TY - GEN
T1 - Web-based course information system supporting accreditation
AU - Kumaran, Vidhya Sampath
AU - Lindquist, Timothy
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - An outcome-based assessment process has become a critical aspect of accreditation and program evolution in many universities. Transitioning to outcome-based processes pushes universities to document, coordinate, and maintain additional information. While these processes can improve course and program offerings, the added burden of managing the process and maintaining additional documentation stresses resources in most departments. This paper discusses a web-based database driven software system called Course Information System supporting Accreditation (CISA) developed for the Division of Computing Studies at Arizona State University to facilitate accreditation process by maintaining course and program objective/outcome information together with relationships among this descriptive information. Web pages provide public and password-protected user interfaces for viewing and maintaining course information, program information and the relationships among this information. The paper does not presume specific measures, but it does suggest an approach that works well with typical academic roles and responsibilities. The paper also describes the software design of our system, together with the technologies used in its implementation, in a manner supporting others who wish to adopt the system.
AB - An outcome-based assessment process has become a critical aspect of accreditation and program evolution in many universities. Transitioning to outcome-based processes pushes universities to document, coordinate, and maintain additional information. While these processes can improve course and program offerings, the added burden of managing the process and maintaining additional documentation stresses resources in most departments. This paper discusses a web-based database driven software system called Course Information System supporting Accreditation (CISA) developed for the Division of Computing Studies at Arizona State University to facilitate accreditation process by maintaining course and program objective/outcome information together with relationships among this descriptive information. Web pages provide public and password-protected user interfaces for viewing and maintaining course information, program information and the relationships among this information. The paper does not presume specific measures, but it does suggest an approach that works well with typical academic roles and responsibilities. The paper also describes the software design of our system, together with the technologies used in its implementation, in a manner supporting others who wish to adopt the system.
KW - Accreditation
KW - CISA
KW - Course information system
KW - Outcome-based assessment
KW - Program evolution
KW - Web-based application
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418140
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418140
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50049120527
SN - 1424410843
SN - 9781424410842
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
SP - T3E19-T3E24
BT - 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
T2 - 37th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
Y2 - 10 October 2007 through 13 October 2007
ER -