Office of Research & Assessment

Excerpt: Lewis and Clark NCATE Preconditions Report

Assessment is a tool for reflection and improvement. Assessing our constituents helps us ask important questions about teaching and learning, discover whether what we are doing is effective, experiment with new approaches, and evaluate whether what we and our students are doing is actually resulting in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions we believe are critical.

Mission:

The mission of the Office of Research & Assessment is to validate and ensure candidate, program, faculty, and institutional success within the Graduate School of Education & Counseling through the systematic provision of data-based documentation of the school’s strengths and challenges.

Services:

• Provide the data-based documentation needed for institutional reports
• Provide data-based documentation for accreditation of programs
• Develop procedures to increase the use of technology
• Implement, systemize, and refine assessment systems
• Analyze faculty evaluation data for professional development needs
• Determine if assessments are or can be an accurate predictor of candidate success
• Provide in-depth reports from the data, including longitudinal reports of changes in effectiveness

Only through the regular assessment of our students and graduates, their supervisors, and other stakeholders in the community, can the Graduate School of Education and Counseling successfully evaluate the effectiveness of our programs.

Lewis & Clark College GSEC
Office of Research & Assessment
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97210

Office email: assess@lclark.edu
Office phone: 768-6124
Mail Stop Code: MSC 93