Our Mission
The Mission of PCCUA emphasizes a commitment to helping every student succeed. The College provides high-quality, accessible educational opportunities and skills development to promote life-long learning and engages in the lives of our students and our communities.
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.