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4.3: Planning processes are informed by appropriately defined and analyzed quantitative and qualitative data, and include consideration of evidence of educational effectiveness, including student learning.
As summarized under Standards 1 and 2, the University of California operates under a system of shared governance placing responsibility for curriculum development squarely on the shoulders of the faculty. We have seen that individual faculty design individual courses, that departments develop academic programs, and that senate committees approve proposed courses and programs and conduct periodic reviews to ensure on-going quality. Moreover, to ensure overall mastery of each curriculum, we require students to demonstrate synthesis of materials and ability to apply knowledge to new situations in the form of capstone requirements for each program. To assess the quality of faculty instruction, we encourage students to fill out surveys assessing the various components of courses and the instructor’s success in conveying material to students. This model of curriculum development and assessment is traditional at research universities. But, as we confessed in Standard 1.2, many years have passed since we last have conducted an overall review of our intended outcomes for the Santa Cruz education. In Section 1.2 we offered to conduct a review of educational objectives in our WASC educational effectiveness phase. In this section, we are offering to conduct the concomitant development of measures of education effectiveness and summary reporting. Though not an entirely concerted effort, we currently collect, publish, distribute, and use a large compendium of information as the foundation for our policy and resource allocation decisions. For example, the Provost has stipulated that each division include measures of accountability in their long-range budget plans. Also, Planning and Budget provides a long-standing portfolio of data on instructional workload and course audits, which has been used historically to monitor departmental workload and to provide a quantitative foundation for faculty resource allocations. As part of the Executive budget process mentioned in Standard 4.2, UCSC is currently considering the development of a quantitative assessment of its academic departments called Departmental Profiles. When complete, Departmental Profiles will collect into a single report all available institutional data for each academic department.
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