The Graduate College is working with all graduate programs to develop learning goals for all graduate programs and an assessment process that provides regular insight into students' learning in key areas of the program.

Well-stated learning outcomes:

• Provides faculty with clear direction for implementation in the classroom
• Makes expectations explicit to students (great pedagogy)
• Focuses data collection

Assessment Answers the Following Questions:

• What is my program accomplishing?
• How well is my program influencing student learning?
• How do we know that students are learning?
• How do we improve student learning?
• On what information can we base celebrating our students’ accomplishments?
• Have the improvements been effective?

Each Graduate Program must complete an Assessment Template by 5 PM CST on April 2, 2021.

Assessment Template: Link.  

Completed templates should be emailed to: steven-varga@uiowa.edu

University of Iowa Example Templates: Link.