Office of Research and Assessment

Assessment is a tool for reflection and improvement. Assessing our constituents helps us ask important questions about teaching and learning, discover whether what we are doing is effective, experiment with new approaches, and evaluate whether what we and our students are doing is actually resulting in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions we believe are critical.

—Excerpt: Lewis & Clark NCATE Preconditions Report

Mission

The mission of the Office of Research & Assessment is to validate and ensure candidate, program, faculty, and institutional success within the Graduate School of Education & Counseling through the systematic provision of data-based documentation of the school’s strengths and challenges.

Services

• Collect and analyze data for institutional reports
• Collect and analyze data for program accreditation
• Implement, systemize, and refine assessment systems
• Analyze faculty evaluation data for professional development needs
• Determine if assessments are or can be an accurate predictor of candidate success
• Provide in-depth reports from the data, including longitudinal reports of changes in effectiveness

Only through the regular assessment of our students and graduates, their supervisors, and other stakeholders in the community, can the Graduate School of Education and Counseling successfully evaluate the effectiveness of our programs.

Assessment Documentation

• Continuing Administrator - EdS/Licensure
• CORE Program
• Doctor in Educational Leadership
• English for Speakers of Other Languages Endorsement
• Initial Administrator - EdS/Licensure
• MAT, Early Childhood/Elementary
• MAT, Middle Level/High School
• • MLHS Art
  • MLHS Language Arts
  • MLHS Math
  • MLHS Science
  • MLHS Social Studies
• MEd in Curriculum & Instruction
• MEd in Educational Studies
• MEd in School Counseling
• Reading Specialist Endorsement
• Special Education - MEd/Endorsement
• Title II Report
• Results of State Licensure Exams 

Contact

Office of Research & Assessment (MSC 93)
Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97210

Barbara Shepperson, Director
assess@lclark.edu
503-768-6180

Damian Miller, Coordinator of Instructional Technology & Program Assessment
assess@lclark.edu
503-768-6184

Lisa Todd, Administrative Coordinator
assess@lclark.edu
503-768-6180

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