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These dates are designed to meet both the schedules of academic departments and staff departments and so some goal dates may not meet those of your area. If there are outcomes in your Effectiveness Plan that are not yet complete and do not yet have data, please omit the goal date set above for those outcomes.

Each year, Florida SouthWestern State College's Office of Accountability & Effectiveness aids administrative units and academic programs in the development and tracking of their respective "Effectiveness Plans." Creating a formal "Effectiveness Plan" is an important step in consistently documenting the continuous improvement efforts educational leaders engage at Â鶹ŮÀÉ. Institutional Effectiveness (IE) is the extent to which planned outcomes, goals, or objectives are achieved as a result of an activity, strategy, intervention or initiative intended to achieve the desired effect. Thus, a useful Effectiveness Plan is one that contains clearly written outcomes, strategies for meeting those outcomes and has appropriate assessment techniques for measuring how well those outcomes have been achieved. Finally, to "close the loop" on the institutional effectiveness cycle, each Effectiveness Plan should use results in a meaningful, impactful way.

Tools to aide in completing annual Effectiveness Plans in Anthology:

About Anthology

Anthology is a web-based software system from Campus Labs designed to assist in housing Effectiveness Plans and Reports for continuous improvement. Anthology allows planning and assessment reports to join each other seamlessly for a smooth Effectiveness Cycle. Users can generate their own reports and edit information with ease. Anthology is licensed by Florida SouthWestern State College (Â鶹ŮÀÉ) for use by Florida SouthWestern State College faculty and staff for retaining, reporting, and presenting the effectiveness of academic and administrative units at Florida SouthWestern State College.

How do I login to Anthology?

Faculty and staff who need access to Anthology must first contact the Office of Accountability & Effectiveness to request an account. Once access has been approved, Anthology may be accessed through the user's Florida SouthWestern State Colleges (Â鶹ŮÀÉ) MyÂ鶹ŮÀÉ account. In MyÂ鶹ŮÀÉ, faculty and staff must locate the "Institutional Effectiveness" tile and click the link for "Anthology – Effectiveness Plans".

Effectiveness Plans Components

In order to engage in a cycle of continuous improvement, all academic programs at Â鶹ŮÀÉ set goals, collect data, and use the results to inform course and program improvement.

Assessment and Effectiveness Components:

Program/Unit Mission

• All Programs/Departments must have a Mission Statement entered.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Primarily used by academic programs/departments.
• Assesses student effort/knowledge in the classroom.

Operational Outcomes

• Primarily used by non-academic units of the college.
• Can be used by academic programs/departments for outcomes not involving student effort.

Program Review Components:

Enrollment

• Headcount and FTE by program (Primary)
• Demographic information by program (FT/PT, M/F, ethnicity, financial aid status, Pell Grant recipients, entering GPA)

Completion

• Degrees/certificates conferred
• Degrees conferred per 100 FTE
• Average time to degree/certificate completion (For students who entered without transfer credit)
• First-time full-time freshmen 3-year graduation rate (AA only)

Progression

• Retention (Fall to Fall, retention or completer)
• Service to other programs in the institution (AA or AS completers into Bachelor’s programs. Certificate completers into AA or AS programs.)

Course Data

• Average Course Section Size

Success

• (Fall to Fall, retained with 2.5 GPA or higher, transferred with 2.5 or higher, graduated) (AA an AS only using State Accountability Data)
• Licensure and certification exam pass rates (AS and BS only)

Satisfaction

• Program surveys
• SOS comparisons across modalities
• Graduate follow-up results (employment rates and employer survey results where applicable, graduate surveys)

Resources and Training

The Office of Accountability & Effectiveness offers a booklet about Effectiveness Plans Best Practices and provides individual or group trainings by request.

Questions and requests for additional information should be directed to Jessica Godwin.