Please ensure that your evaluation/assessment plan addresses the following items:

Explain how you will measure the overall project effectiveness. 

• Project goals: For each of the project goals identified in Section 4, specify metrics you will use to determine if the goals have been achieved.  
• Student learning outcomes: Describe the evidence that will be used to measure impact on student learning outcomes and experiences and/or success. Include direct and indirect assessments that will serve as: 
  • Formative assessment that will help you monitor the effectiveness of the project as it evolves. Examples of formative assessments include conducting mid-semester student surveys or focus groups to adjust instruction, using course evaluations to refine subsequent course offerings, and journaling instructor self-reflections to track and modify instruction.   
  • Summative assessments that will help you evaluate student learning or success at the end of the project. Examples of summative assessments include final projects, exams, standardized tests. 

Examples of direct assessments could include measures of student performance, extent of equity in learning outcomes for diverse students, etc.  

Examples of indirect assessments could include enrollment change, student perspectives on inclusive learning experiences and sense of belonging, course DFW rates, program graduation rates (for multi-course series). 

You could also visually represent your assessment plan using the table shown below.