HLC teams use six questions and others as appropriate to prompt conversations on student learning. Evidence must relate to the institutions ability to meet the criteria and core components.

1. How are the organization’s stated student learning outcomes appropriate to its mission, programs, and degrees?
2. What evidence does the organization have that students achieve the stated learning outcomes?
3. In what ways does the organization analyze and use evidence of student learning?
4. How does the organization ensure shared responsibility for assessment of student learning?
5. How does the organization evaluate and improve the effectiveness of its efforts to assess and improve student learning?
6. In what ways do you inform the public and other stakeholders about what and how well your students are learning?

In using these questions, an organization should ground its conversations in its distinct mission, context, commitments, goals and intended outcomes for student learning.