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Key measures of student learning include the following. 
  • Selective admissions scores, including portfolio reviews, to the professional degree programs of architecture, graphic design, interior design and landscape architecture, which occur annually;
  • Formative and summative course evaluations, which occur each semester;
  • Faculty notes and logs from in-studio reviews of student work, which occur in the daily and weekly contact between students and faculty in a critical teaching feedback pedagogy;
  • Student and faculty notes or journals from public reviews of student work, which occur 2-4 times per semester for most studios;
  • External reviewers' notes and comments from external exhibitions, competitions and grants, which occur irregularly;
  • Faculty notes from collective faculty end-of-semester reviews, which occur annually or semi-annually;
  • Faculty notes, comments and grades for senior or diploma projects, which occur annually;
  • Minutes from faculty assessment, program and curriculum committee meetings, which occur at least monthly;
  • Minutes and comments from departmental professional advisory board meetings, which occur at least annually;
  • Employee reports from internships and practicums, which occur each semester;
  • Records of student awards and scholarship recipients, which occur annually;
  • Placement and salary data for graduates from Career Placement Survey, which occurs annually;
  • Public reports from accreditation reviews, which occur every 3-6 years in the professional degree programs;
  • Pass rates on licensing examinations of graduates of professional programs, which occur perpetually.
 
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