If one of the four themes was “Learning-Focused,” how does The Chicago School assess student learning?
The Chicago School is committed to a competency-based model of student learning. To ensure that we provide our students with an excellent education, each program regularly identifies learning expectations, measures learning outcomes, and uses assessment results to improve student learning in the future. The model is outlined in the school’s Plan for Assessing Student Learning Outcomes. This assessment system evaluates how successfully the school is realizing its mission. We define the outcomes for achieving the mission with four institutional learning goals: Scholarship, Diversity, Professional Behavior, and Professional Practice. Each program’s curriculum is clearly aligned to the mission of the school through a set of program competencies that determine the learning outcomes for the program, as well as for each individual course, and demonstrate the program’s contribution to the four institutional learning goals derived from the school’s mission.
