Our Mission
Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas is a two-year college serving the people of Eastern Arkansas. Through robust partnerships, the College is committed to building stronger communities by delivering quality, affordable education for college transfer and work skills training. We provide multiple services and support to ensure student access with success and encourage the pursuit of knowledge and life-long learning striving to build a foundation for a better life for all.
What is Assessment?
Assessment is the ongoing process of establishing clear, measurable, expected outcomes of student learning; systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and using the resulting information to understand and improve student learning throughout the College.
Assessment promotes quality across the institution by providing evidence to guide effective decision-making regarding institutional changes, programmatic changes, and classroom teaching modifications.
Three key purposes of assessment:
- To Inform - Assessment activities show a clearer picture of what is really happening in a program and inform others of program contributions.
- To Improve - This evaluation is formative. Assessment activities provide a feedback loop to help shape or form better programs and services.
- To Prove - This evaluation is summative. Assessment activities provide evidence to sum up what a program is accomplishing and provide persuasive indicators to students, faculty, staff, and the community.