Abstract
Google's Dataset Publishing Language (DPSL) and Google's Public Data Explorer (GPDE) offer Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) powerful ways to analyze campus-wide assessments of learning outcomes that were formerly unavailable to staff, assessment coordinators, institutional researchers, and other stake holders. Current practices in institutional assessment are severely limited, but DPSL and GPDE offer us a leap forward in institutional assessment. Presently, meaning is lost when the results of direct and indirect assessments of student learning outcomes are aggregated from program-level measures and presented as institution-wide results. For example, numerical results from analytic rubrics of performance assessments or signature assignments and survey responses from program completers and employers are most meaningful and useful at the program level; however, the impact of these measures can dissipate quickly as results are scaled upward toward the department, unit, college, or university levels. A better approach exists now. Using DPSL and the Google's Public Data Explorer, we demonstrate a fully-scalable and animated dashboard of student learning outcome results that not only retains meaning at all levels of the institution, but also affords us with new opportunities for data analysis and data-informed decision making. These animated dashboards provide us with a novel approach to presenting and analyzing direct and indirect assessment results of student learning outcomes.