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Accreditation Support

AtlasOA supports evidence collection workflows for all six U.S. regional accreditors plus Perkins V reporting for CTE programs. Atlas K-12 supports state-level accountability reporting (specifics vary by state).

U.S. regional accreditors supported

Accreditor Region Key expectation AtlasOA addresses
HLC (Higher Learning Commission) North Central / Midwest Criterion 4.B: ongoing assessment of student learning with documented closing-the-loop
SACSCOC Southern Standards 8.2.a / 8.2.b: identified outcomes for each program, ongoing assessment, use of results
MSCHE (Middle States) Mid-Atlantic Standard V: educational effectiveness assessment with clearly stated outcomes and organized processes
NWCCU Northwest Standards 1.C / 1.D: defined SLOs per program, systematic assessment producing meaningful improvement
WSCUC Western (senior colleges) Standards 2 and 4: demonstrated program-level outcomes assessment, results used in decision-making
ACCJC Western (community colleges) Standards II.A.3 / I.B: identified SLOs for courses/programs/certificates, assessment, improvement use

For each accreditor, AtlasOA produces evidence packages that include:

  • Outcome statements at course, program, and institutional level
  • The assessment plan and rubrics used
  • Aggregated data and trend lines
  • The closing-the-loop record (what changed because of the data)
  • Verification data from the subsequent cycle

CTE and federal reporting

  • Perkins V Indicators 1S1-5S3: enrollment, persistence, credentials, work-based learning, special populations
  • Annual program review templates matching state CTE office requirements

Specialized accreditors

AtlasOA supports outcome-to-criterion mapping at the level most specialized accreditors require:

  • ABET (engineering, technology, computing) — outcome-to-criterion mapping, rubric scoring, course-embedded assessment
  • AACSB (business) — assurance-of-learning workflows on the roadmap
  • CAEP (educator preparation) — on the roadmap
  • ACEN / CCNE (nursing) — outcome mapping supported, specialty reports on the roadmap

For institutions where ABET reporting is the dominant workflow, AEFIS has a deeper ABET-specific toolkit. AtlasOA is the better fit when ABET is one of several reporting needs.

Atlas K-12 reporting

Atlas K-12 produces reports for:

  • State student support / MTSS reporting (specifics vary by state, configurable templates)
  • SEL screening cycle reports (universal, by grade, by school, by tier)
  • Tier-movement reports (how students moved between Universal, Targeted, and Intensive across the year)
  • Care Team activity logs for state audit purposes
  • Family-facing reports (optional, per-district configurable)

Closing the loop

Every assessment cycle in AtlasOA must close with a documented change. The cycle cannot be marked "complete" without recording:

  1. What we found — the aggregated data
  2. What we will do differently — a specific, named change
  3. Who is responsible and by when — name + date
  4. How we will verify — which outcome to re-measure next cycle

This requirement is enforced at the data-model level so closing-the-loop records cannot be forgotten.

Evidence export formats

  • PDF (for inclusion in self-studies)
  • DOCX (for editing inside self-study templates)
  • CSV / Excel (for further analysis)
  • JSON via REST API (for institutional research teams)

Roadmap items related to accreditation

  • AACSB-specific reporting templates (Q3 2026)
  • CAEP-specific reporting templates (Q3 2026)
  • HLC Criterion 5 reporting (governance and resource integration)
  • Accreditor-specific evidence package exporters with native templates

See ROADMAP.md for the full list.