California State University, Dominguez Hills WASC Reaffirmation of Accreditation
WASC Documents

Introduction

The Educational Effectiveness Report report summarizes the ongoing work of the continuous assessment self-study process at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). This document contains the details about what the campus has learned from the research conducted, as well as questions that have arisen as the process evolved. It is, therefore, a snapshot of what the campus has learned about itself at the time when this Educational Effectiveness Report (EER) was written.

The document is available in hard copy and can be downloaded as a PDF file from the CSUDH WASC website. Individuals are encouraged to read the document on-line in order to access the many links that support the narrative and to gain the greatest understanding of the work of the University learning community. With the shared understanding that they represent an ongoing continuous improvement process, the following narrative essays describe what the campus community has learned related to the issues under study and others that have arisen as the self-study unfolded.

During the EE phase of the self-study process the campus community continued to center its work on the four themes that were identified during the initial stages of the self-study. The Institutional Proposal provides a detailed explanation of how these themes were developed while the Capacity Preparatory Report (CPR) provides a preliminary progress report of the campus activities related to the self-study. The themes around which the comprehensive self-study is based are:

  • Academic Quality: Improving and enhancing student outcomes
  • Campus Change: Building sustainable structures and processes for educational effectiveness
  • Diversity: Facilitating meaningful interactions among members of our learning community
  • Civic Engagement: Integrating campus and community initiatives through the concept of communiversity

These themes captured campus interest and helped to sustain the engagement of the campus learning community in the self-study process (CFR 4.5). There is obvious overlap of topics between the four Core Issues identified; this initially was a concern, but the campus acknowledged that the scope of our studies all relate to improved student outcomes. As a result, discussions in the four essays convey connections among the themes. (Read more)