The CAIIE requests that colleges seeking CAIIE certification for AI programs submit complete documentation for assessing whether the instructional plan and curriculum are sufficient to meet the industry's requirements for students' knowledge and skills for the purpose of employment.

The learning goal should be reproduceable, and it should be realistic for this assessment to be carried out each time the program is offered.

  1. Goal

In this space, identify the Core goal you expect students to achieve during the course. (Please submit one plan per course per goal assessed.)

  1. Assignment/Prompt Used to Assess Student Achievement

In this space, briefly identify the assignment or other student work you will use to assess student achievement of the Core learning goal.

If you will use an embedded assignment like an exam question or paper topic, identify when the assignment occurs during the semester (typically this will be at or near the end of the semester, when students have had the chance to benefit fully from the course) and how much weight it has in the course grade.

If you will use another method of assessment (e.g., pre–post tests or portfolios of student work), briefly explain the structure and timing of the assessment.

Indicate who will be assessing student work. If more than one person will be doing so, indicate how many raters will review each student’s work.

Indicate whether you will assess all students’ achievement of the learning goal or a random sampling of students. In general, the CAIIE recommends sampling only in courses of more than 100 students.

Please provide an example of the prompt, exam question, or other assignment you will use.

  1. Evaluation Criteria

In this space, include the benchmarks, rubrics, or other standards you will use to evaluate student achievement of the learning goal.

  • If you will use the CAIIE-prepared rubrics, simply indicate that fact here.
  • If you will customize the CAIIE rubrics to be more specific to your discipline, course, or assignment, include the customized rubrics here.
  • If you will use your own benchmarks or rubrics, include those here.
  1. Plans to Use Assessment Results

In this space, use a few sentences to explain how your department anticipates using the information about student accomplishment that this assessment will provide. E.g., will individual instructors review these results to inform their future teaching? Will the department review these results when planning curricular revisions? Does the department use positive assessment results to identify and share pedagogical best practices, or as a component in program reviews?