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ºÚÁÏÍø has long promoted data literacy and the use of data to provide context to narratives for program review and assessment. As part of the program-review process, the CSU requires specific data around student achievement to be reported and analyzed. To support our office and programs as they write their self-studies, Institutional Research and Analytics (IR&A) provides data tables specifically designed for program review. IR&A has also led the charge with the long-running Data Fellows program designed to build a community of practice and shared ownership of data to campus. The CSU Chancellor's Office has a complementary certificate program in as well as its public-facing data .

ºÚÁÏÍø's program review data integration is over twenty years old. In keeping with a future-oriented focus on data collection and maintenance of institutional memory, it sought an assessment management system to facilitate this process.

To that end, ºÚÁÏÍø's Office of Program and Institutional Effectiveness (OPIE) implemented technology to unite institutional data with assessment and review processes. is an Assessment Management System (AMS) adopted by ºÚÁÏÍø in 2022. As an AMS, Nuventive serves as a repository for assessment reports, program review self-studies, alignment of outcomes, and feedback for all degree programs, academic support programs, initiatives, and division reports.

As a repository, Nuventive facilitates the input, analysis, and longitudinal storage of institutional data, including, but not limited to:

• Program-Review documents and Tableau data;
• Institutional and Strategic Planning assessment;
• Class, Program, and GE assessment data, analysis, reporting, and feedback.

To help academic programs, academic-support units, and administrative units maintain records and craft data-driven narratives, OPIE has provided support within the platform. In Nuventive, you can find:

• Assessment step-by-step user manuals for degree programs and academic-support and administrative units;
• Self-study step-by-step user manuals for degree programs and academic-support units;
  • within the self-study templates, resources including Tableau tables relevant for each component of the self-study and accompanying resource pages explaining how data might be analyzed to explore specific sections of the self-study.

All of these elements, stored in Nuventive next to the self-study narrative, provide examples as to how to get into institutional data relevant to the department, how to explore what the data means, and how to use it to tell meaningful stories about the department’s progress.  In so doing, OPIE's use of Nuventive, built from years of work on campus, promotes the ability to use data in an informed and meaningful way, providing end users not familiar with the multiple uses of data, to choose how to construct their narratives. The screenshot below shows section 4 of ºÚÁÏÍø's self-study template with accompanying resources: the image link to the data table available at IR&A, the data interpretation / analysis guide, and instructions for successfully inserting the chart into the template:

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