Is Academic Program Assessment the same as Academic Program Review (APR)?
No. Both are important activities, necessary for continued improvement, but the purposes and timelines are different. Academic Program Assessment is an ongoing process that occurs over cycles of one or two years and focuses entirely on student-specific outcomes (knowledge, skills, and abilities) of a single academic major, minor, or certificate program. Consistent with Arizona Board of Regents policy, an Academic Program Review occurs every seven years. It is used as a comprehensive evaluation of the overall effectiveness of an entire academic unit that may administer multiple degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. An Academic Program Review self-study will include information from the assessment activities of the unit’s programs, but will also provide information about the unit’s human and non-human resources, faculty qualifications, scholarship and service activities, and more. Academic Program Assessment is an internal activity in which the program faculty ex
