UVI - Office of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

The Office of Student Learning Assessment (OSLA) provides resources, advocacy, training and consulting services to academic Divisions to facilitate the development and implementation of adaptive, responsive, faculty-led student learning outcomes assessment plans, processes and practices that uses assessment results to continuously improve academic programs and achieve student success.

OSLA’s Long Term Goal and Objectives

            OSLA’s long-term goal is to spearhead UVI’s transformation into a ‘culture of evidence’ and a learner-centered institution committed to student success.  To specifically impact the culture change, OSLA must achieve several related strategic objectives:

OSLA’s Strategic Objectives

            Given UVI’s current state among faculty, administration, staff and community, five key strategic objectives are important and relevant to transforming UVI into a ‘culture of evidence’ and a learner-centered institution committed to student success:

1. Encourage dialogue, raise consciousness, build consensus and establish an authentic learning community based upon greater trust, higher quality communication and more inclusive decision-making practices;
2. Reframe the thinking and approaches towards learning outcomes assessment from an end-of-term reporting ritual to an ongoing process of continuous reflection, organizational learning and improvement;
3. Approach student learning as a comprehensive, holistic, transformative activity that integrates in-class academic learning and out-of-classroom student development and learning experiences;
4. Make better use of UVI’s current technology, systems and data and identify additional enabling technology available in the marketplace;
5. Better structure and align UVI’s educational architecture and curriculum such that is operates to place learning first in every policy, program and practice.