Welcome to the Assessment Office of the Graduate College of Education (GCOE). This office supports the routine collection and use of data for the continuous improvement of student learning and program effectiveness.
The GCOE is actively engaged in building a culture of data use. We encourage all members of the education unit to be familiar with the available data and to use it for making change through improvement cycles.
This site also supports the GCOE in meeting CTC’s Common Standard 4:
The education unit develops and implements a comprehensive continuous improvement process at both the unit level and within each of its programs that identifies program and unit effectiveness and makes appropriate modifications based on findings.
- The education unit and its programs regularly assess their effectiveness in relation to the course of study offered, fieldwork and clinical practice, and support services for candidates.
- Both the unit and its programs regularly and systematically collect, analyze, and use candidate and program completer data as well as data reflecting the effectiveness of unit operations to improve programs and their services.
- The continuous improvement process includes multiple sources of data including 1) the extent to which candidates are prepared to enter professional practice; and 2) feedback from key stakeholders such as employers and community partners about the quality of the preparation.
Contact: Carlos Julio, Accreditation and Assessment Office
GCOE Accreditation Website
Preparing educators for public school service is among the most important work of the Graduate College of Education at San Francisco State University. SF State credential programs are accredited by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), the agency that is responsible to the citizens of the California for assuring that educator preparation programs such as ours meet standards for quality and effectiveness.
GCOE Accreditation Website
GCOE Data Kitchen
The Data Kitchen is a repository that is easy to navigate and that holds all the information available for the college, just as a kitchen holds all the ingredients for cooking great meals. It also facilitates program assessment, including models and tools for analyzing and interpreting data that support improvement cycles. The Data Kitchen does not have one chef; instead, many are invited into the kitchen to prepare what they want. It is a place for active engagement and creative inquiry where all participants are encouraged to use everything that is visible and familiar to them and where different systems or techniques will be unified as a result of collaboration. The GCOE Assessment and Accreditation office provides support for all kitchen activities.
GCOE Data Kitchen
Speech-Language Pathology Accreditation
The Accreditation website for the Master of Science (M.S.) education program in Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences (residential) at San Francisco State University. This website has been designed to meet the requirements of accreditation in Speech-Language Pathology, which is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), 2200 Research Boulevard #310, Rockville, Maryland 20850, (800) 498-2071 or (301) 296-5700.
Speech-Language Pathology Accreditation