Who Does What, When Since undergraduate outcomes assessment began at CU-Boulder, the number of units taking the process seriously has grown year by year. Responsibility for outcomes assessment in these units varies but usually lies with those directly involved in undergraduate curriculum planning, such as the unit's entire faculty, or all faculty teaching central undergraduate courses, members of an undergraduate curriculum committee, or the committee's chair, a specially-appointed assessment subcommittee of the whole or of the curriculum committee, or the unit's undergraduate coordinator or its chair.
Units gather their assessment data during the academic year.
The summaries, available as part of this Web site, describe the assessment methods used, their results, and the unit's interpretation of them, with special emphasis on the results of curricular or program changes that had been based on previous years' outcomes. They also include the unit's future plans, with any curricular or program changes proposed on the basis of the assessment results, and any changes the unit plans in its outcomes assessment methods. As part of its self study, a unit describes its outcomes assessment methods, summarizes results since its last self study, and discusses how outcomes assessment results have been used in program planning. Internal and external PRP review committees base their recommendations for the unit's future plans partly on the material in the self study, including the description of outcomes assessment process. PBA offers assistance to units engaged in outcomes assessment, PRP self studies, and other internal analyses, including analyses of the university's student-records database, assistance with surveys, and consulting on research design and interpretation.