25-28 June 2024 // Costa Mesa, California

ACPA’s Student Affairs Assessment Institute, sponsored by the Commission for Assessment and Evaluation, provides a guided, curricular experience where participants can develop essential assessment knowledge and skills for their professional toolkit. It offers a balance of instruction and hands-on experience designed to ensure attendees leave with the assessment skills and knowledge necessary to develop and execute quality assessment plans on their campuses.

Whether you are brand new to assessment, taking on new responsibilities in your individual unit, or charged with developing a division-wide plan for assessment, the ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute is the answer for your professional development needs! The Institute is focused on providing developmental assessment knowledge and may not be the best professional development opportunity for more advanced practitioners. If you are unsure whether or not the Institute may be right for you or have general questions, please contact [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist!

institute tracks & features

Assessment Institute attendees can select their track when they register for the Institute, making the experience educationally catered to each registrant’s professional journey. Tracks help guide attendees’ session selections at the Institute based on their focus area or role with assessment.

• Foundations Track  – Sessions will be focused on building foundational assessment knowledge and skills for individuals with limited training or experience with assessment. If you’re new to assessment, regardless of your position, this is where to start. Topics include: assessment cycle, basic terminology, data ethics, writing learning and program outcomes, basic quantitative and qualitative methods, and reporting results.
• Practitioners Track – Sessions will be focused on expanding assessment knowledge and skills for individuals tasked with championing assessment for one or more departments. If you’ve done some assessment but want to improve your ability to meet the assessment element of your job description, this is for you. Topics include: more advanced quantitative and qualitative methods, survey design, interviews & focus groups, data cleaning and analysis, and data visualization.
• Administrator Track – Sessions will be focused on supplementing assessment knowledge and skills for leaders of a department, division, college, or university. If you’ve done some assessment but want to build your application of assessment as a unit leader, this is for you. Topics include: strategic planning, prioritization, alignment with campus partners, storytelling, and using results.

Hotel Information

The host hotel for the 2024 Student Affairs Assessment Institute is The Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, offering a nightly rate of $195.

686 Anton Boulevard | Costa Mesa, CA 92626

tentative Schedule

*all times are listed in Pacific Time

Day 1

Wednesday, 26 June

Day 2

Thursday, 27 June

Day 3

Friday, 28 June