State Higher Education System-wide Assessment

The State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) gathers “reports of institutional effectiveness” (ROIE) annually to document (among other things) student achievement of selected learning outcomes at Virginia public colleges and universities. ROIE currently include data on student competence in written communication, technology/information literacy, quantitative reasoning, and scientific reasoning. Each campus creates a mission-specific definition of the outcome and administers its own assessment, reporting the percentages of students meeting the campus’s competency requirements. The SCHEV Web site includes each campus’s definitions of the outcomes and explanations of the assessment procedures used.

ROIE also include fourteen “system wide measures” reported uniformly by all institutions and “institution specific measures” that highlight characteristics chosen by each school as important to institutional mission and vision. The SCHEV Web site includes both general information and the individual campus reports for the entire Virginia public higher education system.