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Watermark Planning & Self-Study for AACSB

Assessment and accreditation planning that meets you where you are

Watermark Planning & Self-Study supports assurance of learning and accreditation. Manage all assessment efforts, get results faster, engage in meaningful self-study, focus on improving student outcomes, and demonstrate assurance of learning for AACSB accreditation in a single, easy-to-use system that includes an AACSB self-study template.

Centralized assessment

Manage all of your assessment and accreditation planning efforts in a central location. Create annual plans and accreditation self-studies, assign roles, and foster collaboration in a structure that mirrors the natural hierarchies of your programs and reflects outcomes across multiple levels, making it easy for participants to navigate and see their efforts in context.

Assurance of learning

Create and capture a well-documented process for determining and revising degree program learning goals and demonstrate that degree program learning goals have been met within an easy-to-use system with intuitive workflows that guide faculty through related tasks.

Integrated measurement

Simplify the process of collecting and analyzing assessment data with flexible tools that make it easier to upload and share. Integrations with other Watermark tools and your LMS make it easy to add results for assessment measures, saving time for faculty and administrators, reducing reporting errors, and fostering better reflection to guide improvement.

“With Planning & Self-Study, we’ll be able to streamline our planning and answer essential questions about the success of our programs and courses. We can advance our current processes to get at the kind of data and reporting that will be beneficial in planning and improvement.”

Linda Townsend, PhD Director of Assessment Longwood University

Planning & Self-Study makes it easy to:

  • Link assessment efforts with related plans, strategic goals, budgets, and resources.
  • Get a full picture of outcome alignment with intelligent curriculum mapping.
  • Share assurance of learning evidence with accurate, replicable reporting.
  • Analyze outcomes alignment at the course and program level.
  • Track progress on assessment efforts through administrator dashboards.
  • Integrate assessment and self-study evidence into program reviews.
  • Create a self-study narrative in a template tailored to AACSB standards.
Take assessment & accreditation planning to the next level

Designed for your success

With Watermark Planning & Self-Study, you can enter measures, results, and findings in a variety of formats in a single place to see the full picture of your programs and support your AACSB self-study narrative.

A central, collaborative hub for preparing your reports for accreditation.

AACSB self-study

Create your self-study narrative in a template aligned to AACSB standards. Capture and align evidence and narratives to specific AACSB standard criteria using rich-text editing that supports graphics, tables, attachments, and more.

Curriculum mapping shows where learning outcomes are assessed.

Intelligent curriculum mapping

Automatically create curriculum maps by building your annual assessment plan. Plan updates are reflected in the map, so you can easily address gaps in curriculum and course delivery and evaluate impacts on program-level outcomes in real-time.

The insights you need to manage the assessment process and
drive meaningful improvement.

Powerful reporting

Get the insights you need with rollup and drilldown reporting on assessment results, including longitudinal reporting tied to institutional priorities. Annual reports present outcomes, measures, results, and actions in an aligned format and can be easily incorporated into your AACSB selfstudy report.

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