Use the Co-Curricular Unit Checklist below as a guide when developing your unit assessment plan and report.

1.  Institutional mission, program mission, and graduate attributes:

• Have you indicated the institutional mission, the program mission, and the graduate attributes that your assessment plan supports?

2.  Program outcomes:

• Do you have a manageable number of intended outcomes? 4-6 is common.
• Where applicable, do your outcomes address what your program wants students to know (cognitive outcomes), think (attitudinal outcomes), or do (behavioral or performance outcomes)? (Note: not all intended outcomes will be student learning outcomes - some may be operational in nature).
• Have you met and collaborated as a unit in determining your intended outcomes?
• Are your outcomes clear, simple, straightforward, and nontechnical statements of what your program wants to happen as a result of its activities? 
• Where applicable, have you clearly linked your program outcomes to one or more of Lindenwood's graduate attributes?

3.  Assessment methods and criteria for success (benchmarks):

• Have you used multiple means of assessment for each program intended outcome? For every intended outcome, include at least two means of assessing that outcome.
• Is there a clear, logical connection between the program outcome and the chosen method of assessment?
• For any given outcome, have you included at least one direct means of assessment?
• Have you included enough detail in your plan such that it is clear to any reader what is being assessed how and when?
• Have you indicated a benchmark for each means of assessment?
• Is each benchmark stated clearly?
• In setting each benchmark, have you been ambitious but yet realistic?
• Do you have unit consensus as to the chosen methods of assessment and benchmarks?

4.  Data/results:

• Are the data cited in the report relevant in that they help answer the question "were the intended outcomes achieved?"
• Are sufficient data provided such that the reader can tell that the described assessments actually occurred?

5.  Use of results:

• Have you indicated actions your program has taken in response to your assessment findings (i.e., have you "closed the loop")?
• Do the actions cited logically flow from the intended outcomes and assessment methods used?
• Did you meet and collaborate as a unit when making decisions regarding actions taken in response to the findings?