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Assessment of student leaning outcomes (SLOs) is essential to build a continuous quality improvement system in the outcome-based educational system. It typically focuses on providing evidence that students can demonstrate knowledge or skill directly linked to specific SLOs. However, reliability and validity of the assessment process is an issue of significant difficulty. In practice, the difficulty is excited by the bias and validity of one assessment method to another. In this research, practical guidelines to develop and implement a sustainable continuous quality improvement framework using a multi-method, direct assessment has been introduced. The proposed approach maximizes validity and reduce bias in the assessment of SLOs. This approach consists of two main processes which are, a semester- based assessment of SLOs using the assessment of Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs), and a three-year assessment of SLOs using the assessment of Performance Indicators (PIs), a set of PIs describes SLO in more measurable and specific way. Moreover, the adaptability of the approach, which led this framework to be more valid and bias dilutive, have been investigated. At the same time it is proven to be very successful and best fit between program needs, satisfactory, validity, and affordability assessment of SLOs. Finally, the proposed framework has been adopted and implemented by an academic program and showed very impressive results in program assessment process.
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