Assessment System
The Professional Education Unit (PEU) helps to implement and facilitate assessments to measure candidate performance and Unit operations. This page describes the data that are collected, and how they are used.
What is Assessed?
Candidate performance is assessed throughout the program – at admission, during the program, at program completion, and post-graduation. Assessments are aligned to accreditation standards, and institutional, programmatic, and course-based student learning outcomes. Assessments include course-based assignments, surveys, clinical experience evaluations, certification exams, and more. Assessments are most often designed and implemented by program faculty, with the assistance of the PEU. The concepts that are assessed primarily focus on the following areas: content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, professional knowledge and skills, reflective skills, professional dispositions, and impact on K-12 learning.
How is Data Used?
The PEU maintains a “Professional Education Unit Assessment Data Collection, Storage, Access, and Use Policy” that defines who has access to data and how those data may be used. For privacy and security purposes, data access is limited to as few as people as possible, while data may be aggregated and shared with wider groups for the purposes of program improvement and transparency. The full policy is available online here: PEU Data Use Policy. Data that are publicly available are on posted on the PEU web site here: PEU Assessment Data.
The PEU Assessment Committee is the primary driver for collecting, aggregating, and disseminating assessment data. Data that the Committee collects are analyzed during three Unit-wide assessment days held each year. The attendees make recommendations to improve our programs, and those recommendations are brought to the appropriate committees or stakeholders to be considered and possibly implemented.
Data are also analyzed holistically once every 5-7 years by program faculty to assess the overall effectiveness of PEU programs. Faculty complete a Program Review Report for each program area, which are reviewed by our accrediting body, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). SUNY Brockport was most recently re-accredited in 2023 by CAEP.