Interpreting, Utilizing, & Reporting Assessment Results

FYS Leadership InstituteColumbia, SC

April 2012

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Sharing & Utilizing the Results

WHY UTILIZE & SHARE

“You Can’t Fatten A Pig by Weighing It”

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Activity for Interpreting1. What conclusions can you draw from these

data? In other words, how did we do?

2. What other questions do the data raise? What other information might you need?

3. What are the implications for practice or what policy decisions would you make?

Interpreting Evidence– Don’t interpret in isolation• Form an assessment committee• Ad hoc groups to process results• Benefits:

– More holistic thinking– Create buy in– Tool for dialogue

– Use multiple lenses (i.e. benchmarking, longitudinal, value added)

What does this tell us?

What does this tell us?PGPA Quintile UNIV 101 (n) Non-101 (n) P-Value

5 (High) 92.3% (n=302) 95.8% (n=323) .04

4 90.7% (n=486) 86.2% (n=150) NS

3 87.5% (n=481) 83.7 % (n=149) NS

2 83.7% (n=516) 81.5% (n=116) NS

1 (Low) 81.6% (n=488) 72.7% (n=149) .02

All 86.3% (n=2394) 85.1% (n=943) .03

With whom should the data be shared?

Stakeholder Method

Strategies for Sharing Results• Newsletter • Email blasts• Website• Press release

– Other Public Notices • Presentations to stakeholder/colleagues• Embed in existing communications

– Syllabus prep workshop– Emails to advisors– Marketing materials

*Be careful about confidentiality agreements

Reports need to be….• Timely• Relevant to audience• Understandable• Digestible• Accurate• Thought provoking