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Report Title | Brief Description | Sponsoring Department | Summary Report | Completed |
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Student Life Studies Client Follow-Up - Spring/Summer 2021 | Starting in summer 2020, Student Life Studies staff members started scheduling meetings with clients several weeks after assessment projects were completed. The purpose of these follow-up meetings was to find out what information from the report stood out to clients, how clients might use or share the results, or if there was any additional analysis Student Life Studies could provide. The department wanted to gather feedback from clients to know if these short follow-up meetings are beneficial or if the department could do something to make them more helpful. This is the second time this particular assessment was administered; the first was in fall 2020. | Student Life Studies | Client-Follow-Up-Summary-Report.pdf | 09/03/2021 |
Client Follow-Up Feedback | Starting in summer 2020, Student Life Studies staff members began scheduling meetings with clients several weeks after assessment projects were completed. The purpose of these follow-up meetings was to find out what information from the report stood out to clients, how clients might use or share the results, or if there was any additional analysis Student Life Studies could provide. The department wanted to gather feedback from clients to know if these short follow-up meetings were beneficial or if the department could do something to make them more helpful. This is the third time this assessment was administered; the first was in fall 2020. | Student Life Studies | Client-Follow-Up-Summary-Report.pdf | 01/26/2022 |
Rec Sports Facilities Customer Service | Staff from the Department of Recreational Sports contacted Student Life Studies to assist with an assessment to gather information from students relating to their satisfaction with the Rec Center facility spaces and interactions with their staff. More specifically, the Rec Center staff wanted to measure the satisfaction or dissatisfaction level with facility spaces and to learn where improvements to facilities, operations, and programs could be made to make students' experiences at the Rec Center more enjoyable. This is the fourth time the department has worked with Student Life Studies to concentrate on assessing the facilities within the Rec Center. Past assessments occurred in 2011, 2013, and 2017; however, this year was the first time the department looked at every area separately within the department rather than overall satisfaction with the facilities. | Recreational Sports | Summary-Report-Rec-Sports-Facilities-2020.pdf | 04/13/2020 |
Sex in the Dark Workshop 2019-2020 (Health Promotions ODSL) | Sex in the Dark is a workshop conducted by Health Promotion (HP) to increase the knowledge of students in regards to their sexual health. Learning outcomes developed for Sex in the Dark workshop include participants reporting increased knowledge of healthy sexual behaviors, and able to recite the proper steps to apply a condom as a result of attending the workshop. | Offices of the Dean of Student Life | Sex-in-the-Dark-2019-2020-Summary-Report.pdf | 05/12/2020 |
DoIT Customer Satisfaction Survey 2019-2020 | Results of the yearly Division of Student Affairs Department of Information Technology customer satisfaction survey are summarized and recommendations included in the report. | Information Technology | DoIT-CS-2020-Summary-Report.pdf | 09/20/2020 |
2023 De-Stress Fest Summary Report | Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) partnered with various offices across campus to host De-Stress Fest. This program was held on March 23, 2023, and the program was designed to teach participants the importance of self-care, participate in activities to lower stress, and learn about campus resources. Participants were assessed at the event after engaging in the activities to gauge what students learned about self-care and the resources that were present at the event. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) has provided demographic information for the event in the past, but this is the first time since 2019 that SAPAR has created an assessment for the event. | Recreational Sports | 2023-DeStress-Fest-Summary-Report.pdf | 04/25/2023 |
De-Stress Fest 2024 | Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) partnered with various offices across campus to host De-Stress Fest. This program was held on March 6, 2024, and the program was designed to teach participants the importance of self-care, participate in activities to lower stress, and learn about campus resources. Rec Sports had the following two outcomes for De-Stress Fest: 1. Participants will identify at least two resources that could help increase their wellness. Participants were assessed at the event after engaging in the activities to gauge what students learned about self-care and if the two outcomes were accomplished. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) worked with Rec Sports since 2018 to assess De-Stress Fest either through providing demographics of student attendees or administering a survey. | Recreational Sports | Summary-Report-De-Stress-Fest-March-2024.pdf | 03/18/2024 |
Intramural Sports Participation Survey | Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) offers dozens of intramural activities each semester for a wide range of skill levels. Each year, more than 13,000 students participate in the intramural program. Staff members with Intramural Sports wanted to assess students who participated in the intramural program during the spring 2023 semester to understand their experiences and how to improve the program for the future. While Student Affairs Strategic Planning has worked with Rec Sports in the past, this was the first year to work specifically with Intramural Sports to assess their program. | Recreational Sports | Summary-Report-Intramurals-2023.pdf | 06/29/2023 |
Rec Sports Intramural Sports Participants - Fall 2023 | Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) offers dozens of intramural activities each semester for a wide range of skill levels. Each year, more than 13,000 students participate in the intramural program. Staff members with Intramural Sports wanted to assess students who participated in the intramural program during the fall 2023 semester to understand their experiences and how to improve the program for the future. This is the second time Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research worked with Intramural Sports to assess their program. | Recreational Sports | Summary-Report-Intramurals-Fall-2023.pdf | 12/20/2023 |
Client Focus Groups | One goal for Student Life Studies is to provide quality assessment services to facilitate client planning and decision-making. To measure this goal and associated outcomes, the department conducted focus groups with clients to understand the effectiveness and quality of the services offered. Student Life Studies conducts focus groups approximately every three years to learn about clients’ experiences working with the department. Student Life Studies staff will use the data collected to improve services provided for Division of Student Affairs staff. | Student Life Studies | Report-2019-Focus-Groups.pdf | 03/19/2020 |
Assessment Basic Courses Training Series Assessment - 2022-2023 | One goal for Student Affairs Strategic Planning was to educate and develop staff within the Division of Student Affairs about assessment. To accomplish this goal, the department coordinated an Assessment Basic Courses (ABCs) training series throughout the 2022-2023 academic year. Five workshops were presented for the 2022-2023 academic year over the following topics: Assessment Planning Student Affairs Strategic Planning wanted to assess the participants’ learning at each workshop to understand if the intended learning outcomes for each one was met. This is the fourth time Student Affairs Strategic Planning assessed sessions of a year-long training series. | Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research | Summary-Report-ABC-Training-Series-22-23.pdf | 07/19/2023 |
SAPAR Client Focus Groups - Summer 2022 | One goal for Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) is to provide quality assessment services to facilitate client planning and decision-making. To measure this goal and associated outcomes, the department conducted focus groups with clients to understand the effectiveness and quality of the services offered. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research conducts focus groups approximately every three years to learn about clients’ experiences working with the department. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research will use the data collected to improve services provided to the Division of Student Affairs (DSA). The department has been conducting focus groups every three years since the summer of 2009. | Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research | Report-2022-Focus-Groups.pdf | 02/01/2023 |
Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference SBSLC 2023: Next Stop: Reaching New Limits | On January 19-21, 2023, the Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference (SBSLC) held its 34th annual conference at Texas A&M University. A series of surveys were developed to assess the student and advisor participants’ experiences attending the conference overall, participants’ experience at the Charles E. Williams II Advanced Leadership Institute (ALI), the breakfast speaker, the Town Hall, the closing ceremony, and evaluations of individual workshops the conference hosted. | Multicultural Services | SBSLC_2023_Summary_Report_Final.pdf | 03/23/2023 |
SBSLC 2020: Igniting the Dream: I the Flame, We the Fire | On January 16 -18, 2020, the Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference (SBSLC) held its 32nd annual conference at Texas A&M University. A series of surveys were developed to assess the student participants’ experience attending the conference overall, the organizations at the Career and Graduate School fair, 16 participants’ experience at the Charles E. Williams II Advanced Leadership Institute (ALI), and the 72 attending advisors. The following report summarizes the results of those surveys, and recommendations based on the results. | Multicultural Services | SBSLC_2020_Summary_Report_Final.pdf | 04/06/2020 |
SLS Assessment Questionnaire Feedback - Fall 2020 | On August 1, 2020, Student Life Studies launched a new Assessment Questionnaire (AQ) form. The changes for updating the department’s intake form was based on frustrations clients expressed during the focus groups held in May 2019 on Student Life Studies’ services. The department wanted to gather feedback from clients who completed the new AQ form since it was launched to know if the changes improved clients’ experience completing this form. This is the first time this particular assessment was administered. | Student Life Studies | AQ-Form-Summary-Report.pdf | 12/21/2020 |
Report Title | Brief Description | Sponsoring Department | Summary Report | Completed |