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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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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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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 (3/21/2023)

    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 to allow time for Nuventive’s implementation and training for faculty and staff, the annual assessment reporting deadline for AY 2022-23 has been moved to September 1, 2023.

  • OIEP’s Video Tutorials (3/21/2023)

    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 on OIEP’s website or on the YouTube channel Institutional Effectiveness at Mason.

  • Faculty and Staff Dashboard by Gender and Race/Ethnicity (2/16/2023)

    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 faculty, graduate teaching assistants, classified), full-time/part-time employment status, faculty rank, and race/ethnicity.

     

    The dashboard is only accessible from the Mason network or VPN. 

     

     

    Faculty and Staff Dashboard by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

  • OIEP’s October Newsletter (10/27/2022)

    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 Core assessment process, and more. If you didn’t receive the newsletter in your Mason email and would like to be added to our distribution list, please send an email to oiep@gmu.edu.
     
    OIEP Newsletter October 2022

  • New DFW and SET Results Dashboards (10/18/2022)

    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 SET Results dashboard displays student evaluation of teaching results for all available terms in which SETs were administered using Blue (currently accessible only by full-time faculty and staff).

     

    Dashboards are only accessible from the Mason network. If you are off campus, you must use the VPN to access.

  • OIEP at the Southern Association for Institutional Research 2022 Conference (10/18/2022)

    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 matching (PSM) to address the potential self-selection bias of student service interventions where random assignment is often times not possible.

  • Tk20 Replacement (10/4/2022)

    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 implemented for AY 2022-23 reporting by late spring 2023. All unit reports and documents in Tk20 have been extracted and archived. Information on implementation and training for the new tool will be shared as it becomes available. Please send any questions or concerns to oiep@gmu.edu.

  • Program Review (4/1/2022)
  • New Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) Questions (2/9/2022)

    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 Blue, the instrument is developed and approved by the Faculty Senate. Read the full statement sent to faculty from the Faculty Senate, Effective Teaching Committee, and Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning.

     

    In addition to the new standard questions, there are three optional pre-written questions that faculty can add to their evaluations which address the use of technology. Faculty are also still able to add up to 5 customized question in Blue.

     

  • Angela Detlev Retires (2/1/2022)

    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 of experience, not the least of which was insider knowledge of SCHEV.  She is known for  the veracity of her work, her diligence to her craft, her kindness to those with whom she works and her ability to question, hone and refine to produce what can only be described as exceptional work.  The work of OIEP requires clearing away the clutter, getting down to business and sometimes questioning and probing to ensure the question being asked will lead to the data and information required.  Angela did that work with aplomb.

     

    Angela starts her next adventure as an international jet-setter, enjoying her family unencumbered by IPEDS and SCHEV reports, surveys and the ever-present ad-hoc requests.  As per her request (and given current pandemic related dynamics) there was no grand formal sendoff which she so richly deserved.

     

 
Questions? Email the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at oiep@gmu.edu.