Departmental Assessment Award

The Departmental Assessment Award is bestowed on an academic department that has exhibited a history of excellence in assessing student learning, classroom teaching, and program effectiveness.

The award comes with a $1,500 prize.

Who is eligible:
Academic departments

Who may nominate:
Nomination letters should be initiated by department chairs, and have supporting documentation from deans. Unsuccessful nominations from prior years may be activated and resubmitted.

The best applications will discuss and provide specific examples of how the department assesses student learning (e.g., embedded testing, student papers or projects, capstone courses, portfolios, evidence of student performance on national tests), classroom teaching (e.g., peer or chair review of classroom performance, student evaluation of classroom performance), and program effectiveness (e.g., student and alumni surveys).

Moreover, applicants should discuss how the results gleaned from the above assessments contribute to continuous improvement within the department.

For more information on assessment, see http://www.umt.edu/provost/policy/assess/

Send nominations and documentation to: 
Dr. Arlene Walker-Andrews, Associate Provost
Office of the Provost
University Hall 126