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QEP Development :

Step 1: Select a topic

Step 2: Define the student learning outcomes

Step 3: Research the topic

Step 4: Identify the actions

Step 5: Establish the timeline

Step 6: Organize

Step 7: Identify resources

Step 8: Evaluate success

Step 9: Prepare for submission

Step 10: Prepare the Impact Report

  
     

 

  
     
 

Example QEP Topics

Acceptable topics that have been approved by SACS in the past include curricular, pedagogical, faculty, and student services initiatives. Some examples:

  • Course redesign for large classes
  • Critical thinking across the curriculum
  • Enhancing the first year experience
  • Enhancing student engagement
  • Information fluency
  • Strengthening global competence
  • Capstone seminars
  • Campus conversation on ethics
  • Ecology and community involvement
  • Enhancing undergraduate scholarly inquiry
  • Educating student leaders to make a difference

What will peer reviewers be looking for?

The criteria that SACS peer reviewers will be looking for when they visit our campus are:

  1. A clear focus on key issues related to student learning;
  2. Demonstrated institutional capacity to achieve our goals and succeed;
  3. A well-designed assessment plan;
  4. Evidence of broad-based involvement in the topic selection (emerging from institutional assessment, development, and implementation of the QEP).