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Using Evidence to Inform Accreditation Decisions: Council on Social Work Education
Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, pp.25-30
Winter 2018
Abstract
Industries ranging from healthcare to higher education have embraced strategies to leverage data as tools for evidence-based decision making. Data integration efforts have seen increased use as a critical part of institutional efforts (faculty and administration) to secure programs’ ongoing accreditation (Blaich & Wise, 2011; Emil & Cress, 2014; Hutchings, 2010). Despite the mounting pressures from accreditation agencies, the literature indicates that using evidence to take meaningful action is still a concern (Rickards & StittBergh, 2016; Schoepp & Benson, 2016). While there is no easy answer to this dilemma, the application of a Data Engagement Framework that guides institutions in a variation of the planning, doing, checking and acting (PDCA) cycle could be an important tool in sustained higher education accreditation. Increasingly, institutions of higher education are experiencing pressure from accrediting agencies for transparency and student learning accountability. This paper will explore one university’s efforts to apply a data-driven approach to its Council on Social Work Accreditation (CSWE) reaffirmation efforts. We propose the Data Engagement Framework for data integration as a potential guiding structure for higher education to earn and sustain accreditation from regulatory bodies. This paper presents the framework and interview content from key stakeholders who recently applied this framework in their reaccreditation process.
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- Title
- Using Evidence to Inform Accreditation Decisions
- Publication Details
- Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, pp.25-30
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Association for Assessment of Learning in Higher Education; Lexington, Kentucky
- Identifiers
- 99381829041706600
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English