Overview
Regional Accreditation Agencies encourage continuous improvement by requiring higher education institutions to conduct internal Institutional Effectiveness (IE) processes. Educational leaders need to understand both the accreditation requirements governing these IE processes and how to manage the processes successfully. All such processes need to be informed by the institution’s mission, vision, and core values. Leaders also need to understand the nature and purpose of local and national direct and indirect methods of assessment that are utilized institution-wide to gather improvement and compliance data. They need to ensure that such data is analyzed so the results can be reported to stakeholders, one of the most important being the institution’s regional accreditor.
Instructions
For this assignment, compose a paper with the following:
- Analyze how institutional effectiveness and accreditation differ and the requirements of one regional accreditation agency to carry out Institutional Effectiveness processes.
- Defend the importance of institutional mission, vision, and core values.
- Compare how local and national direct and indirect assessment results should be gathered, analyzed, visualized, reported to stakeholders, stored, and published.
Ensure details and examples are provided throughout your paper.
Your paper must be 3pages (not including the required title, abstract, and references pages). Support the content of your paper with at least six different sources from scholarly peer-reviewed sources and/or the Bible. At least four sources must have been published within the past five years, and at least one source must be from the Bible. A source can be cited more than once. Current APA style must be followed throughout your paper.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.