Assessment System
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The unit has developed an assessment system with its professional community that reflects the conceptual framework(s) and professional and state standards. The unit’s system includes a comprehensive and integrated set of evaluation measures that are used to monitor candidate performance and manage and improve operations and programs. Decisions about candidate performance are based on multiple assessments made at admission into programs, at appropriate transition points and at program completion. Assessments used to determine admission, continuation in, and completion of programs are predictors of candidate success. The unit takes effective steps to eliminate sources of bias in performance assessments and works to establish the fairness, accuracy, and consistency of its assessment procedures.

The unit, with the involvement of its professional community, is implementing as assessment system that reflects the conceptual framework(s) and incorporates candidate proficiencies outlined in professional and state standards. The unit continuously examines the validity and utility of the data produced through assessments and makes modifications to keep abreast of changes in assessment technology and in professional standards. Decisions about candidate performance are based on multiple assessments made at multiple points before program completion. Data show the strong relationship of performance assessment to candidate success. The unit conducts thorough studies to establish fairness, accuracy and consistency of its performance assessment procedures. It also makes changes in its practices consistent with the results in these studies.

Data Collection, Analysis, and Evaluation
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The unit maintains an assessment system that provides regular and comprehensive information on applicant qualifications, candidate proficiencies, competence of graduates, unit operations, and program quality. Using multiple assessments from internal and external sources, the unit collects data from applicants, candidates, recent gradates, faculty, and other members of the professional community. These data are regularly and systematically compiled, summarized, and analyzed to improve candidate performance, program quality, and unit operations. The unit maintains its assessment system through the use of information technologies.

The unit is implementing its assessment system and providing regular and comprehensive data on program quality, unit operations, and candidate performance at each stage of a program, including first years of practice. Data from candidates, graduates, faculty, and other members of the professional community are based on multiple assessments from both internal and external sources. Data are regularly and systemically collected, complied, summarized, analyzed, and reported publicly for the purpose of improving candidate performance, program quality, and unit operations. The unit is developing and testing different information technologies to improve its assessment system.

Use of Data for Program Improvement
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The unit has fully developed evaluations and continuously searches for stronger relationships in the evaluation, revising both the underlying data systems and analytic techniques as necessary. The unit not only makes changes when evaluations indicate, but also systemically studies the effects any changes to assure that the intended program strengthening occurs and that there are no adverse consequences. Candidates and faculty review performance data on their performance regularly and develop plans for improvement.