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Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning - George Mason University
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Data with purpose. The qualitative and quantitative information OIEP curates, analyzes, and publishes illuminates trends, forecasts potential and contributes to the ongoing planning initiatives of the university including strategic institutional goals, program planning and innovation, and student success.

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institutional Effectiveness

How do we know what we are doing works? Defining and assessing student learning outcomes, engaging in rigorous program review, conducting surveys to understand experience and satisfaction and student evaluations of teaching are all ways in which Mason can learn more about how we are doing and what we can improve.

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Mason's Assessment Framework
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Data Analytics and Research

Want to learn more about Mason? Explore the reports here to learn more about applicants to graduates, survey outcomes, human resources and planning.

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Student Evaluations of Teaching

In consultation with the University Effective Teaching Committee, Faculty Senate Chair, the Provost, the Registrar and ITS, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning has selected a new way to conduct student evaluations of teaching. This online format will meet institutional needs in an environmentally friendly and fiscally responsible way. The evaluation software Blue by Explorance was chosen for its functionality, ease of use and demonstrated success at many intuitions, including several in Virginia.

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Student Success

What does the student lifecycle at Mason look like? From where do our applicants come? Where do our admitted students enroll? Once enrolled, how many students are retained to the on the path to graduation? What are the career outcomes? Learn more with these resources.

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Resources

Find how to use our reports, answers to common questions and how to request data not already available

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About Us
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OIEP advances the strategic goals of George Mason University through collaborations and partnerships that engage stakeholders (senior leaders/administration, faculty, staff and students) in data-informed strategic, operational and tactical decisions. OIEP does this by capitalizing on our experience and professional judgment drawing upon quantitative and qualitative analytic information.

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Nuventive: Mason’s New Assessment Planning and Reporting Tool

Posted: March 21, 2023 at 2:52 pm

Nuventive has been selected as Mason’s new assessment planning and reporting software tool. Updates will be provided throughout the spring and summer 2023, including training and workshop schedules. In order […]

OIEP’s Video Tutorials

Posted: March 21, 2023 at 1:44 pm, Last Updated: March 21, 2023 at 3:07 pm

OIEP has created video trainings as resources to support faculty and staff in areas including annual assessment, Academic Program Review, and building surveys in Qualtrics. The videos can be found […]

Faculty and Staff Dashboard by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

Posted: February 16, 2023 at 4:51 pm, Last Updated: February 16, 2023 at 4:53 pm

OIEP has created a new dashboard that explores the diversity of Mason’s faculty and staff. The dashboard includes employee headcount and FTE by division, department, gender, employee category (e.g., tenured […]

OIEP’s October Newsletter

Posted: October 27, 2022 at 11:08 am, Last Updated: October 27, 2022 at 11:10 am

OIEP’s October 2022 newsletter highlights available self-service resources, a revised data request form partnership with the Office of the University Registrar, a new assessment council structure, updates to the Mason […]

New DFW and SET Results Dashboards

Posted: October 18, 2022 at 4:08 pm

OIEP has created two new dashboards: DFW and SET Results.  The DFW dashboard allows users to explore course DFW (final student grades of ‘D’, ‘F’, or a withdrawal) rates and counts. The […]

OIEP at the Southern Association for Institutional Research 2022 Conference

Posted: October 18, 2022 at 3:24 pm, Last Updated: October 18, 2022 at 3:27 pm

Members of the OIEP traveled to New Orleans in October to present a session at the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) annual conference on how to use propensity score […]

Tk20 Replacement

Posted: October 4, 2022 at 9:46 am

Mason’s Tk20 contract for annual academic and administrative assessment reporting expired in August. The RFP process for its replacement is well underway with the expectation of having a new tool […]

New Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) Questions

Posted: February 9, 2022 at 11:16 am

The Faculty Senate has approved new questions for student evaluations of teaching to be used starting this spring. While the SET process is administered by OIEP using the online software […]

Angela Detlev Retires

Posted: February 1, 2022 at 4:43 pm

After more than 13 years at Mason, Angela Detlev retired on February 1, 2022.   As you all know, Angela is a wealth of knowledge having brought to Mason years […]

New Retention and Diversity Dashboards

Posted: September 13, 2021 at 1:30 pm

OIEP is kicking off the fall semester with two exciting new dashboards: First-Time, Full-Time Baccalaureate Retention and Graduation Rates and Diversity at Mason.  All dashboards can be filtered in multiple and cumulative […]