Our mission is to educate you to become professional social workers and we need to develop ways to objectively measure whether we have done this. But the answer is also more complex. Assessment is a means through which we can find our strengths and weaknesses. It provides us with information to make change in our curriculum and program planning. It helps us rethink our courses and assignments to make them more relevant to you.
Objective measures challenge our assumptions and observations.
The process stops us from being complacent. The above only scratches the surface of the benefits of assessment. But at this point, it is more important to tell you what we will be measuring because you are the integral part of assessment. All the course objectives in the social work program help us to meet one or more of the following learning objectives. Graduates of the SUNY Fredonia Social Work Program will 1. apply critical thinking skills within the context of professional social work practice.