Early Assessment

Used to be that mid-term grades helped students see how they were really doing in college. Then in the recent past, retention studies indicated that First Year Students needed earlier feedback on how they were doing. Thus Early Assessment grades. Before Fall Break students would get an evaluation of how they were doing, so that they could make corrections before it was too late.

So now is the time for an early assessment of how our ministries are doing this year.

It's one of the aphorisms of collegiate ministry that you will never have more students at a regular college ministry function than you will at the beginning of the semester. But there are some students who came and have stopped coming. Why? Who has checked up on them?

Which programs worked and why? Which ones didn't and why?

Which student leaders have risen to the challenge of their ministry? Now is the time to affirm them.

Which student leaders haven't yet stepped up? Now is the time to check in with them and do a little mentoring.

Which governing board / oversight committee members don't yet have the big picture of what they are supposed to be doing?