Outcome-based assessments in Creatrix Campus: a way for continual improvement and accreditation

We know how taxing your accreditation route could get when it comes to collecting evidence, conducting outcome-based assessments, setting rubrics, providing feedback, running reports, and working on improvement. 

Today’s higher education institutions seek an efficient assessment process that supports outcome-based assessments, that capture, measure, and share learning milestones for the entire accreditation process. 

Since the seven years of developing our Assessments Management and Accreditation management modules, we have mastered what it really takes to design, implement, and sustain a simple yet effective assessment solution specifically for higher education.

The blog details how Creatrix helps leverage your overall institutional assessment process, improve student success, and provide continuous improvement with its Accreditation, Assessments, and OBE modules. Read it till the end.

 

What is an outcome-based assessment?

 

This simply means an assessment process that is aligned with the student’s learning outcomes throughout their graduation, that measures their performance level, and whose attendance data can be used for continuous improvement. 

 

Institutions today are keen on outcome attainment calculation to deal with various accreditation requirements and standards. Let’s see how Creatrix supports outcomes assessment.

 

How does Creatrix support Outcome-based assessment for continuous quality improvement?

 

 

1. Design different types of assessments and assignments

Assessment software shouldn’t be rigid. It should accommodate institutions to conduct different kinds of assessments for instant evaluation. 

Creatrix’s cutting-edge assessment module has a flexible solution with a transparent workflow that accommodates educators to create assessments of all kinds throughout the institution including competency-based assessments, rubrics-based assessments, outcome-based assessments, etc.

Institutions can easily configure and customize assessment rules as per your institution's requirements and manage the assessment process from start to finish without any hassles.

Talk about Assignments, Creatrix supports easy configuration of rapid tests, MCQs, quizzes, discussions, projects, articles, long papers, PPTs, etc to be updated automatically

 

2. OBE-complaint Online Assignments and Assessments with 5 levels of mapping

Institutions are eager to implement ongoing assessments to meet the diverse accreditation requirements. A tool that provides outcome achievement data and continuous improvement is what they most prefer. They wish for several ways to analyze, assess, and map students’ learning to attain POs, COs, and PEOs. 

 

 

At Creatrix we are aware of the hectic outcomes attainment calculations, which could become time-consuming and error-prone if done manually. The system is triggered to set threshold values and to map questions with the various outcomes for the attainment of the outcomes. 

We define objectives and outcomes, followed by five levels of mapping and three levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy mapping with our OBE software. We maintain a sufficient relationship between the assessments and outcomes in Creatrix., which gives you an unprecedented level of control when it comes to facing accreditation.
 

Faculty can set metrics for assessments, create a question bank, and collaborate with various stakeholders. The process is as simple as picking relevant questions from the question bank or template, mapping those assessments with various outcomes including Bloom’s Taxonomy, or any other attainment values, and generating assessments.

Based on the student outcome achievement data, the faculty gets to know the student performance, which she can share with them instantly. Students on the other hand get personalized support if in case their overall attainment is low.

 

 

3. Designing rubrics aligned assessments/assignments

The software facilitates faculty to easily configure rubrics for students’ assignments, assessments, quizzes, and tests in line with the respective accreditation guidelines. What’s even more interesting for the staff and faculty is the automatic calculation of grades for different assessment types using rubric tools to make the task easier and produce them.

The data collected can be more efficiently used by a dean/director/provost/vice-chancellor for accreditation purposes.

We all know rubrics in assessments are used to communicate clear evidence of learning as well as areas for improvement. Creatrix allows the creation of holistic and analytical rubrics to better understand student success and cover opportunities to improve.

 

4. Executing the outcomes-based assessments/assignments

Now with effective planning and designing, the next step is conducting assessments on any device, from anywhere, and administering them offline securely. 

With the online proctoring feature, institutions can conduct exams with no fear of student truancy. Students who show misconduct are dealt with in real time. There are other ways to monitor if the exam instructions are followed, questions are answered, expectations are met, and the exam is completed fairly.

 

5. Instant On-Screen Evaluation

Evaluation and grading, report, and feedback are essentials of any assessment and assignment. Creatrix’s online examination system has a unique evaluation system in place that helps in instant evaluation. Faculty gets to evaluate answer papers on-screen and check assignments for accuracy, followed by the generation of instant grade books with scores on every subject, section, and question of the test.

 

The grade book allows instructors to create flexible grading structure options and assign grades automatically. The best of all is, that the grades are auto-calculated with weights, followed by transcripts that display students’ performance. 
 
The set of validation and annotation tools helps in the efficient evaluation of assessment. Evaluators can even set a timer for evaluation. This immediate grading helps to make informed decisions on curriculum, and teaching/learning.

 

6. Assessment data to track and report performance

Creatrix lets the student learning outcome performance be tracked and reported in easy steps. There are scoring tools and Gap Analysis that let instructors assess core competency development in any program.

Our assessment module provides complete item analysis with statistical calculation through standard deviation/mean/median for accurate data on the level of teaching/learning happening to identify gaps. The configuration allows you to follow a systematic process to learn how well your institution is performing and work to improve the performance. 
 

 

There are numerous options for data visualization and countless reports that help to identify curriculum gaps and redundancies for improvement. You can easily generate reports with targeted learning outcomes to analyze the effective teaching/learning strategies, and steps to improve, from the overall feedback about the course/program, along with the suggested action for improvement.

Institutions can get actionable insights into the attainment of the assessment data through intuitive dashboards, and live reports which makes the assessment cycle more lucid. Some of the reports you get through Creatrix are Course Assessment teaching Strategy, Quiz Report (no of questions attempted, no of student present), Grade book, Assessment Outcome attainment, etc.

 

With the above reports, universities can compare outcomes and competency attainment across the years and plan well for the future. If the performance is poor, the university can collect recommendations, and create an action plan along with new teaching strategies from faculty and management to create possible ways to improve the performance.

 

7. Identify gaps at the early stage

Furthering the reporting process is the statistical calculation through standard deviation/mean/median. This gives accurate data on the level of teaching/learning and helps identify gaps.

Creatrix allows the comparison of aggregate data for easy evaluation of outcomes with the real-time report that helps at every level of your institution’s accreditation process.

 

8. Demonstrate continuous improvement against learning outcomes

With the reports, institutions can keep track of student progress, identify and remediate knowledge gaps, and demonstrate continuous improvement in learning outcomes. 

This by and far helps in satisfying the demands set by accrediting agencies and increases your institution’s eligibility for funding and grants.

 

How Creatrix Campus manages both Assessments and Outcomes for Accreditation Management?

 

An institution’s accreditation success lies in ongoing program assessment. To ensure that institutions should impart an education that is in line with their curricular goals. Together with it, a systematic evaluation process is nuclear to any strategic effort aimed at continual improvement. 

Creatrix's range of outcome-based assessment tools can assist your institutions to achieve your assessment objectives. We help institutions thoughtfully and strategically align their assignments and courses with curricular objectives and institutional outcomes for we believe that Outcomes Assessment is one of the strongest technology solutions available today for continuous improvement. 

Our unique workflows are tailored to suit the institution’s specific vision and mission, and we structure and vision, and we can make sure the data gathered through Outcomes Assessment is actionable and precise. Contact our team for assistance on how to carry out a successful institutional assessment and continuously improve toward the path of accreditation.

Get in touch with our team for more information.