281—81.6(256) Assessment system and institution evaluation standard. The institution’s assessment system will appropriately monitor individual candidate performance and use the performance data in concert with other information to evaluate and improve the institution and its programs.
	81.6(1) Program assessment system.
	a. 	The program utilizes a clearly defined management system for the collection, analysis, and use of assessment data.
	b. 	The institution clearly documents candidates’ attainment of the program standards.
	c. 	The institution demonstrates the propriety, utility, accuracy and fairness of both the overall assessment system and the instruments used and provides scoring rubrics or other criteria used in evaluation instruments.
	d. 	The institution documents the quality of programs through the collective presentation of assessment data related to performance of school business official candidates. Documentation will include the following:
	(1)	Data collected throughout the program, including data from all delivery models;
	(2)	Evidence of evaluative data collected on a biennial basis from school business officials who work with the program’s candidates; and
	(3)	Evidence of evaluative data collected on a biennial basis by the institution through follow-up studies of graduates and their employers.
	e. 	The institution explains the process for reviewing and revising the assessment system.
	f. 	The institution demonstrates how the information gathered by the institution and from the performance assessment system for candidates is shared with instructors and other stakeholders and used for program improvement.
	81.6(2) Performance assessment system for candidates.
	a. 	The performance assessment system for candidates is an integral part of the institution’s planning and evaluation system.
	b. 	The performance assessment system for candidates includes a coherent, sequential assessment system for individual school business official candidates. The assessment system is shared with instructors to provide guidance for course and program improvement. The assessment system also provides ongoing feedback to school business official candidates about their achievement of program standards and guidance for reflection and improvement. Data are drawn from multiple formative and summative assessments of institutional evaluation of the candidates’ content knowledge and professional knowledge and from application of this knowledge to the necessary skills and attributes appropriate for a novice school business official.
	c. 	School business official candidate performance is assessed at the same standard regardless of the place or way the program is delivered.
	81.6(3) Survey of graduates. The department periodically conducts a survey of schools, agencies, or facilities that employ licensed graduates of approved programs to ensure that the graduates’ needs are adequately met by their programs and by the approval process herein.
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