Research Planning Assessment / Services
The Office of Research Planning and Assessment (RPA) offers the following services to the Meredith College campus community.
Assessment
- Workshops to write/revise program and student learning outcomes
- The development of assessment plans, including,
- Assessment matrices
- Performance criteria and metrics
- Development of direct and indirect methods to gather evidence, including,
- Assessment instruments (e.g. performance tasks and rubrics, checklists, surveys)
- Online rubrics for easy data entry,
- Focus interviews
- Data analysis
- Assistance in streamlining assessment processes
- Assistance with Comprehensive Program Assessment processes
- Review of Continuous Improvement Reports
- Assistance with program accreditation processes
- Design and assessment of SOTL projects
Survey Research
- Assistance identifying data needs
- Survey development and implementation
- Analysis of data collected
- Reporting on assessment/accreditation surveys
Institutional Research
- Provide the official Meredith enrollment, graduation and completion rates
- Provide the Dashboard to the Board of Trustees
- Provide departmental specific data for program review/annual reports
- Assistance with interpretation of data and trend analysis
- Conducting special projects on request
Contact Information
C. Dianne Raubenheimer,
Director of Office of Research, Planning and Assessment
Johnson Hall third floor, 308
(919) 760-8913
Fax: (919) 760-8606
raubenhe@meredith.edu