024-2032

CAS Core Assessment Schedule 2018-2028

Core Assessment Records & Resources

CAS Core Assessment Schedule, 2024-2032

Program Assessment Resources

Program Curriculum Maps Procedures, Assessment & Accreditation Workshop, Fall 2018

Core Assessment Results & Resources

Core Assessment Results

CAS Core Assessment Schedule (updated 2/2021)

Core Areas Workshop Slides and Recordings

Assessment & Accreditation Resources

Curriculum Map Template 2024

Program Assessment Folders Box Links

Capstone Assessment Training - Fall 2017

Peter Doolittle Presentation on Assessment of Course Learning Outcomes- March 2018

AAC&U On Solid Ground:  2 year report on assessment with VALUE rubrics - 2018

Templates for Internal and External Departmental Reviews

Internal Review Templates
External Review Templates (revised 02/2021)