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Public Assessment pages
2008 CAC Visit pages

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Version: Thu Mar 4 12:48:36 EST 2010

The CAC Visit: November 2-4, 2008

• Team Chair: Stu Zweben <zweben@cse.ohio-state.edu>
  - Ohio State University
  • Member: Jenq-Foung Yao <jf.yao@gcsu.edu>
    - Georgia College and State University.
  • Member: Mudasser Wyne <mwyne@nu.edu>
    - National University (San Diego).
• 2002 Visit Schedule
• 2008 Visit Schedule

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Assessment Schedule

• Department Calendar (including Assessment Actions)
• Accreditation Year Schedule
• Assessment timetable

ABET information

• ABET Web (forms)
• 08-09 Criteria & NEW Self Study template

Self Study Reports

• 2002 WPI CS CAC Self Study Report -- pdf
• 2008 WPI CS CAC Self Study Report -- pdf
  • Appendix D: Institutional Summary -- pdf

CAC Draft Statement (Dec 2008)

• Draft report from CAC (.pdf)

Responses to ABET CAC (2009)

• Response to ABET Accreditation Weakness 4 (Concepts of Programming Languages) (.doc)
• Revised Educational Objectives
• Revised Educational Outcomes
• Table describing coverage of Computer Architecture (.doc)
• Motion: Performance Criteria (.txt)
• Motion: Continuous Improvement (.txt)
  
  
• Response: CS Response to CAC Statement (Feb 2009) (.doc) -- (pdf)
  
  
• CAC reply: CAC reply to our Response (.txt)

CAC Final Report (Sept 2009)

• Final Report from CAC (.pdf)

Information

• WPI's Student Outcomes Assessment Portfolio
• CS Mission Statement
• CS List of Goals
• CS List of Objectives (at time of visit)
• CS List of Outcomes (at time of visit)
• CS Data Collection Mechanisms
• Mechanisms to Outcomes mapping
• Changes to Ugrad program 2003-2008 (.txt)
• CS Course Coordinators: i.e., which faculty member is responsible for which course.
  
  
• CS Department's Assessment Process (Old/Rough)
• General Feedback Process figure (.pdf file)
• Outcomes Process figure (.pdf file)
• MQP Assessment Process figure (.pdf file)
• Student Course Evaluation Process figure (.pdf file)
  
  
• Accreditation Benchmark Data (.xlsx file)

Statistics

• CS Courses taken 2007 graduating seniors
• Courses taken by class of 2007 (pdf) (NB: not just graduating snrs)
• Effort in courses reported on student course evals (pdf)
• Total effort in WPI courses and perception of dept from EBI exiting student survey (txt)
  
  
• 02-08 MQP advisor eval summaries (pdf)
• 02-08 MQP advisor evals averaged (pdf)
  
  
• Alumni feedback on WPI CS Objectives Importance -- 2002-08 data (pdf)
• Alumni feedback on WPI CS Objectives Preparation -- 2002-08 data (pdf)
• Alumni feedback on Preparation compared to Importance -- 2002-08 data (pdf)
  
  
• 1994 Alumni feedback on Preparation compared to Importance -- 2009 data (pdf)
• 1999 Alumni feedback on Preparation compared to Importance -- 2009 data (pdf)
• 2004 Alumni feedback on Preparation compared to Importance -- 2009 data (pdf)
• Alumni feedback on WPI CS Outcomes Importance -- 2009 data (pdf)
• Alumni feedback on WPI CS Outcomes Preparation -- 2009 data (pdf)
  
  
• MQP presentation evaluations 06-07 (pdf)
• MQP presentation evaluations 07-08 (pdf)
  
  
• Advising statistics (07-08) (txt)
• CS Course Enrollments (txt)
• CS courses, past 5 years
• Course Outcomes Summary
• Contributions of Courses to CORE and ADVANCED areas
• BS/MS data
• Evaluation of Transcripts
• Budget update (App.III) for full AY
• CS student employment & grad schools (02-07)
  
  
• Admissions: Class Profile

Templates

• All Templates
• 2008 Faculty Profile Template (.doc) {one needed per faculty member}
• 2008 Course Description Template (.doc) {one needed per course}
• Course Outcomes Worksheet (plain text) {maps course outcomes to dept. outcomes}

Documents

• 2010 Feedback to CS Dept about Alumni survey (.pdf)
• WPI 2010 Request for Evaluation by CAC
  
  
• Faculty Responsibilities for Assessment
• CCC, IMC & Library descriptions
• CDC description
• Class of 2006 Final Statistical Report from the CDC (pdf)
• Some Sample Undergraduate Schedules
• Letter re WPI's NEASC Accreditation (May 6, 2002) (.pdf)
• CS course flow chart (.jpg)

• 2006 Computer Science Department MQP Review
  • Slides for Feedback to Department
  • The Report (pdf)

• Displaying Course Materials during CAC Visit

• Response to CAC Preliminary Statement (html) {with update, 9 May 03}
• Key points of response to CAC, 2003 (html)
• Potential Objections and Responses to WPI CS Reply to CAC Preliminary Report (html)

Web Forms

• "Significant Contribution" to Outcomes Web Form
• Project Advisor's Evaluation of MQP --   (Draft revised version for 08-09)
• Web Form for CS Alumni Survey

Collections 2008

• Completed Faculty Profiles (html list)
• Completed Course Descriptions (html list)
• Completed Course Outcomes Worksheets (html list)
• Summary Course Evaluations

Collections 2002

• All-Course-Descriptions.doc (Word file)
• All-Course-Outcomes.doc (Word file)
• All-Faculty-Profiles.doc (Word file)

• Completed Faculty Profiles (html list)
• Completed Course Descriptions (html list)
• Completed Course Outcomes Worksheets (html list)