Global Security and Intelligence Studies Volume 4, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2019 | Page 31

Global Security and Intelligence Studies
While it should not be “the tail that wags the dog,” assessment of SLOs is
an area of substantial importance that is likely to grow over time. While there is
a substantial degree of agreement among intelligence studies programs at both
the undergraduate and graduate levels on what are the objectives of the program,
there is a wide variety of assessment tools that can be incorporated to measure
their effectiveness. Overall, most of the programs attempted to address the area of
program assessment with a mixture of tools that focus on direct, qualitative measures.
It appears that there is little variation between undergraduate and graduate
curriculums on assessment, but overall, there are no perfect correlations in this
regard. As the field continues to grow, the ability to share experiences between
programs may be helpful in developing best practices. With regard to assessment,
this study hopes it has made some progress in that effort.
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