RESEARCH PAPER: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND MANAGEMENT OF
ASSESSMENT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONSOVERVIEWRegional Accreditation Agencies encourage continuous improvement by requiring highereducation institutions to conduct internal Institutional Effectiveness (IE) processes. Educationalleaders need to understand both the accreditation requirements governing these IE processes andhow to manage the processes successfully. All such processes need to be informed by theinstitution’s mission, vision, and core values. Leaders also need to understand the nature andpurpose of local and national direct and indirect methods of assessment that are utilizedinstitution-wide to gather improvement and compliance data. They need to ensure that such datais analyzed so the results can be reported to stakeholders, one of the most important being theinstitution’s regional accreditor.INSTRUCTIONSFor this assignment, compose a paper with the following:1. Analyze how institutional effectiveness and accreditation differ and the requirements ofone regional accreditation agency to carry out Institutional Effectiveness processes.2. Defend the importance of institutional mission, vision, and core values.3. Compare how local and national direct and indirect assessment results should begathered, analyzed, visualized, reported to stakeholders, stored, and published.Ensure details and examples are provided throughout your paper.Your paper must be 5 pages (not including the required title, abstract, and references pages).Support the content of your paper with at least six different sources from scholarly peer-reviewedsources and/or the Bible. At least four sources must have been published within the past fiveyears, and at least one source must be from the Bible. A source can be cited more than once.