On-going program assessment is essential to deliver high quality teacher education programs. Each of our programs have identified key assessment measures and student learning outcomes that align with the on-going program assessment required by the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) and the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).
The UMD Department of Education uses TK20 to facilitate data collection to discuss and analyze data on a regular basis through the lens of program effectiveness and program improvement. The UMD Department of Education has a unit level assessment plan to ensure our program data is reviewed on a regular cycle and discussed on a regular basis with the program faculty, the Community Advisory Council on Teacher Education (CACTE), and the Administrative Council. Additionally, programs continually review their data during program meetings and discuss there MN PELSB PERCA Goals in relations to their on-going data analysis.
Assessment Plan
- Teacher Education Assessment Plan: Overview of Data Analysis at the Unit, Program and Major Level
- Teacher Education Program Structure: Overview of the Programs, Majors, Departments and Colleges that integrate with Teacher Preparation at the University of Minnesota Duluth
Assessment alignment to PELSB Unit Level Standards
Program/Major level data analysis can be viewed by using the left navigation tool bar (restricted to faculty aligned with each licensure area)
- IESE Assessment: Integrated Elementary & Special Education Major & Special Education: Academic Behavioral Strategist Post Bac
- STEP Assessment: Art Education, Music Education, Physical Education, Public Health-School, Teaching Communication Arts & Literature, Teaching Earth & Space Science, Teaching French, Teaching German, Teaching Life Science, Teaching Mathematics, Teaching Physical Science (Chemistry/Physics), Teaching Social Studies, and Teaching Spanish.
- UECH Assessment: Unified Early Childhood Studies Major & Early Childhood Special Education Post Bac
Unit Level Data Analysis
Key Assessments
PELSB requires the monitoring and assessing candidates' attainment of standards at a minimum of three identified checkpoints after admission throughout the professional education sequence (Sub. 6B). Also, a unit collects, aggregates, analyzes and uses aggregated data from its key assessments to evaluate program effectiveness and to make program improvement changes as part of the PERCA process (Sub 7A, 7B).
- Fall semester key assessment courses aligned to assessment tool in TK20
- Spring semester key assessment courses aligned to assessment tool in TK20
Key Assessment Faculty Expectations
- Faculty establish an Assessment Tool (rubric, etc) with the Accreditation Director who add it to the TK20 Key Assessment library. This must occur during the semester prior to the Assessment Tool's use. Faculty use common unit level rubrics for unit plan and lesson plan.
- Each semester, faculty ensure the Assessment Tool (rubric, etc) is accurate by conferring with the Accreditation Director. Any known changes to the existing rubric must be communicated to the Accreditation Director as soon as possible.
- Each semester, faculty must meet the deadline to enter required Key Assessment scores into TK20. Deadline is on or before two weeks after the end of the semester.
Unit Level Assessment Data (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
Lesson Plan Rubric (Unit Level Common)
Unit Plan Rubric (Unit Level Common)
- Data Analysis (starting 2018-2019 academic year)
Student Teaching Evaluation Final Feedback Form (Unit Level Common)
This rubric is completed by the student, cooperating teacher and university supervisor at the mid-point and end of the student teaching experience.
edTPA (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
The edTPA is a teacher performance assessment that all teacher education graduates are required to complete in order to be eligible for licensure. The MN Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board requires the edTPA to be submitted but there isn't a required cut score for the license applicant to be recommended for licensure. Instead, the MN Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board has set cut scores that the higher education institution must work towards having their teacher candidates meet as part of the PERCA program renewal process. The below cut scores have been established, all MN higher education institutions are expected to be at a 70% pass rate.
Task 1: Planning [students must achieve a cut score of 13 or higher]
Task 2: Instruction [students must achieve a cut score of a 13 or higher]
Task 3: Assessment [students must achieve a cut score of a 12 or higher]
edTPA Passing scores for World Lang and Culture:
Task 1: Planning [students must achieve a cut score of 10 or higher]
Task 2: Instruction [students must achieve a cut score of a 13 or higher]
Task 3: Assessment [students must achieve a cut score of a 9 or higher]
PELSB requirement is that ALL License programs must have an edTPA pass rate of 70%.
Data Analysis
MTLE (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
MN Teacher Licensure Exam pass rates for content and pedagogy exams aligned with each licensure area.
Data Analysis
Dispositions (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
Department of Education Unit Disposition Evaluation (Common Unit Level)
- Dispositions-Unit (starting 2018-2019 academic year)
Unit Level Additional Data Measures (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
Data Analysis (Restricted to Program Faculty)
- Alumni Survey (1 year after graduation)-Unit and by major
- Employer Survey (1 year after graduation)-Unit and by major
- Graduate Exit Survey (final semester at UMD)-Unit and by major
Data Analysis for On-Going Program Review (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
Data Analysis (Restricted to Program Faculty)
UMD Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Each program at UMD is required to have a Program Assessment Liaison (PAL) who is responsible for reviewing data and compiling a report to be entered into the Compliance Assist Assessment Program that aligns with the student learning outcome data reporting cycle. The Annual Program Assessment Report, completed in the fall, includes program development recommendations for the program student learning outcome (SLO) assessed. The recommendations are based on the program faculty/staff interpretations of the assessment results.
The Annual Program Assessment Report for AY 2019-20 is due Monday, September 14, 2020 via the Campus Assessment Data form as an uploaded file.
SLO Resources
- SLO Assessment of Student Learning
- SLO Annual Program Reporting
- Annual Program Assessment Report Template: AY 2019-20
- SLO Access and submit the fall 2020 Campus Assessment Data Form here:
- View the PDF examples of Campus Assessment Data Forms for different program types:
Undergraduate Curricular Program Assessment Plan
Click the program links to determine with SEPs/SLOs should be included in the Annual Program Assessment Report:
SLO Reports (Access Restricted to Program Faculty)
- Integrated Elementary & Special Education
- Secondary Teacher Education Program
- Unified Early Childhood Studies