The Team Room
A lockable, reasonably soundproof room must be set up in the school building so that the visiting team can review and discuss the program's documentation in confidence. Prior to the site visit, the program head usually discusses with the team chair the content and organization of the team room, which must contain fully labeled and easily accessible exhibits of student work. Exhibits must include examples of both minimum pass and high achievement, be of sufficient quantity to ensure that all graduates are meeting the performance criteria, have been executed since the previous site visit, and span no less than a single academic year. If more than one professional degree program is being reviewed, student work from each program must be clearly distinguishable. While a range of work must be displayed for each required course, it is not necessary to present the complete output of a studio, lecture, or seminar.

 

The means of presenting student work is at the program's discretion, but each piece must be cross-referenced to the course matrix and criteria it addresses, contain the date, and indicate its assessment from minimum to high achievement. Ideally, examples by several different students or teams will be furnished. Exhibits in spaces outside the team room can augment, but not substitute for, team room exhibits; they should be identified in a manner that is consistent with team room displays, except that indications of minimum and high pass may be omitted in public displays. Class assignments must be available for all projects presented.

 

In arranging the room, it is important to keep in mind that the team will need to gain an overview of the curriculum and the integration of studio and course work during each year of the program. Thus, it may be desirable to organize the entire documentation of a single year in one area instead of separating studio work from other course work.

 

The room must contain the following elements: