Currently, our collaborative partners are our external consultants, as listed in the previous table. As part of our audit process, these partners review our syllabi, curriculum, and assessments, using first-year college course expectations for quality as the benchmark. They review samples of our students’ work, too, and feedback to us how the work compares to what they see in their institutions so that we can adjust accordingly.
In addition to benchmarking the quality of each AT course (syllabi, curriculum, and assessments) using first-year college course expectations, our collaborative partners also work with our AT Vetting Committee to audit each course every year through the following three-level process:
Each course reviews and revises (as necessary) their course syllabus, submitting it to the AT Vetting Committee and the respective strategic partner for review, feedback, and endorsement.
All students enrolled in AT courses complete an AT survey at the end of each semester in order for the AT Vetting Committee to assess if the overall AT Program is achieving the AT Criteria.
A sample of culminating assessments (research papers, projects, etc.) from each course are reviewed at the end of the year by the respective collaborative partner to ensure that our students are producing evidence of college level learning.
It is because we are so committed to ensuring quality that we’ve adopted this rigorous audit process for our AT courses. Our research showed us that many schools do not benchmark their AT courses in this way.