Among the accreditation standards, AACSB evaluates the efforts made by schools to ensure the success of their learners through degree programs and other learning experiences.
The Assurance of Learning (AoL) approach is thus valued, since it includes all the measures deployed by the school to ensure that its programs transmit knowledge and skills to students, and prepare them for lasting professional success.
AACSB asks the school to produce a Table 5.1 showing well-documented AOL processes, including direct and indirect measures, to ensure the quality of all degree programs, considered to be within the scope of accreditation.
The results of the school’s AOL work should enable continuous improvement of programs and processes.
A 5.1 report, entitled Assessment Plan and Results for Most Recently Completed Accreditation Cycle by Degree Program, is therefore mandatory for AACSB accreditation.
This report can be completed and downloaded via the AOL module on ACADEM.
Its format is directly inspired by the model proposed by the AACSB in July 2020:
ℹ️ The AOL 5.1 report is available to users who have subscribed to the AOL module on ACADEM.
Contact us to find out how to activate this module in your subscription.
Complete the 5.1 AOL report
⚠️To complete the report, you need to have previously configured these elements in the AOL module: Programs, Courses, Learning Goals, Learning Objectives and Evaluation Criteria.
From the menu Data > Institution > Programs : select a program in the list > Edit
Select the Evalutation History tab > use the filters to select the Learning Goals and Learning Objectives to be displayed in the report
Filters :
- Select a School year.
The previous school year is automatically entered below, as the year of comparison. This data can be modified from the drop-down list. - Click on the Learning Goal box to select one or more LGs to display.
- Click on the Learning Objective box to select one or more LOs for display.
- Select the relevant Campus from the drop-down list.
Click on the Apply filtering button.
Student performance is displayed by learning objective and by criteria, for the selected years: you see the percentage of students below expectations, at expectations and above expectations, for each learning objective.
Click on the blue Comment button to the right of the LO or LG lines to complete the direct or indirect measures that will appear in the 5.1 report.
ℹ️The comments included in the AACSB 5.1 Report concern only direct and indirect measures, for Learning Goals and Learning Objectives.
Comments on the General tab for LOs and comments on criteria appear in the other AOL reports: Evaluation history, Mapping LG/Course and Mapping LG/Course/Evaluation.
Direct and indirect measures entered in the comments will be displayed in the downloaded 5.1 report.
Performance target: what percentage of students must achieve this competency in the selected year?
How assessed: how is student performance assessed? Ex: oral presentation, dissertation, standard test …
Where assessed: in which module/course is the skill assessed?
Ex: module number, online supervision, internship …
When assessed: when did the assessment take place?
Ex : annually in final year, first semester, …
Results: Actual percentage of students who validate the competency for the selected year.
Curricular Improvments (Date changes were made): what changes were made to improve the result, and when?
ℹ️AACSB recognizes two types of indirect measures: those linked to the assessment of specific competency objectives within a degree program, and those that are more general and not linked to competency objectives.
However, only measures linked to the assessment of competency objectives are relevant to characterize an improvement.
Export AOL – AACSB 5.1 report
ℹ️The 5.1 report can be exported by users with an AOL_REF role in Tracking One.
From menu Reports > AOL Reports : select the AACSB 5.1 report.
- Select an School Year and one or more Programs to be included in the report.
- A list of Learning Goals is displayed depending on the program.s and school year selected.
Select the competencies to be included in the report. - An option allows you to display Learning Objectives with the Learning Goals in the Competency column.
Once the parameters have been selected, the report can be sent to the user’s Inbox, or downloaded directly in pdf format.
