The Department of Technology’s Program Assessment Plan (undergraduate and graduate programs) meets the requirements of the University of North Dakota, the College of Business and Public Administration, and the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) accrediting agency.  It includes the following essential elements:

1. A statement of the mission of the department/program (ATMAE Standard 6.16 [1]).

2. A statement of the desired student learning goals of the academic program.

3. A statement of program outcomes/student competencies, which further characterize each of the goals and state obtainable and documentable outcomes contributing specifically to the attainment of each goal (ATMAE Standard 6.16 [2]).

4. Evidence that the program incorporates these outcomes/student competencies, i.e. that they are linked with the courses and experiences in which outcomes are to be attained (ATMAE Standard 6.16 [3]).

5. Descriptions of the assessment measures used to evaluate student mastery of the student competencies stated, i.e. whether goals for student learning have been met (ATMAE Standard 6.16 [4]).

6. A statement of the timeline along which assessment data will be collected, analyzed, interpreted and documented, and identification of who will be responsible for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and documenting the results of assessment (ATMAE Standard 6.16 [5]).

7. A description of the process that will be implemented to document and communicate that the results of assessment have been used to improve the program (ATMAE Standard 6.16 [6]).

The complete 2009-2010 Undergraduate Assessment Plan is available as a pdf.