Assessment of Educational Programs

Tarrant County College (TCC) is committed to educational excellence and preparing its students to achieve in the twenty-first century. To that end the college has embarked on an extensive process of educational assessment to improve teaching and learning and to provide documentation of these efforts. The assessment process can be considered a "loop" that begins with identifying measurable learning outcomes on the course, program, and institutional levels, which leads to assessing these outcomes and making plans for improvement based on the results of the assessment.

Consequently, the College is always in a stage of continuous improvement of educational services provided to its primary stakeholders, the students. PARR which stands for Plan-Assess-Reassess-Re plan, is the acronym given to the District's initiatives to assess course, program, and institutional learning outcomes.

"Assessment is considered as the systematic collection and analysis of information to improve student lifelong learning." -University of Southern California

"While accreditation and accountability matter, student learning still matters most." -Dr. Thomas Angelo, professor of higher education and director of the University Teaching Development Centre (UTDC) at Victoria University of Wellington, New England