The Ascend™ Normative Question Set is a compilation of the most popular and reliable questions of our 70+ clients. With the Ascend™ Question Set, we will provide you with normative and comparative data, so you can compare your school against other schools using the Ascend™ Question Set.

Highlights of this standardized course evaluation tool:

1. The Ascend™ Survey has 40 questions. Pick and choose as many or as few as you want.
2. It will allow you to compare scores from instructors and classes at other schools.
3. It will ask and post online required questions to comply with your state laws.
4. It will ask 30 questions from the student yet yield 40 points of relevant data.
5. It will allow instructors and/or departments to eliminate or add some survey items because all classes are not the same yet still provide normative data.
6. It will allow schools to add questions that they are currently using to increase instructor buy-in.
7. It will optionally evaluate the student?s tendency toward rating instructors. For example, it will calculate whether the student grades harshly or easily.
8. It will optionally coach the student about their rating tendencies so that they can improve their critical thinking skills and give better feedback.
9. It will give the instructor concrete information to pull up their scores if they score low.
10. Reports automatically determine and highlight the instructor?s re-occurring strengths and weaknesses, saving instructors and deans analysis time.
11. It will email the instructor which two scores they should focus on for the upcoming semester.
12. It will address the 30 most common assessment factors that schools typically ask.

The beauty of Ascend™ is that it integrates many other aspects of the Online Course Evaluation's application:

• Student grading tendencies
• Follow up Question Technology™
• Elective Question Technology™
• MyFocus™
• OCE generated Q?s & A?s

This is a fantastic asset for accreditation and even for tenure ? having the ability to compare your scores to other schools. Contact our sales team to learn more!