Office of Academic Compliance
Academic compliance refers to policies, procedures, and practices in place to ensure that actions regarding degree and certificate programs – from the content of the offerings, to how and where they are delivered – adhere to institutional, state, accreditation, and federal requirements and standards.

How do we know how well students are learning?

The collection of student learning outcomes data at the course level within the college curriculum as well as within the disciplinary coursework is continuous and ongoing. A university assessment of quantitative reasoning was conducted in 2007-2008, 2013-2014, and 2023-2024 to determine fourth-year student competency across majors. 

Instrument

A faculty committee representing major disciplines and each undergraduate school developed a single-setting instrument to assess quantitative reasoning (Appendix A). The instrument, comprised of 25 multiple-choice questions, was administered online and participants were allotted one hour to complete the assessment in March, April, and May 2024. Institutional Research and Analytics (IRA) collaborated with programs across seven undergraduate schools to recruit a representative sample of 369 fourth-year students who consented to participate in the assessment (Appendix B). Students who completed the assessment received a $30 digital gift card.    

The test questions were designed to address three major topics in quantitative reasoning (Appendix C) and each question was mapped back to the defined learning outcomes (Appendix D):  

  1. general mathematics/mathematical reasoning (including arithmetic, geometry, and algebra2) (14 questions); 
  2. statistics/statistical reasoning (6 questions); and
  3. calculus/trigonometry (5 questions).