Assistance to Utah, the Intermountain Region, and the nation by providing personnel, knowledge, and innovative models to improve services to individuals who have disabilities or who are at-risk. Students' knowledge and skills are evaluated with assignments, exams, products. In some cases, these evaluations have been the subject of experimental, published research. In addition to systematic observation systems, an extensive portfolio system is used. Utah State University does an annual survey of employment placement of it's graduates.
Every course is evaluated by students every semester using a standard university-wide instrument.
Students evaluate every practicum every quarter. These evaluations include the quality and quantity of supervision provided by cooperating teachers and university supervisors. Love Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado, pp. They reflect on the importance and quality of each experience and, for practica, the quality, quantity and usefulness of the feedback they received. Periodically, usually every third year, the department does a survey of it's graduates in which they retrospectively evaluate each area of coursework and all of the components of the field-based training they received.