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Creating an Organization Committed to Learning and Improvement

 

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Strategic Thinking and Planning

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Commitment to Learning and Improvement

The institution conducts sustained, evidence-based, and participatory discussions about how effectively it is accomplishing its purposes and achieving its educational objectives. These activities inform both institutional planning and systematic evaluations of educational effectiveness. The results of institutional inquiry, research, and data collection are used to establish priorities at different levels of the institution,and to revise institutional purposes, structures, and approaches to teaching, learning, and scholarly work.

UC Davis Standard 4 Reflective Essay

Strategic Thinking and Planning
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WASC Guidelines
A clear charge to planning bodies with a regular schedule and the existence of an understandable and coherent plan for assessing the attainment of educational objectives must be developed. Evidence of the ways the results of planning and evaluation are linked to decision-making is demonstrable.




Commitment to Learning and Improvement
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WASC Guidelines
The institution exhibits existence of clear institutional research capacities with appropriate reporting lines and support appropriate to the institution’s size and scope. Institutional research or equivalent databases are developed that are sufficient to meet all external reporting needs (e.g.IPEDS), and there are appropriate ways to access or disseminate this information through publications, reports, or widely-accessible databases.


WASC Guidelines
The institution has clear, well established policies and practices for gathering and analyzing information that leads to a culture of evidence and improvement.







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