Improving Your Academic Experience
The Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Research serves A&M-Commerce in a variety of capacities to ensure student success and promote strategic planning and continuous data-driven improvement.
Our Vision
To empower the university community to use data and analytics to make evidence-based decisions through the continuous exercise of institutional assessment endeavors. We plan to do this by
- Establishing a culture of data use and curiosity
- Supporting a culture of continuous improvement
- Supporting students, faculty and staff as they “Educate, Discover and Achieve” through the use of data and analytics
Our Mission
To improve the quality of university services and academic programs by providing support to administrative and academic departments in a broad range of activities, including
- Planning and evaluation
- Accreditation
- Institutional research
- Survey design and analysis
- Professional development opportunities
- Submission of institutional data to
- The Texas A&M University System,
- the state of Texas (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board), and
- federal agencies
- Other special projects
Explore Our Offices
What We can help you with!
- Provide institutional data.
- Assist in efforts to assess student learning and support services.
- Guide the accreditation processes for colleges, programs and the university.
- Administer and analyze surveys for future action.
- Complete mandatory reporting to the A&M University System Office, the state and federal levels.
- Assist faculty and administrators with the curricular change and program approvals process.
IER Events
Institutional Effectiveness and Research Events
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Utilizing the Nuventive Improvement Platform – New Users & Refresher Training (Virtual)
April 26, 2023 – 11:00 am-12:00 noon
The university’s tool for managing annual assessment reporting is the Nuventive™ Improvement Platform. This training will cover basic navigation features of the assessment platform for new users. The training also serves as a refresher course of the basics for current users. Offered in a live, web-based facilitation via Zoom, the training is primarily for IE Authors responsible for their academic program or support unit report for the 2022-2023 Cycle, but can be beneficial to all users. Completion of this training is required for all new users via this virtual offering or the TrainTraq course to gain full user access to the platform. REGISTER HERE
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Completing Your Annual IE Report in Nuventive for the 22-23 IE Cycle
May 17, 2023 – 10:00-11:00 am (VIRTUAL)
May 18, 2023 – 10:00-11:00 am – BA 246 (In-Person)
May 22, 2023 – 2:00-3:00 pm – BA 246 (In-Person)
This training will provide a walk-through of the steps in the Nuventive™ Improvement Platform to enter information required for your annual IE report, including 22-23 results data and any updates of assessment plan information. The training is primarily for IE Authors responsible for their academic program or support unit report for the 2022-2023 Cycle, but can be beneficial to all users. (If virtual, offered in a live, web-based facilitation via Zoom.) REGISTER HERE
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Nuventive IE Report Come and Go Working Session
May 18, 2023 – 11:00 am-12:00 noon – BA 246 (In-Person)
May 22, 2023 – 3:00-4:00 pm – BA 246 (In-Person)
The Institutional Effectiveness Team is available in person (in a computer lab setting) to help you work on completion of your IE Assessment Reports for the 22-23 Cycle. Held in conjunction with Completing Your Annual IE Report in Nuventive trainings also held in-person. REGISTER HERE
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IE Reviewer Training – Nuventive Navigation and Review Completion
June 6, 2023 – 1:30-2:30 pm – BA 246 (In-Person)
June 20, 2023 – 2:00-3:00 pm (Virtual)
The University's tool for managing annual assessment reporting is the Nuventive™ Improvement Platform. The IE Representatives, Department Heads/Direct Supervisors, and Deans/Vice Presidents responsible for review and oversight of IE reports within their college or division have access to a variety of reports to help them monitor submission status and monitor review status following the May 31st due date of the annual assessment (IE) reports submitted by IE Authors. This interactive training will cover navigating the review/approval area, monitoring submission status and monitoring review status. (If virtual, offered in a live, web-based facilitation via Zoom.) REGISTER HERE
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IE Reviewer Training – Using the Assessment Rubric (Virtual)
June 9, 2023 – 11:00 am-12:00 noon
The University's tool for managing annual assessment reporting is the Nuventive™ Improvement Platform. Following the May 31st due date for the annual assessment (IE) reports submitted by IE Authors, these reports will be reviewed by IE Representatives and Department Heads/Direct Supervisors using the rubric tool within Nuventive. This course will train IE Reviewers how to use the rubric to evaluate the quality of an assessment report and will feature a discussion of the rubric items and applied examples. The training will be offered in a live, web-based facilitation via Zoom for IE Representatives and Department Heads/Direct Supervisors responsible for the IE reports review. REGISTER HERE
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Quality Day 2022 – Achieving with Pride!
The Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Research held Quality Day 2022 – Achieving With Pride! on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. See Quality Day Presentations below for resources from the event.
IE Series Presentations
- Presentation – Communicating Your Story with Institutional Effectiveness Processes
- Presentation – Program and Curriculum Mapping Presentation – 2018 Professional Development Day
- Presentation – Writing Student Learning Outcomes for Support Unit Assessment
- Presentation – Writing Student Learning Outcomes for Academic Program Assessment
- Presentation – Writing Goals for Support Unit Assessment
Quality Day Presentations
QUALITY DAY 2022ACHIEVING WITH PRIDE!
- Quality Day 2022 Agenda and Highlights
- Quality Day 2022 Keynote by Elizabeth Vogt on Accreditation: Quality Assurance through Peer Review
- Quality Day 2022 Strategic Plan Assessment Committee Panel Discussion
- Elizabeth Vogt: Avoiding Pitfalls with Sections 6 & 8 for Reaffirmation
- Dr. Eric Branscome: The Accessible Assessment Enigma
- Alison Soeder: Using Assessment Results for Improvement
QUALITY DAY 2020PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE, RESPONDING TO THE PRESENT
QUALITY DAY 2019ALIGN WITH PRIDE
- Quality Day 2019 Agenda and Highlights
- Quality Day 2019 Evaluations
- Anne Phifer and Dr. Jessica Pauszek: Finding Functional Feedback in Course Evaluation Data
- Dr Jennifer Dyer, Dr. Juan Araujo and Dr. Laura Isbell: Curriculum Mapping for Academic Programs
- Dr. Dan Su and Jeremy Anderson: TAMUC Alumni Survey Findings (2018-2019)
- Dr. Derald Harp and Dr. Megan Owen: Assessing Teamwork
- Jennifer Hudson: Designing an Assessment Plan You Can Live With and Learn From
- Mary Cheek: Goal Mapping for Support Units
QUALITY DAY 2018PEERS OF THE PRIDE RESOURCES
QUALITY DAY 2017PLANNING FOR THE PRIDE RESOURCES
- Quality Day 2017 Agenda and Highlights
- Quality Day 2017 Evaluations
- Dr. Ray Green and Dr. Dan Su: Why Aren’t They Coming Back Presentation (Presentation unavailable)
- Dr. Madeline Justice and Jeremy Gamez: Quality Assurance Presentation (Presentation unavailable)
- Dr. Madeline Justice and Jeremy Gamez: Quality Matters Handout (Presentation unavailable)
- Dr. Tabetha Adkins, Danielle Davis, Kristen Neeley: Program and Curriculum Mapping Presentation (Presentation unavailable)
- Dr. Tabetha Adkins, Danielle Davis, Kristen Neeley: Curriculum Mapping Handout (Presentation unavailable)
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Contact Us
- Department of Institutional Effectiveness and Research
- 903.886.5937
- 903.468.3201
- [email protected]
- Journalism Building, 3rd Floor, Suite 350
- P.O. Box 3011
- Commerce, TX 75429-3011