TrueOutcomes™

Turning Data into Results

Streamline outcomes assessment and continuous improvement efforts with a complete, online solution from TrueOutcomes.™

What Is Learning Outcomes Management?

Today’s higher education institutions face major assessment challenges as they seek to continuously improve their programs, maximize student learning on their campuses, and provide information to accreditation boards and other stakeholders. Learning Outcomes Management is a systematic approach of designing, measuring, monitoring and validating student learning outcomes that can help institutions:

•		Achieve greater efficiency in the accreditation and continuous improvement process
•		Move into the “culture of evidence” that accrediting agencies demand

The TrueOutcomes Solution

The TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager is a complete, web-based solution that facilitates every aspect of Learning Outcomes Management from assigning, assessing, and tracking to analyzing and making evidence-based decisions to improve student learning outcomes and facilitate continuous improvement. Designed for institution-wide implementation, Assessment Manager includes program-level assessments and reports, including:

•		Improved curricular coherence through alignment of every academic course with learning outcomes
•		A chronological report of curricular changes and the rationale
•		A report of student achievement against standards

A Solution That Supports Faculty Excellence

Your colleagues are effective instructors and active professionals who continually reflect on and improve their teaching. TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager helps make visible to the larger community the good work your colleagues are doing and affirms the central role of faculty in teaching and learning at your institution. TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager helps you support faculty with:

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Intuitive, step-by-step procedures for creating course goals, rubrics, and surveys that are aligned with program standards/outcomes.

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A holistic approach to capture learning outcome data by aligning curriculum to outcomes.

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Ease of use standards library allows administrators to create new standards manually or pre-populate from existing standards:

•		Accrediting Agencies (NCATE, ABET, WASC, etc.)
•		Professional Certification (NCLEX, CCNE, etc.)
•		Institutional, Departmental, or Course Standards

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Visibility into student competencies they can use to achieve measurable improvement in retention and performance.

A Comprehensive, Integrated Solution

Accrediting agencies want assessment data that show educational effectiveness and continuous improvement. TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager provides program-level assessments and reports showing the curriculum plan, student achievement against standards, and a record of improvements to the curriculum.

	•		Multiple Measures
			Old patterns of evidence were anecdotal or connected only weakly to educational outcomes. Accrediting agencies expect multiple measures of educational outcomes. TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager survey module can be used for course evaluation, student/alumni/employer surveys, focus groups, exit interviews and more. The performance assessment module can be used for local or nationally normed exams, rubric-based evaluation of student work, capstone project/senior thesis review, and other direct measures of student performance.
	•		Sustainable Development
			With TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager, you can move into the “culture of evidence” that accrediting agencies demand. The cyclical accreditation process used to be several years of peace and 18 months of panic. Now accrediting agencies expect to see evidence of ongoing assessment since the last visit, not just the last 18 months. TrueOutcomes provides the technology to support continuous, sustainable assessment
	•		Data Aggregation & Reporting
			Flexible system configuration enables robust reporting capabilities to meet the unique need of any institution. TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager provides instructors, support staff and administrators with multiple query and reporting options to easily generate reports that can be analyzed by course, department, school or institution.
	•		System Integration
			TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager integrates with your Student Information System (SIS) and TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager. By implementing TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager, your institution increases its efficiency in reducing data integration costs and increases its effectiveness in ensuring accuracy by the elimination of the manual steps. TrueOutcomes Assessment Manager’s flexible online tools are engineered to integrate with SunGard Banner, Oracle (Peoplesoft), Datatel and other systems.