Supporting Program Accreditation with Davis Advantage

Curriculum Analytics Davis Advantage Curriculum Analytics is an institutional level tool offering Deans, Directors, and Educators insights into aggregate programmatic data. This easy-to-interpret information allows programs who are using multiple Davis Advantage products to easily track student performance across the curriculum and identify trends over time. § Provides a high-level overview into each course-area product currently in use § Gives access to a deeper dive into a course’s class-level data to see average performance, progress, and usage

Allows for monitoring incoming and concurrent cohort progress

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Delivers a holistic view of individual student performance across all products and classes they are enrolled in

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§ Indicates performance warnings for students who may be at risk and performing below the class average

Ideas on how to use Davis Advantage for Accreditation § Perform longitudinal programmatic data collection using Davis Advantage analytics. This may include monitoring students’ achievements as they complete their Personalized Learning, Clinical Judgment, and Quizzing Assignments, cohorts’ performance improvement as they progress through their course work, or programmatic outcomes with Curriculum Analytics. Compare this data to your end-of-program student learning outcomes, or standardized test scores as the foundation for improving program outcomes.

§ Use Davis Advantage maps to demonstrate how your program addresses the criteria of the AACN Essentials , and the ACEN Criterion for Curriculum Concepts . Embed these into course syllabi. § Standardize grading criteria used in Davis Advantage throughout the nursing program. Place the policy in the student handbook and each course syllabus. § Perform both a student and faculty survey of the Davis Advantage products and incorporate the results in your self- study report. Repeat the survey annually to show ongoing monitoring of student resource satisfaction. § Build a faculty policy on the frequency and type of formative feedback to be delivered to students on their Davis Advantage outcomes. Place examples of this feedback in your self-study report. § Develop criteria for the use of Personalized Teaching Plans and detail how the Plans are to be used to support identified areas of cohort weaknesses. Writing a Self-Study Writing an accreditation self-study report is a daunting task for any program. Davis Advantage is designed to make that process easier. Consider these specific standards from each of the agencies. Davis Advantage’s tools support these standards and will provide clarity when providing the details needed for accreditation success.

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