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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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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 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
About Us

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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Academic and Student Learning Assessment


TK20

 

Tk20 is Mason’s assessment planning and reporting software tool. All academic and administrative units will enter their annual assessment data in this system. Tk20 is a robust, interactive tool that can be used for tracking progress toward goals, and reporting for accreditation.

 

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Academic programs and certain certificate programs are required to identify student learning outcomes, and map those outcomes to their curriculum through a curriculum map. Programs will assess one outcome per year and report on that assessment in the Tk20 assessment management system.

 

Annual Assessment Templates

All academic and student support units must enter the unit’s mission statement, goals, objectives, methods and measures, results and analysis, and improvement plans into Tk20 as shown in the templates below.
 
Mason Program Assessment Report Template Tk20 Template (Excel)

Mason Program Assessment Report Tk20 Template (Word)

Resources

For more information on administrative unit assessment and worksheets, please refer to the resources below.

Assessment Schedule
All degree programs must enter the following into Tk20 by June 30, 2020:

  • Measures, Findings and Improvement Plans for the student learning outcome (SLO) assessed in 2019-20.
  • Fill out Improvements Made to report on steps taken from previous assessment cycles to improve student learning.
  • Update the mission statement, SLOs and curriculum map, if necessary.
  • New degree programs need to have a mission statement, curriculum map, and student learning outcomes.
TK20

Tk20 is Mason’s assessment planning and reporting software tool. All academic and administrative units will enter their annual assessment data in this system. Tk20 is a robust, interactive tool that can be used for tracking progress toward goals, and reporting for accreditation. For user information, please refer to the quick start guide.

If you are a new user or are having trouble logging in, please contact Karen Manley at kmanley@gmu.edu or 703-993-8834.