Starting spring break 2025, all students participating in a departmental program will be expected to complete both a pre and post assessment. Further information may be found to the Study Abroad Assessment Initiative page.
Below are frequently asked questions regarding the assessment. Please contact the study abroad office if you have further questions that are not included below.
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All program students must complete the pre/post BEVI or the alternative essay, however, we also encourage program leaders to incorporate additional assessment tools as program needs may require assessment of categories not measured by the BEVI.
Program leaders should add the expectation to take the pre and post assessments into their program syllabus. Pre-program assessment will be available to students at least one month prior to the program start date. Students may access the pre-program assessment via their Accepted Student - My Study Abroad page which contains the following BEVI instructions. Post-program assessments will be available via their Return Student - My Study Abroad page after the end date of the program. Program leaders are encouraged to provide specific due dates for pre and post assessments.
Program leaders are responsible for ensuring students take the pre and post assessment by adding the requirements to their syllabus and tracking the completion via their Program Leader Portal. Program leaders are encouraged to schedule a specific time and place for students to complete pre and post assessments. For example, at the end of pre-departure meetings, or during travel time at the end of the program. Another way to increase response rates is to assign completion points for both assessments in the gradebook. This should reduce the amount of follow-up or delinquent submissions.
Students will be provided with individual assessment reports as well as confirmation of completion. Students are required to upload this confirmation to their My Study Abroad page for completion tracking by program leaders.
CILMAR will collect the assessment data and provide the aggregate data to program leaders two weeks prior to program start date (or after all students have completed the assessment). The post assessment data will be available within two months of program completion.
Program leaders that would like to review the BEVI questions will need to request access to take the BEVI. Email requests may be sent to cilmar@purdue.edu.
Students that choose not to take the BEVI, may take the alternate assessment:
Post-program BEVI submissions from a recent program may in some cases be used as the pre-program assessment for an upcoming program. The post-program BEVI must be less than 6 months old to be valid. Students, along with their program leader, must submit a formal request for this exception to CILMAR (cilmar@purdue.edu) one month prior to the program departure date. If approved, students will be able to upload the post-program completion document from the previous program to their pre-program assessment submission on their Accepted Student – My Study Abroad page.
Students will be required to complete a post program assessment for each program they are associated with.
No, CILMAR has secured an institutional license for all of Purdue University. There is no individual per-assessment cost.
Yes.
Assessment is an integral part of program design, both in measuring efficacy of the curriculum and in providing insight into what is working, what is not, and where improvements can be made. The BEVI was chosen because of its high validity and reliability, the broad scope of its measurements, and its past success in being paired with the Global Engaged Learning (GEL) Index at other institutions to enhance programs engaged in global learning and internationalization.
The BEVI and GEL will be used by Purdue University as a standardized measure to assess the efficacy of all Departmental study abroad programs. Meta-Analysis Reports will be provided to each college detailing the impact of each program within their units each year. Additionally, an institution-wide report will be provided to the Vice President of Global Partnerships and Programs.