Last March at the 2018 NACADA Region 1 conference, I attended a workshop on assessment in academic advising. The workshop was extremely helpful in demonstrating how assessment and evaluation can help improve academic advising programs as a whole, as well as specific services and content provided to students by an advising office.

In my graduate course on Evaluation and Outcomes Assessment, I participated in a class project that evaluated a fictional career services department’s efforts to prepare undergraduates for internships. Although my group split up writing the paper and creating the presentation based on the stages of evaluation we each covered, we were responsible for understanding how all the pieces cohere. Our group’s problem involved assessing multiple constituencies within our our fictional university session. As a result, comprehensive assessment required contacting them and gathering feedback from each one in ways that were convenient for the participants.

This artifact is a copy of our group’s final presentation. It demonstrates the problem and an assessment approach used, which included asking the right questions, to collecting, compiling, analyzing, and presenting the data.