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The ACBSP, like other accrediting bodies, has placed a greater emphasis on assessment in recent years: particularly of assessment of student learning outcomes, but also of faculty and student satisfaction, professional development, faculty workload, etc. Given the increase in time and effort that must be dedicated to fulfilling the necessary requirements, are the results worth it?  Some expect assessment to automatically raise a program's standards or, at the least, find a program's faults, but this is not a reasonable belief without sufficient oversight of the assessment process's design and implementation. This paper examines several shortcomings in the assessment process as implemented in many schools, as well as focusing on some better practices that can raise the level of expected results.

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