CAM Quality Assurance & Compliance 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Under FERPA, which action requires written consent from a student before a mentor may share academic records with a third party?
- Sharing grades with the student's employer (Correct answer)
- Discussing attendance with the student's academic advisor within the same institution
- Reporting a safety threat to campus security
- Sharing directory information that the student has not opted out of
Correct answer: Sharing grades with the student's employer
FERPA requires written student consent before disclosing education records to outside parties such as employers, unless a specific exemption applies.
Question 2: Which accreditation concept refers to the ongoing process of reviewing a program's outcomes against its stated goals to drive improvements?
- Formative assessment
- Continuous quality improvement (CQI) (Correct answer)
- Summative evaluation
- Benchmarking
Correct answer: Continuous quality improvement (CQI)
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is the cyclical process of measuring program outcomes against goals and using data to make iterative enhancements.
Question 3: A mentoring program must ensure ADA compliance. Which accommodation scenario is the mentor legally obligated to support?
- Providing a student with a disability extended time on university exams (Correct answer)
- Giving a student with a learning disability a passing grade regardless of performance
- Modifying curriculum content to remove challenging material for a student with ADHD
- Exempting a student with anxiety from all assessments
Correct answer: Providing a student with a disability extended time on university exams
Under the ADA, institutions must provide reasonable accommodations such as extended test time; however, academic standards themselves are not lowered.
Question 4: When an academic mentor discovers a student has plagiarized a major assignment, the FIRST compliance step the mentor should take is:
- Report the incident to the appropriate academic integrity office per institutional policy (Correct answer)
- Immediately contact the student's parents
- Assign a failing grade and move on without documentation
- Warn the student privately without creating any record
Correct answer: Report the incident to the appropriate academic integrity office per institutional policy
Institutional academic integrity policies typically require that suspected violations be formally reported to the designated office before any grade or sanction is applied.
Question 5: Which metric is MOST useful for evaluating the quality of an academic mentoring program at the institutional level?
- The number of mentoring sessions held per week
- Student retention and graduation rate improvements among mentored cohorts (Correct answer)
- The number of resources provided to students
- Mentor self-reported satisfaction scores
Correct answer: Student retention and graduation rate improvements among mentored cohorts
Student retention and graduation rate improvements among mentored cohorts directly measure the program's educational impact at the institutional level.
Question 6: Title IX compliance in an academic mentoring context primarily requires a mentor to:
- Ensure equal access to mentoring services regardless of a student's gender (Correct answer)
- Teach only gender-neutral academic subjects
- Refuse to mentor students of a different gender
- File annual gender equity reports independently
Correct answer: Ensure equal access to mentoring services regardless of a student's gender
Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs, obligating mentors to provide equitable access to services for all students regardless of gender.
Question 7: An institutional review board (IRB) approval would be required when a mentor wants to:
- Conduct a formal research study using student academic data to publish findings (Correct answer)
- Review a student's previous quiz results to guide tutoring sessions
- Summarize a student's progress for an internal program report
- Set new learning objectives for a mentoring session
Correct answer: Conduct a formal research study using student academic data to publish findings
IRB approval is required for research involving human subjects, including studies using student data intended for publication or generalizable knowledge.
CAM Quality Assurance & Compliance 2
Under FERPA, which action requires written consent from a student before a mentor may share academic records with a third party?