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Methods of Effectively Leveraging Departmental Assessment Programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2007

Michelle D. Deardorff
Michelle D. Deardorff
Affiliation:
Jackson State University
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Our collective experience as academics has led us to fear that departmental assessment plans will just sit on some anonymous shelf; our hard work will disappear into the black hole of administrative demands; and the lack of university response will become one more chip on our faculty's shoulders as yet another example of wasted effort. The question thus facing the departmental chair is: How do we ensure that our work benefits our programs? In other words, how do we make mandated assessment plans meaningful?

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THE PROFESSION SYMPOSIA
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 100 - 101
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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