Department assessment coordinators receive 12 units of release time spread over three quarters. The cost of the release time is being supported partially with School resources and partially with University resources set aside to support faculty in doing assessment work. All student outcomes are measured. The School assessment committee has attempted to quantify outcomes using a five point scale. The technology department is not constrained by ABET, but many of the outcomes of their programs have the same generic outcomes listed by ABET in their a-k criteria.
All schools probably wish to have the same perfect outcomes.
However this will probably never happen. During this first attempt at assessment, ABET is more concerned with process that results. However in future assessment cycles, improvements in outcome results would be expected as a result of programs implementing changes identified as necessary by a previous assessment cycle. The emphasis of student outcomes assessment is on what the student knows, is able to do and has attitudes about, at graduation and two to three years into his or her profession. To identify this, a new set of performance indicators is needed to measure outcomes that the cumulative GPA of a student doesn't capture.