Assessment & Accreditation Support
Assessment shouldn’t be a box to check—it should be a reflection of your values, your learning goals, and your community. At Chalk & Compass, we believe good assessment tells a story: not just about compliance, but about student growth, faculty innovation, and institutional purpose.
We partner with colleges, universities, and academic departments to build meaningful, sustainable assessment practices that do more than satisfy accrediting bodies—they drive improvement, foster engagement, and illuminate what matters most.
Whether you're reinvigorating a stagnant process or building a new culture of assessment, we offer practical tools, thoughtful facilitation, and long-term strategy to help you align intention with impact—and tell your institution’s story with clarity and purpose.
Learning Outcome Development
We help faculty and departments design clear, measurable, and mission-aligned learning outcomes at the course, program, and institutional level. Whether you're starting from scratch or reimagining what success looks like, we ensure your outcomes reflect the full depth of student learning.
Rubric and Tool Design
We create or refine rubrics, self-assessments, and evaluation tools that support consistency, transparency, and meaningful feedback. Our tools are tailored to your teaching practices and adaptable across disciplines.
Curriculum Mapping and Alignment
We guide you through mapping where and how learning outcomes are taught and assessed across programs. This process not only clarifies curricular coherence but highlights opportunities for growth, integration, and innovation.
Assessment Planning and Implementation
We work with faculty and leadership to design multi-year assessment plans that are manageable, mission-driven, and responsive to accreditation cycles. Our approach fosters faculty buy-in and avoids assessment fatigue.
Data Collection and Interpretation
We help you collect, visualize, and make sense of assessment data—quantitative and qualitative alike. We then facilitate workshops or reporting processes that turn data into insight, insight into reflection, and reflection into change.
Accreditation Readiness and Reporting
We support you in preparing self-studies, annual assessment reports, and site visit documentation that clearly communicate your strengths and commitments. We’re fluent in the language of regional and specialized accreditors and help you meet standards without losing your voice.
Our Niche in Art and Design Higher Education
As the only consulting firm with a dedicated team for art and design higher education projects, we understand that assessment in creative disciplines demands flexibility, nuance, and discipline-specific fluency. From portfolio reviews to critique-based evaluation and studio learning, we help translate artistic and interdisciplinary outcomes into meaningful, assessable frameworks—without sacrificing creativity or complexity.