Section 25.140  Requirements for Educational Unit Assessment Systems

Each educational unit shall be required to establish and maintain an assessment system for collecting and analyzing information on applicants' qualifications, candidates' and graduates' performance, and the unit's operations for the purpose of evaluating and improving the unit and its programs. 

a)         The assessment system shall describe the unit's design for collecting, analyzing, summarizing, and using information from the assessments of candidates, including measures that provide evidence of candidates' proficiency with respect to professional, State, and institutional standards.

b)         The assessment system shall be designed to collect information that enables the unit and its programs to:

1)         make decisions about candidates' qualifications and performance at the time of admission to the program, at appropriate transition points (including entry to and exit from clinical practice), and at program completion.

2)         demonstrate that admission requirements are related to candidates' success.

3)         use the results from assessments of candidates to evaluate and make improvements in the unit and its programs, courses, teaching, and field and clinical experiences.

4)         use the results of assessments of unit operations (e.g., faculty evaluations, graduate surveys, employer surveys) to evaluate and make improvements in the unit and its programs, courses, teaching, and field and clinical experiences.

c)         The assessment system shall identify the major assessments that are used by the unit and the programs and at what points during the unit's programs these assessments of candidates' performance occur.

d)         At the time of each unit's accreditation review, the unit shall present the performance data it has collected and analyzed since its last review, including the results of State certification testing, along with evidence that:

1)         The unit's assessment system is being implemented, evaluated, and refined;

2)         Performance assessments are being tested for accuracy, consistency, and fairness; and

3)         Data on candidates' performance from internal assessments as well as external measurements have been compiled and are being used to improve the unit and its programs.

(Source:  Amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 15831, effective October 3, 2005)