It's time to ask smarter questions
The Ascend™ Normative Question Set is a compilation of the most popular and reliable questions of our 70+ clients. With the Ascend™ Question Set, we will provide you with normative and comparative data, so you can compare your school against other schools using the Ascend™ Question Set.
Highlights of this standardized course evaluation tool:
- The Ascend™ Survey has 40 questions. Pick and choose as many or as few as you want.
- It will allow you to compare scores from instructors and classes at other schools.
- It will ask and post online required questions to comply with your state laws.
- It will ask 30 questions from the student yet yield 40 points of relevant data.
- It will allow instructors and/or departments to eliminate or add some survey items because all classes are not the same yet still provide normative data.
- It will allow schools to add questions that they are currently using to increase instructor buy-in.
- It will optionally evaluate the student’s tendency toward rating instructors. For example, it will calculate whether the student grades harshly or easily.
- It will optionally coach the students about their rating tendencies so that they can improve their critical thinking skills and give better feedback.
- It will give the instructors concrete information to pull up their scores if they score low.
- Reports automatically determine and highlight the instructor’s re-occurring strengths and weaknesses, saving instructors and deans analysis time.
- It will email the instructor which two scores they should focus on for the upcoming semester.
- It will address the 30 most common assessment factors that schools typically ask.
The beauty of Ascend™ is that it integrates into many other aspects of the SmartEvals application:
- Student grading tendencies
- Follow up Question Technology™
- Elective Question Technology™
- MyFocus™
- OCE generated Q’s & A’s
This is a fantastic asset for accreditation and even for tenure – having the ability to compare your scores to other schools. Contact our sales team to learn more!