Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
The SACSCOC reaffirmation of accreditation process includes the development of a five-year QEP.
What is a QEP?
A Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is an integral component of the SACSCOC reaffirmation of accreditation process. It reflects and affirms a commitment to enhance overall institutional quality and effectiveness by focusing on an issue that NC State considers important to improving student learning outcomes and/or student success
Per SACSCOC requirements, a QEP has:
- a topic identified through an institution’s ongoing comprehensive planning and evaluation processes;
- broad-based support of institutional constituencies; focuses on improving specific student learning outcomes and/or student success;
- commits resources to initiate, implement and complete the QEP; and
- includes a plan to assess achievement.
Visit the SACSCOC and Accreditation FAQ page for more information about the development of NC State’s QEP.
NC State’s 2024-2029 QEP
Packways: Learning by Doing was selected as the university’s 2024-2029 Quality Enhancement Plan topic and announced to the NC State community in March 2023. This QEP, which focuses on high-impact experiences, is part of a universitywide project focused on enhancing student learning and student success.
Packways: Learning by Doing
NC State’s 2014-2019 QEP
NC State’s previous QEP, TH!NK, was implemented from 2014-2019. TH!NK defined six specific student learning outcomes to improve students’ higher-order skills in critical and creative thinking and self-reflection. In Phase I of TH!NK, 15 faculty engaged in professional learning to enhance their pedagogical practices for building first-year students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Phase II scaled up the effective pedagogical practices as determined by multiple assessment measures, including pre- and post- semester critical thinking assessments, Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and Epistemological Beliefs Survey, pre- and post-semester use of a faculty-designed classroom activity scored against a common rubric, and a post-semester faculty self-assessment.
The Reflective Educational Design (RED) TH!NK certificate program through the Office for Faculty Excellence is the continued institutional integration of this effort.
History, Outcomes and Impacts
Learn more about the TH!NK QEP by visiting the Office for Faculty Excellence website to explore videos, faculty scholarship, a five-year impact report and other historical content.