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9th Annual Assessment of Academic Advising Institute

February 15-17, 2012

at the Hilton DoubleTree Hotel in San Diego, CA


Thank you to those who attended the 2012 Assessment Institute in San Diego, CA!

We hope to see you next year in Savannah, Georgia!


Information about the 2012 Assessment Institute
What to Expect Why you should attend Your Experience Level
Institute Faculty The Assessment Cycle What our 2011 participants had to say
Assessment Glossary Frequently Asked Questions

What to expect:

Assessment of academic advising is essential for a successful and effective academic advising program on any campus. This working institute will be an intensive two and a half days focused on the components of a successful assessment program as well as specific strategies and tools for developing and implementing assessment programs on your campus.


Why you should attend:
  • Develop a vision for advising on your campus
  • Understand national resources that offer student feedback & information about advising
  • Learn how to identify resources & allies in the areas of institutional Research &Institutional Planning
  • Learn to connect your plan to the institutional strategic planning process
  • Learn how to communicate this information to campus colleagues to generate collaboration & understanding
  • Use benchmarking to document the success of your plan

M23CDRegister for the 2012 Assessment Institute and receive NACADA's CD: Guide to Assessment of Academic Advising. The CD will complement and enhance what you will learn at the Institute and provide you with a tool you can take back and use at your own institution.

The CD will be part of your 2012 Registration Packet and will be distributed at check-in.

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Your Experience Level:
In order to be responsive to the varying experiences of participants, the Assessment of Academic Advising Institute offers instructional levels:
Foundational Level This level will focus on developing or enhancing the mission statement, vision statement, and goals and objectives which will launch the participants into the development of student learning outcomes and process/delivery outcomes. These are the foundations of assessment.

Conceptual Level

This level will focus on the outcomes and the details of the assessment plan. It encompasses mapping the outcomes to identify when, where, and by whom the outcomes will be facilitated; how to measure the outcomes; and developing a structure for your assessment process such as timing, formats, sample size, etc. The outcomes are a key to conceptualizing an assessment plan that focuses on learning.


Operational Seminar

The focus of this level is on the methodology you employed in your assessment process and the data you have collected and acted upon. As an Institute participant in this level’s small group, you must have completed a full cycle of assessment of academic advising beyond a simple student satisfaction evaluation.  Participants in this level will prepare and present a report on their assessment process, from identifying stakeholders through developing student learning outcomes, identifying and using multiple measures, and data collection and resulting activities.  Additional group discussion will include interpretation and dissemination of data for revisions to the advising program, policy analysis, resource allocation, etc., and  focus on continuing the assessment process beyond one cycle to enhance teaching and learning within academic advising. 

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Institute Faculty
Faculty Member Institution
Rich Robbins Bucknell University
Tomarra Adams University of Louisville
Sharon Aiken-Wisniewski University of Utah
Karen Boston University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Lauren Campbell University of Texas-Austin
Kathy Zarges Kent State University
Charlie Nutt NACADA - Executive Office
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The Assessment Cycle

One key component of the NACADA Assessment Institute is The Assessment Cycle (Maki, Assessing for Learning). Various aspects of the cycle are introduced and discussed through plenary and faculty cohort sessions. During these sessions, strategies are presented that offer tools for developing and implementing your advising assessment plan.

Assessment Cycle

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What our 2011 participants had to say:

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