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General Resources--Discussion Lists, Forums, Archives of Articles, Lists of Links, etc.

9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning

• From the American Association for Higher Education Assessment Forum. AAHE went out of business in summer 2005 and their website is no longer available. This page is from Indiana University Kokomo.
• Also see What is "Good" Assessment? A Synthesis of Principles of Good Practice.

• Surveys and assessment tools for colleges & universities.
• Links to information about other ACT tools for higher education.

American Evaluation Association

• Resources for and information about assessment & evaluation in many contexts, including education & higher education. See About Us.
• Discussion forums (under Resources) for AEA members.
• EVALTALK online discussion list.

American Society for Quality: Education Division

• A division of ASQ, the national organization for the application of quality control in business and industry.
• K-12 as well as higher education.

• Many of the individual institutions' assessment-related pages (below) include include assessment plans and guidelines for assessing administrative & support units. Also see the lists of examples and resources provided by Florida Atlantic University, North Carolina State University, and the University at Albany.
• Some assessment handbooks include information for administrative/support units as well as for academic units. Handbooks specifically for administrative &/or support units include:
• Administrative Unit Assessment Handbook (University of Central Florida, pdf file).
• Assessment Guide for Administrative and Academic Support Units (The American University in Cairo, pdf file).
• Handbook for Program Assessment in Administrative/Educational Support Units (Western Carolina University, pdf file).
• ASSESS discussion-list threads on assessing administrative & support units (see the list archive)
• July 2008 thread Learning Outcomes Assessment in Student Services, initiated by Rose Myers.

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

• Quarterly journal on assessment issues/methods.
• See article abstracts or purchase full text as pdf or html.

• ASSESS discussion-list threads on committee structure and function (see the list archive):
• March 1999 thread Faculty committees, initiated by Suzanne Decamp.
• September 2003 thread Course releases for faculty on assessment committees?, initiated by Tiffany Phagan.
• October 2005 thread Committee structure, initiated by David Gordon.
• November 2007 thread Institutional assessment committee, initiated by Erin Frew. Note Erin's 11/22/07 summary of responses.
• February 2009 thread Assessment committees???, initiated by Charles Patrick.
• Periodic assessment reports (often received and responded to by an assessment committee).
• What should departments report, and to whom? In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see: 
• The October 1999 thread Who Collects Reports?, initiated by Jane Thayer.
• The July 2009 thread What's in your annual assessment reports?, initiated by Pat Williams.

Assessment Grants

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
• October 2000 thread Mini-grant parameters and information initiated by Kurt Gunnell, and the related October & November posts Mini-grant information and Mini-grant information list.
• October 2009 thread Assessment Mini Grants initiated by Lea Campbell, and the associated response threads.
• Examples of campus-based programs to support faculty and departmental assessment projects. Some of these grant programs are currently active, some are not. (Some of these links are from Kurt Gunnell's list.)
  • Arkansas Tech University
  • Bergen Community College (about compensation/released-time for assessment activities rather than project-grants per se)
  • California State University,  Los Angeles (pdf file, scroll down for RFP details)
  • California State University, San Bernardino
  • California State University, San Marcos (Word document)
  • California State University, Stanislaus: Instructions and form for requesting grants (pdf files)
  • Central Michigan University (Word document)
  • Cleveland State University
  • Concordia College (the application form & guidelines are a Word document)
  • Duquesne University (html pages, pdf files)
  • Emporia State University (Word documents)
  • Ferris State University
  • Florida Atlantic University (pdf file & Word document)
  • Keene State College
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (pdf file)
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (scroll to the bottom of the page)
  • Indiana University Southeast
  • Las Positas College (pdf files).
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Marietta College (pdf file), with list of grant-funded projects
  • Meredith College
  • Miami University
  • Minnesota State University, Mankato (pdf files; scroll down to Assessment Grants)
  • Mount Royal College (Word documents)
  • Northern Arizona University (Word document)
  • Oakland University (Word document) 
  • Oklahoma State University grants for assessment budgets and special projects
  • Pennsylvania State University (mostly html pages, some pdf files)
  • St. Cloud State University (html pages, Word [.doc & .docx] files)
  • San Jose State University (see pdf files internal grants information and LPP grant packet)
  • Shepherd University (html page and Word document)
  • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville assessment scholars program & funding [Word documents & Excel file] for senior assignments
  • Spokane Community College (the application cover sheet & form is a Word [.docx] document)
  • Texas A&M Student Life Studies (pdf file)
  • Truman State University (project reports are pdf files)
  • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  • University of Dayton (the request form is a Word document)
  • University of Nebraska at Kearney
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of Northern Iowa
  • University of Rhode Island
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (the call for proposals is a pdf file)
  • University of Wyoming (the application is a Word document)
  • Waubonsee Community College
  • Weber State University
  • Western Michigan University (scroll down for grant guidelines and funded project presentations; pdf & Powerpoint files)

Assessment in Higher Education has annotated lists and links to resources about assessment of student learning in higher education.

• The site focuses on assessment of individual students' learning. While it does not emphasize resources about evaluating courses, programs, or individual instructors, many of the references and links are relevant to those activities.
• The site lists
  • online and offline articles, journals, and books.
  • online discussion lists, assessment-related organizations and conferences, and glossaries of assessment terminology.
  • software to facilitate assessment activities.
  • resources specifically related to multiple-choice tests and quizzes.
  • other assessment-related websites.

Assessment and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

• How IRBs interpret the federal regulations on research with human subjects varies from campus to campus.
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
• November 1999 thread IRB letters initiated by Jamie Young.
• October 2001 thread IRB approval initiated by Kevin Kinser.
• January 2002 thread  IRB approval and assessment instruments initiated by Barry Jenkins.
• August 2004 thread IRB is initiated by Edward Grandpre.
• September 2004 threads External survey requests and Passions aside, IRB is necessary, initiated by Karen Widbin and Mark Davenport.
• September 2005 threads Policy about Use of Assessment Results for Personal Research Activities and Use of Assessment Results,  Karen Widbin and Alan DuPont.
• April 2007 thread On Assessment and IRB initiated by Marsha Watson.
• August 2009 thread IRB initiated by Valerie Taylor.
• The Institutional Review Blog has ongoing news & commentary about IRB issues.

• New England Consortium on Assessment and Student Learning (NECASL)
  
• Longitudinal study of relationships between institutional practices at liberal arts colleges and students' experiences, activities, and learning.
• Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education
• Longitudinal study on factors that affect the outcomes of liberal arts education.
• From the Center of Inquiry at Wabash College.

• A joint project of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong.
• Information about, guidelines for, and issues in assessment and assessment-based pedagogy.
• Still to come: User-contributed assessment-practice examples.
• Bibliography and links to other resources. Includes resources not usually found in U.S.-based lists.

Assessment Resources

• Many of the individual institutions' assessment-related pages (below) include lists of links to assessment resources.
• From the Association of College & Research Libraries: Online journal article with links to a wide range of assessment resources.
• From Florida Atlantic University: Extensive and well-organized lists of links to general assessment resources and resources for assessment in specific academic disciplines and in administrative and support units.

Assessment Rubrics

• Winona State University's extensive list of rubrics for various disciplines, skills, and college-level assignments includes examples from many campuses. Note the link you can use to suggest additional examples.
• Examples of rubrics for general education outcomes:  (Also see the University of North Carolina-Greensboro's links to general education rubrics.)
• AAC&U metarubrics for a variety of general education skills & dispositions, based on reviews of  rubrics from many campuses.
• Bowling Green State University. Also has links to other information about assessment rubrics.
• Brenau University. Select Forms and Rubrics and follow the drop-down menus. (Word documents)
• California State University, Fresno, with suggestions for developing and using rubrics.
• Isothermal Community College (pdf file). See pp. 30ff.
• Northern Arizona University. Scroll down to Sample rubrics for the liberal studies skills.
• OpenEd Practices resources. Select Resource Types=Rubric.
• Palomar College. Select benchmarks.
• State University of New York rubrics for campus-based general education assessment. From SUNY's system-wide general education assessment initiative; posted by Binghamton University.
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Word documents). Note: See UW-Eau Claire's site for a more recent set of general education outcomes.
• Washington State University rubric for critical thinking.
• Sites designed for K-12 education, but useful as models and adaptable for higher education performance assessments.
  • Assessment Matters! has lots of rubric examples, plus other K-12-oriented assessment links.
  • Assessment and Rubric Information: Examples of evaluation scales/rubrics for various student and faculty activities.
  • Rubric generators create rubrics for various topics.
  • RubiStar lets you find, create, and save rubrics. From the Advanced Learning Technologies (ALTEC) project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning.
  • Steps in creating an assessment rubric, from the WebQuest site at San Diego State University.
• Waubonsee Community College's guide to developing rubrics (pdf file).
• Issues in creating effective rubrics
• Popham (1997), What's wrong -- and what's right -- with rubrics? (pdf file).
• Tierney & Simon (2004), What's still wrong with rubrics: Focusing on the consistency of performance criteria across scale levels.
• EduMetry's services include rubric-based scoring and analysis of student work products as well as consultation on designing learning outcomes and associated rubrics.

The Assessment for Student Development Clearinghouse, previously maintained by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA)'s Commission on Assessment for Student Development, is no longer available.

Assessment Update

• This bimonthly newsletter is one of the best ways to keep up with new developments and what's going on elsewhere. Articles may be available online through your college/university library.
• Web Corner columns are available online (1997-2002, updated in 2004).

Association for Institutional Research

• Internet Resources for Institutional Research is an extensive, well-organized list of links on a wide range of topics including assessment.
• Measuring Quality: Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality describes and compares nationally standardized assessment instruments.
• "Best practices" series on assessment in the disciplines. Current volumes deal with assessment of writing and assessment in business, engineering, and mathematics programs.
• The Electronic AIR email newsletter sometimes includes items related to assessment in higher education. Back issues are available online.

Association of American Colleges & Universities

• AAC&U's assessment initiatives: multi-institution research on assessment approaches and impacts.
• AAC&U's assessment-related publications, meetings, and institutes.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Automated essay grading

• Criterion, from ETS. Also see articles about the related products E-rater and C-rater.
• Intelligent Essay Assessor and Knowledge Analysis Technogies (KAT) Engine, from Pearson Knowledge Technologies.
• IntelliMetric, from Vantage Laboratories.
• SAGrader, from Idea Works.

Baldridge National Quality Program: Education Criteria

• See the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Quality Program site for more information about the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards.

Benchmarking

• EBI Educational Benchmarking
• Under Assessment, see Overview for EBI's approach to benchmarking.

Bloom's Taxonomy

• Bloom's 1956 taxonomy of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behaviors is often used or referred to in defining outcomes for assignments, courses, and curricula. Google Bloom's Taxonomy for a long list of relevant websites. Some with definitions & examples of Bloom's cognitive categories are:
  
  • Bloom et al.'s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, from Educational Psychology Interactive.
  • Bloom's Taxonomy, from the online textbook Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology, presents the revised version developed by Anderson et al in the 1990s. 
  • Using the New Bloom's Taxonomy to Devise Meaningful Learning Assessments (pp. 93-95 in the American Psychological Association's Assessment Cyberguide [pdf file]).
  • Learning Domains, or Bloom's Taxonomy has examples from the affective and psychomotor domains as well as from the (old version of the) cognitive domain.

Center for Education Assessment

• Information about: CEA's consulting activities and software for organizing NCATE program review and related assessment information.
• Note: While CEA focuses on assessment of teacher education, their programs can also be used to organize assessment information in other academic areas.

Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (México)

• Ceneval develops and administers performance exams for college entrance and assessment and for licensing/certification programs.
• The website includes information about Ceneval's exams and administration sites. Students can register and view their own results online.
• Note: Ceneval's website is in Spanish. Thanks to Phil Schmidt from Western Governors University for translation assistance.
  

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS)

• Hints, tips, techniques, and examples from:
  • Barton County Community College (pdf file)
  • Honolulu Community College
  • Middle Tennessee State University, with suggestions for using the techniques to assess the impact of classroom technology
  • Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas
  • Truckee Meadows Community College
  • Waubonsee Community College (pdf file)
• Course-based Review and Assessment (University of Massachusetts Amherst, pdf file).
• FAST (Free Assessment Summary Tool) and TooFAST (a new version), from Bruce Ravelli, Mt. Royal College.
  • Web survey for student feedback, for classroom assessment during the course of a term.
  • Fully anonymous, no way to tell who has submitted an evaluation, or how often. Not intended as an an end-of-term course evaluation whose data become part of the salary, promotion, and tenure process.
• Online version of the Teaching Goals Inventory, from the University of Iowa.
• See Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo & Cross, 1988, 1993, Jossey-Bass) for details on the TGI. The online version was created with the authors' permission.
• Technology Applied to Classroom Assessment, from the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
  • Links to online resources about classroom assessment and technology-enhanced classroom assessment.

• Interactive online process in which faculty members evaluate and discuss examples of student work.
• Coassess.org provides support for faculty engaged in COA activities.

• Data from institutions that stress online programs, including engagement (NSSE) and alumni satisfaction results. Program-level information includes learning outcomes and assessment methods.
• From the Transparency By  Design initiative.

College Results Online

• Searcheable database of graduation rates for four-year colleges and universities. From the Education Trust; based on NCES data.
• 4, 5, and 6-year rates, plus trends over time and freshman-to-sophomore retention, outbound transfer rates, and gender/ethnicity breakdowns.
• User-selected group of institutions or individual institution + database-generated comparison group based on institutional characteristics..

• Standardized assessment of general education skills & abilities.
• Reports emphasize institutional value-added.
• From the Council for Aid to Education (CAE).
• The Council of Independent Colleges CLA Consortium has reported its members' experience with the CLA. Scroll down to the Evidence of Learning report (pdf file).
• Information from and about a multi-institution CLA-based longitudinal study of undergraduate learning are available from the Social Science Research Council. On the project's site, scroll down to the initial report (pdf file).

Commission on the Future of Higher Education 

• The Commission met during 2005-2006, charged by the U.S. Secretary of Education to develop a national strategy for postsecondary education.
• Some parts of the final report and some of the issue papers deal with assessment, accountability, and accreditation (pdf files).

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)

• Nationally-normed survey of students' exposure to good practices in undergraduate education.
• Information about the project and the survey.
• About the survey has pdf demonstration versions of the survey.
• Survey results: summaries and (pdf) publications.
• CCSSE is designed for two-year institutions. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a similar project for four-year institutions.
• Some institutions' assessment sites include CCSSE reports. A November 2008 report from USA Today has college-by-college benchmark results.

Conferences: Lists of national, regional, and international assessment conferences and workshops

• Lists maintained by:
  • California State University, Long Beach
  • NOMESys (National Outcomes Measurement Systems). Extensive. Conference planners can submit new conferences to the list.
  • Illinois State University
  • The American University in Cairo (scroll down to Regional and international workshops and events)
  • University of Nebraska at Kearney
  • University of Northern Iowa

Consultants

• These individuals and groups offer consulting, workshops, etc. to help colleges & universities plan and implement outcomes assessment. Some also offer other services related to assessment. Many of them consult in other higher-education areas as well.
• This is just a list. It's not exhaustive and it doesn't imply a recommendation or evaluation.


• AIEA (Association of Internation Education Administrators) consultants list
• Alverno College Institute for Educational Outreach
• Coassess.org, for collaborative online assessment.
• College Matters: Marylin Newell
• Marilee Bresciani
• EduMetry
• Faculty Development Associates: Richard Lyons & Associates
• FASI-Online: See Services.
• Hawkins Strategies Group
• HigherEdAssessment.com: Ephraim Schechter
• Higher Education Direction: Peggy C. Wilds
• Insight Assessment: Peter & Noreen Facione & Associates
• José L. Arbona (Puerto Rico)
• The Kelley Assessment and Planning Services (KAPS): Larry Kelley
• The Learning Organization focuses on outcomes-based teaching & learning (Ruth Stiehl & Les Lewchuck)
• Linda Suskie
• Mary Bold & Lillian Chenowith
• The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
• PAC Productions: Patty Castelli
• Peggy Maki Associates
• REAP Change Consultants: Stephen Maack & Associates
• Solutions Oriented Consulting: Maggie Culp
• STEPS for Assessment
• Steve Ehrmann, Director of the Flashlight program
• Take the Credit, LLC: Richard Laramy and Associates
• Underwood Consulting: David G. & Susan J. Underwood
  
• Virginia S. Lee & Associates
• The Voorhees Group: Richard Voorhees & Associates
• Wabash Teagle Assessment Scholars

Council for Advancement of Standards in Higher Education

• Information about standards, guidelines, and assessment guides for Student Affairs programs. The guides/standards can be purchased as books, CDs, or downloadable RTF files (see the online store).

• Overview of the Cooperative Assessment Project.

Distance Education

• Assessment resources for on-line courses, from the University of Texas at Austin Center for Instructional Technologies.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse, from the University of Wisconsin-Extension.

EBI: Educational Benchmarking, Inc

• Surveys for assessment in a variety of academic and student-services areas. Analyses include comparisons with other participating institutions.
• When last checked:
  • Academic areas included business/management, engineering, nursing, and teacher education.
  • Student-services areas included the first-year experience, fraternities/sororities, student housing, and student unions/centers.
• The WESS system for web-based surveys can also be used to develop & administer custom surveys.

The Education Commission of the States (ECS) page has abstracts of publications and information about ECS projects in higher education and K-12 assessment, accountability, workplace preparation, and other topics.

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

• TestLink lets you search ETS's Test File for information about thousands of test and research instruments.

EDUCAUSE Transformative Assessment Project

• From EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII). Note: The project is no longer active.
• Definitions and primary research questions.
• Links to related resources and readings.

Ethical standards for assessment (Some of these are from a January 2002 Assess-L discussion. Thanks to Suzanne Garrison at Meredith College for initiating this thread.)

• Ethical Standards of AERA (American Educational Research Association).
• Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education, from the Joint Committee on Testing Practices.
• Leadership Statement of Nine Principles on Equity and Educational Testing and Assessment, from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
• Position statement on writing assessment, from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

• Searchable database with:
  • Bibliographic information for hundreds of articles on assessment, evaluation, statistics, and educational research.
  • Downloadable full text (pdf files) of many non-journal articles.
• A project of the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
• See Help for:
  • General search tips.
  • Information about facilitating searches with ERIC's Thesaurus.
  • FAQs about the ERIC program.
• Includes material that was added while the database was closed during 2004.

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, select March 2005 and scroll down to the thread Faculty attitudes toward student learning outcomes assessment. Kay Schneider's entry in this thread includes a link to Concordia College's survey of faculty attitudes about assessment. Concordia's 2005 survey (pdf file) and a Powerpoint presentation summarizing the results are also available (thanks, Kay!). Note: You may need a recent version of Internet Explorer to view the Powerpoint presentation.
• Developing/fostering positive attitudes and a "culture of assessment"
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2010 thread Compliance-Commitment (was [SACS] Taking the Fifth) initiated by Karen Kate Kellum.
• Frequently-encountered objections to outcomes assessment
• Frequently made objections to assessment and how to respond, from the TLT Group. Some are presented as objections to assessing the impact of technology-enhanced teaching. but they're all widely applicable.
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the discussion Logical fallacies and assessment initiated by Stephen Zerwas.
• April 2009, Logical fallacies and assessment - Straw dog/straw man and the associated threads Assessment and philosophical issues (initiated by Steve RiCharde) and Logical fallacies and assessment - "red herrings" arguments (initiated by Stephen Zerwas). Posts include philosophical/theoretical discussion, examples of fallacious arguments, and suggestions for dealing with fallacious arguments. 
• August 2009, Logical fallacies - Kill the messenger and Kill the Messenger ?? Ad Hominum? continued initiated by Stephen Zerwas.

The Flashlight Program

• From the TLT Group (Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group).
• Assessment tools (e.g., Flashlight Online; templates; study packages), training, external evaluation, and other forms of consulting to help institutions gather information to improve educational uses of technology. Some sections of the online handbook for Flashlight subscribers are available to the public; the rest of the handbook is restricted to Flashlight Program members.
• F-Light online journal about the use of technology in education includes some articles about outcomes assessment. 

Glossaries: Assessment Terms

• Assessment in Higher Education includes a list of glossaries.
• Assessment and Accreditation Glossary, from California State University, Stanislaus (pdf file)
• Assessment & Curriculum Glossary, from Madison Area Technical College (pdf file)
• Assessment Definitions, from California State University, Long Beach
• Assessment Glossary, from Ferris State University
• Assessment Glossary, from Millersville University.
• Assessment Glossary from Tulsa Community College.
• Assessment Glossary from the University of South Carolina.
• Assessment Glossary from the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
• Assessment Glossary of Terms, from California State University, Sacramento.
• Assessment Terminology, from Northeastern Illinois University's Student Affairs Assessment Committee (pdf file).
• Assessment Terminology: A Glossary of Useful Terms.
• Assessment Terms, from Northern Illinois University.
• Assessment Terms, from Northwestern Health Sciences University
• Beyond Confusion: An Assessment Glossary, from Association of American Colleges & Universities Peer Review.
• Common Language of Assessment of Student Learning (Del Mar College).
• CRESST Assessment Glossary, from UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.
• Dictionary of Student Outcome Assessment. Searcheable. From James Madison University.
• Dictionary of Terms, from Keene State College.
• Glossary, from the Assessment Resource Centre.
• Glossary, from Borough of Manhattan Community College's General Education Assessment Resource Center.
• Glossary, from California Lutheran University.
• Glossary, from Columbus State Community College
• Glossary, from Miami University.
• Glossary, from The American University in Cairo.
• Glossary, from the University of Texas at Arlington (pdf file)
• Glossary, from the University of Texas at Austin
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from the American Public University System
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from Indiana University Southeast
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from Loyola Marymount University.
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from Minnesota State University Moorhead
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from SUNY-Potsdam (pdf document).
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Georgia. 
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from the University of Maryland University College (pdf file).
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
• Glossary of Evaluation Terms (searcheable) and Teacher Evaluation Glossary from The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University.
• Glossary of Outcomes Assessment Terms, from Montgomery College.
• Glossary of Useful Terms, from the Massachussets Dept. of Education's System for Adult Basic Education (SABES).
• Local Lexicon of Assessment Terms, from California State University, Fresno.
• Learning Outcomes Assessment Glossary, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
• Selected Assessment Terms and Definitions, from California State University, Northridge (Word document).
• SLOA (student  learning outcomes assessment) Glossary, from South Texas College (pdf file).
• Strategic Outcomes Assessment Review and Report: Key Terms, from Tidewater Community College.
• Student Learning Glossary, from Oral Roberts University (pdf file).
• Working Definitions, from El Camino College.

Grades as outcomes assessment

• "We already give grades. Isn't that enough?" The issue's addressed in:
  • an on-line newsletter from California State University-San Bernardino,
  • Do grades make the grade for program assessment?, an article from ABET (pdf file).
  • FAQs from AACSB (item #2), Appalachian State University (item #2), Arkansas Tech University (item #9), Macalester College,  Minnesota State University, Mankato, Niagara University (see the last item), Pennsylvania State University, SUNY-Geneseo (item #7), the University of Idaho (pdf file; scroll down to "Why aren't grades enough?") and the University of Texas System.
  • New Mexico State University's assessment handbook (pdf file; scroll down to "Why can't we just use grades?"),
  • Old Dominion University's Assessment Topic "Why not grades?",
  • the University of Virginia's assessment guide (this pdf file will open in a separate PDF-reader window; find the section "Course Grades are not Enough (Usually)"), and
  • the University of Massachussetts-Amherst's assessment handbook (find the section on "Assessment and grading" in this pdf document).
  • The August 2009 ASSESS discussion-list thread Assessments replacing grades, initiated by David Eubanks, also addresses the relationship between grades and outcomes assessment.

• Some of the individual institutions' assessment-related pages (below) include include assessment plans and processes for graduate programs.
• Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs: A policy statement. From the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). (Not available online. To order the policy statement, select CGS Publications, then Online Bookstore.)
• Conference presentations on graduate-program assessment
• J. J. Hoey, 2009 SACS Summer Institute (these are pdf files). The Appendices include examples, a bibliography, and links to graduate-program assessment sites.
• Larick & Carter, 2006 CGS Annual Meeting (pdf file).

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the September 2008 thread Doctoral programs emphasizing assessment in high ed, initiated by Pat Williams.
• Boston College, Lynch School of Education doctoral program in educational research, measurement, and evaluation.
• Florida State University online certificate program in institutional research.
• James Madison University masters' and doctoral programs in assessment & measurement and online certificate program in assessment.
• San Diego State University certificate program in institutional research, planning, and assessment.
• University of Connecticut, Neag School of Education graduate programs in measurement, evaluation, and assessment.
• University of Maryland, Department of Measurement, Statistics & Evaluation graduate degree & certificate programs.

Impact of assessment

• Engineering Change: ABET study of how EC2000 standards and assessment requirements affect Engineering programs and students (pdf file).
• The Results are In: How NCATE's standards and assessment requirements affect Education programs and students (pdf file).
• ASSESS discussion-list threads on this topic (see the list archive):
• October 2006 thread Resources on Impact of Assessment on Learning and Teaching, initiated by Sean McKitrick of Binghampton University.
• August 2007 threads Outcomes to the Assessment Process? initiated by Ken Weiner at Montgomery College, and Assessment in Higher Education contributed by Richard Hake.
• April 2008 threads Evidence of impact of student learning assessment? and Evidence of impact of student learning assessment, initiated by Lois Myers.
• September 2009 threads Assessment, Budgeting, & Strategic Planning and [Spam] Re: [ASSESS:] Assessment, Budgeting, & Strategic Planning initiated by Erin Frew.
• November 2009 thread 404: Learning outcomes, initiated by David Eubanks, and David's blog entry on the topic.

Higher Education Resource Hub

• For assessment resources, select Higher Education Assessment.

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)

• A project of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA.
• CIRP Surveys: Information about nationally-standardized student surveys.
  • CIRP Freshman Survey: profile of entering freshman class.
  • CSS College Senior Survey: follow up of CIRP cohorts.
  • YFCY Your First College Year

• Assessment budgets: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the October 2009 thread Budgets, initiated by Susan Warner.
• Assessment directors' salaries
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2008  thread Assessment salary survey. Thanks to Erin Frew, Matt Fuller, and Margie Hobbs for initiating and managing the survey. Erin's initial post has information about the survey and includes pdf tables of results.
• Institutional support for enhancing student assessment
• Research report from the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (Project 5.2). Includes
• a literature review,
• results from a national survey of colleges and universities, and
• a description of site-visit research.
• Note: The project is no longer active.
• More than you think, less than we need: Learning outcomes assessment in American higher education. NILOA survey of institutions' assessment practices.
• The Assessment "handbooks" section includes rubrics and suggestions that can help evaluate your institution's assessment practices.
• Staffing assessment
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the March 2009 thread Advice on new assessment position, initiated by Nathan Garrett.
• See the ASSESS discussion-list threads on assessment committees.
• Should there be a central "assessment office?" In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
• April 1998 thread Coordinating Assessment, initiated by Kafkaz.
• January 2008 thread program assessment coordinators, initiated by Mary Kropiewnicki.
• April 2009 thread Type of assessment offices, initiated by Junelyn Peeples.
• How large should an assessment office be? In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see: 
• The November 2006 thread Information about assessment office personnel compared to university size, initiated by Ray Van Dyke.
• The September 2008 thread One-person assessment operations, initiated by Pat Williams.
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the June 2008 thread IR and Assessment Office Organizational Structure Question, initiated by Kevork Horissian.
• What qualifications should an assessment director have? In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see: 
• The January 2008 thread Fwd: RE: Salary survey, directors of assessment. Start with Stephen Maack's January 25th post.
• The June 2008 thread Qualities of an effective assessment coordinator, initiated by Linda Suskie, and the associated threads Fw: Qualities of an effective assessment coordinator, FW: [ASSESS:] Qualities of an effective assessment coordinator, and Where to look for good Director of Assessment candidates.
• The March 2009 thread WANTED: Director of Assessment job descriptions, initiated by Theresa Ford.
• To whom should an assessment director report? In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see: 
• The March 2009 thread Two queries re: assessment coordinators, initiated by Christopher Fauske.
• Faculty assessment fellows: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the October 2009 thread Faculty assessment fellow responsibilities, initiated by Kathleen Morley.
• Survey of Assessment Practices in Higher Education
• From Primary Research Group, Inc. Scroll down to the section on this report.
• A benchmarking study with information from 80+ colleges & universities on institutional support for assessment, plus methods and impacts.
• An exerpt on faculty involvement in assessment is available to view. Print and PDF versions of the full report are very expensive.
• Survey of institutions' support for outcomes assessment
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February 2008 thread Culture of assessment survey results. The initial post by Abdou Ndoye includes a pdf file of results. 
• The call for survey responses was in the January 2008 thread Culture of assessment survey.

Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

• Review of the literature on assessing learning, from the National Research Council's Committee on the Foundations of Assessment.
• K-12 as well as higher-education assessment. Published in 2001.
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School is a related review of cognitive science and the biology of learning, from the NRC's Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning and the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice. Published in 2000.
• Note: Both books can be read online.

League for Innovation in the Community College: 21st Century Learning Outcomes Project

• Information about a multi-institution project to define and document student learning outcomes.
• Links to participating institutions' project websites and to other resources. The project is no longer active, but some of the institutions' websites are still available.

• From the American Council on Education.
• Links to & brief descriptions of major projects.
• Some of the projects are mentioned elsewhere in this list (Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment). E.g.: OECD's AHELO project, the New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability, Tuning USA, and the Voluntary System of Accountability.

National Assessment Governing Board

• Information about the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These are assessments of students in grades 4, 8, and 12, not of college students. Relevant to assessment in higher education as illustration of a current national model for assessing student learning.
• The NCES site "The Nation's Report Card" has details about and reports from NAEP assessments in various subject areas.
• The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) compares U.S. 4th & 8th graders with students from other countries.
  

The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) page has information about publications and services for assessment and other higher-education areas.

• Assessing Assessment: Successes, Failures, and the Future overviews the state of higher education outcomes assessment (this pdf file will open in a separate window). Presentation by Peter Ewell, NCHEMS vice-president, at the 2007 IUPUI Assessment Institute. Ewell's chapter An emerging scholarship: A brief history of assessment has details and references (in Banta, T.W. & Assoc. [2002], Building a scholarship of assessment. Jossey-Bass).
• NCHEMS' Information Center provides state-by-state comparisons of data related to higher-education issues. Some are outcomes assessment data, most are not.

The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) page at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has mostly K-12 material, including papers, technical reports, and links to related sites.

National Community College Benchmark Project

• Participating institutions can compare outcomes results with those of other participants. The data are not available to non-participants.
• The site includes:
  • A description of the project and the benchmarks used. Some of the benchmarks are outcomes assessment results, some are other institutional-research data.
  • An example of the report that is prepared for each institution.
  • A list of participating institutions and information about enrolling in the project.

• NILOA focuses on identifying & promoting effective assessment practices.
• Information about and from an annual survey of higher education assessment practices.
• Occasional papers by assessment experts.
• Assessment bibliography.
• Links to other assessment sites and to information about:
• Nationally standardized assessment instruments.
• Portfolio assessment.
• Assessment conferences & workshops.
• Regional & specialized accreditation.
• Assessment awards from national associations.
• Related projects & organizations.

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC)

• A project of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
• NPEC student outcomes projects focus on assessment policy, methods, coordination, and/or data use. pdf files of papers from some projects are available.
• Definitions and assessment methods for various general-education areas.

National Study of Living-Learning Programs

• Information about this project on the effectiveness of living-learning programs, and results from completed studies.

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

• Nationally-normed survey of students' exposure to good practices in undergraduate education.
• pdf demonstration versions of the survey.
• Register your institution online for the next administration.
• Some institutions' assessment sites include NSSE reports.
• NSSE is designed for four-year institutions. The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) is a similar project for two-year institutions.
• The Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE) taps entering students' pre-college experiences and their expectations for participating in the educational practices that NSSE examines.
• The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) taps faculty opinions about students' exposure to the educational practices that NSSE examines.
• The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education includes research on relationships between NSSE benchmarks and more direct measures of student learning. In Research And Publications, use your browser's (F)ind function to search for report titles that include "NSSE."

• A Culture of Evidence: Critical Features of Assessments for Postsecondary Student Learning, from ETS (pdf file). Information about (some) instruments for general education skills, major-field assessment, student engagement, and "soft" (noncognitive) skills. Includes both ETS and other providers' instruments.
• Inventory of Higher Education Assessment Instruments, from the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) and the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER). Information about instruments for institutional effectiveness, basic skills (general education), affective development, and major-field assessment.
• Measuring Quality: Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality (pdf file). Describes and compares nationally standardized assessment instruments.
• NPEC Sourcebooks on Assessment include definitions, information about tests and other instruments. Volumes, available as pdf files, include Definitions and Assessment Methods for:
  • Communication, Leadership, Information Literacy, Quantitative Reasoning and Quantitative Skills
  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Writing
• Notes: 
• Instrument names and details have changed since some of these reports were published. E.g., ETS' Academic Profile is now the Proficiency Profile (previously called the Measure of Academic Progress & Proficiency, or MAPP) and HERI's College Student Survey is now the College Senior Survey. If the reports' links don't forward you to the latest versions, search the publishers' sites. 
• Instruments too recent to be included in these reports include:
• UniLOA (general education).
• Profile of Today's College Student (Profile). Demographics, campus involvement, technology use, values & beliefs, and personal development.

• Includes representatives from higher-education organizations and experienced assessment researchers.
• Initiatives include:
• Developing a LEED-style certification system for colleges' & universities' assessment/accountability processes.
• Developing a template for data-sharing, expanding the VSA, U-CAN, and Transparency by Design models.
• Networking and agenda-setting.

Online discussion

• Blogs about assessment
• This is just a list. It's not exhaustive and it doesn't imply a recommendation or evaluation..
• The Assessment Forum from Ann Boudinot-Amin at the American University in Cairo.
• Assessment Matters, from the University of Nevada-Reno Office of University Assessment.
• Assess This!, from Pat Williams at the University of Houston-Downtown.
• Authentic Assessment, from Andrew McCann at Subjective Metrics.
• Higher Ed / Assessing the Elephant, from David Eubanks at Coker College. David's Assessment Blogs page pulls together posts from several of the blogs in this list.
• Higher Ed Assessment, from Mary Bold.
• Linda Suskie's website includes a blog.
• StudentVoice's user community has several blogs about assessment. When last checked, it included blogs (with various levels of activity) from Ted Elling at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Gavin Henning at Dartmouth College, Malinda Matney at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Darby Roberts at Texas A&M University, and Kim Vanderlinden at StudentVoice.
• Discussion lists
• Subscribing to email discussion lists
  • Send an email message to the listserver for the list to which you want to subscribe. The message should say
        subscribe list-name your-first-name your-last-name
        (e.g.: subscribe assess John Smith)
    and have nothing in the Subject: line and no "signature" at the bottom.
  • After you've subscribed, send the one-word message
        help
    to get a list of commands you can use to suspend mail while you're on vacation, unsubscribe from the list, etc.
• ASSESS
  • Topic: assessment in higher education.
  • Listserver: listserv@lsv.uky.edu (University of Kentucky).
  • The searcheable archive also has an online form you can use to join the list.
• COMFO (College Outcomes Measurement Forum Online)
  • Topic: assessment in higher education.
  • Listserver: imailsrv@gnomewebs.com
• EVALTALK
  • Topic: Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness. Many threads relevant to outcomes assessment.
  • From the American Evaluation Association.
  • Lots of traffic. To avoid clogging your inbox, have your email program automatically put Evaltalk messages into a separate folder/mailbox.
  • Listserver: listserv@ua1vm.ua.edu (University of Alabama)
  • The searcheable archive also has an online form you can use to join the list. You must be a list member to search the archive.
• FYA-List
  • Topic: evaluating students' experiences and success in the first year of college.
  • Listserver: listserv@listserv.sc.edu (University of South Carolina).
  • Supported by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
  • Searcheable archive of list discussions; select FYA.
  • FYA-List's Web site includes
    • Information about joining, participating in, and leaving the list.
    • A searcheable archive of invited essays from area experts.
    • Links to other assessment resources and a searcheable database of information about FYA instruments.
• ASSESS-W
  • Topic: assessing writing.
  • Listserver: listserv@listserv.louisville.edu (University of Louisville).
• PORTFOLIO-L
  • Topic: portfolio assessment.
  • Listserver: listserv@henson.cc.kzoo.edu (Kalamazoo College).
• Assessment in Higher Education's page of discussion lists has information about other assessment-related lists. So does the Higher Education Resource Hub's list of assessment resources (select Higher Education Assessment from the menu at the left side of the Hub's home page and scroll down to Assessment Electronic Discussion Lists).

Portfolio Assessment

• Extensive list of links to information about alternative assessment and electronic portfolios, from Helen Barrett at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
• Catalyst Portfolio Project Builder, from the University of Washington.
• Diagnostic Digital Portfolio at Alverno College. Enter and Demo are restricted to Alverno students, faculty, & staff.
• Günter Krumme in the University of Washington Geography Department has posted information about learning portfolios at UW, in the department, and at other institutions.
• Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research campus-based research projects on whether & how the use of portfolios affects student learning.
• Kalamazoo College web-based portfolio, including examples and links to Internet resources.
• myMAPP (Mapping Academic Performance through e-Portfolios), from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
• Open ePortfolio (Select Overview and scroll down to More Articles. See especially Assessment through 20. Review Comments.)
• Oral Roberts University's assessment page includes overviews and presentations about e-portfolios and handbooks for students about general education and some academic-discipline e-portfolios (pdf files and Word documents).
• University of Minnesota's Electronic Portfolio. Development of the University of Minnesota's ePortfolio system is described in the 2003 Educause article Electronic portfolios need standards to thrive (pdf file, requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or better).
• RosE Portfolio from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The demo and the student Help manual (pdf files) were not available when last checked.
• Truman State University portfolio project: FAQ, portfolio prompts, and portfolio guidelines for students and faculty.
• University of Denver Portfolio Community. Guest registration allows browsing.
• University of Minnesota Duluth ePortfolio. See the Getting Started tutorial (pdf file), the Apple Quicktime movie, and the link to download the open-source program.
• Commercial products to manage on-line portfolios
  • Angel ePortfolio assessment and management tool, can link to Angel's learning management tools.
  • Blackboard's Learn Platform includes portfolio management tools. Under Platform capabilities, see Content management.
  • Chalk & Wire's e-Portfolio.
  • Digication's Assessment Management System includes portfolio tools.
  • ePortfolio, from Epsilen.
  • iWebfolio, from Nuventive.
  • The PASS-PORT assessment-management system includes a portfolio tool.
  • RXportfolios, for pharmacy programs, is part of the RXInsider Academic Suite which also includes assessment-management tools.
  • Serensoft provides e-portfolio services.
  • TaskStream's Learning Achievement Tools include e-portfolio assessment & management.
  • TK20's CampusTools HigherEd and CampusWide have portfolio tools as part of a system to gather and organize assessment information. 
  • Also see Helen Barrett's list of commercial e-portfolio vendors.
  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, select May 2005 and scroll down to Electronic Portfolio Software and Assessment, Renee Corbin's list of e-portfolio products. Open the message and then click [text/html] at the bottom of the page for a version with "live" (clickable) links.

Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation

• On-line journal, since 1989.
• Search by title, author, descriptor, keyword.

Program review and outcomes assessment

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the May & July 2009 thread Combining program review and assessment, initiated by Erin Frew.

Qualitative data analysis methods and tools

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see: 
• The September 2007 thread Qualitative Data Analysis Question, initiated by Mitzi Lewis. In October 2007, scroll down to the thread Qualitative Data Analysis Question - Summary for Mitzi's summary of responses and some more discussion.
• The February 2010 thread qualitative software reviews?, initiated by Christopher Vinger.
• Content-analysis.de's annotated links to qualitative analysis software packages and other information about content-analysis methods.

Service-learning and assessment

• Assessment links from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.

Software for web surveys

• Association for Survey Computing: Register of Software for Statistical and Social Survey Analysis: Well-annotated, easy to use listings from a regularly-updated database. Not limited to products for Web-based surveying. Start with the list of features, then go to "Data Capture" and then to "Web Interviewing."
• On-Line Survey Tools. Annotated list from ACPA's Commission on Assessment for Student Development. Select Commission Resources, then On-Line Survey Tools.
• These software and survey-hosting services were not in the lists above when last checked: (Some of these are from ASSESS posts by Renee Corbin at Western Carolina University and Lib Pruden at Union Institute. This is just a list. It's not exhaustive, and it doesn't imply a recommendation or evaluation.)
  
  • Adaptex Assessment System, from James Madison University.
  • AskAnywhere, from Senecio.
  • Asset (Academic Survey System and Evaluation Tool, from the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Seton Hall University.
  • Checkbox from Prezza Technologies has software for your own campus' servers as well as a hosted version.
  • CoursEval, from Academic Management Systems, is designed for course, faculty, and peer evaluations but can also be used for other small surveys.
  • Education Direction survey tools.
  • eListen from Scantron.
  • EvalTools from Makteam Software. The examples are for engineering programs doing outcomes assessment for ABET accreditation, but EvalTools surveys can be used for any academic program.
  • Flashlight Online, from the TLT Group.
  • LiveText Accreditation Management System includes a survey tool.
  • Qualtrics. See the qualtrics research suite for details.
  • PollCat. Free survey-creation, hosting, and summary reports for small surveys. There are fees for larger surveys, custom surveys, and detailed data.
  • SurveyConnect.
  • SurveyDIG, from Runner Technologies.
  • SurveyMaker, from Griffith University.
  • SurveySuite, from the University of Virginia.
  • SurveyTracker Plus Email/Web from Scantron handles online surveys as well as scannable forms.
  • TestPilot, from ClearLearning.
  • TK20's CampusTools HigherEd and CampusWide have survey tools as part of a system to gather and organize assessment information.
  • Vovici survey tools.
  • WESS (Web-Enabled Survey System), from EBI.
• Also see Yahoo's current links on the topic. Some of these are survey software, some are survey-hosting services.
• Some threads in the ASSESS discussion list archive have users' comments about web survey software or hosting services:
• December 2004 thread Question Web survey software, initiated by Ted Micceri.
• The October 2005 threads Online survey comparison matrix and Online survey hosts include Gavin Henning's Excel file of information and user comments (thanks for compiling this, Gavin!). 
• July 2007 threads electronic survey and thanks, initiated by Elizabeth Pruden.
• The August 2007 threads Consultant for online survey and Consultant for online survey: Listserv feedback compiled, initiated by Brian Bogert.
• Some online articles about Web-based surveying
  • Web-based Data Collection and Assessment in Student Affairs (2000): pros and cons.
  • Conducting Web-Based Surveys (2001): methods, pros & cons, overview of research.
  • Conducting Research Surveys via E-mail and the Web (2001): methods, pros & cons, literature review. An extensive RAND Corp. report, available as a set of pdf documents.

SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers

• National Commission on Accountability in Higher Education
  • Project to review states' experience using accountability systems to improve higher education performance.
• Network News newsletter:
  • Focus on Educational Accountability (April 2005). Recommendations include coordinated emphasis on learning outcomes and assessment. (pdf file)
  • Focus on Assessment of Student Learning (January 2002). State and national perspectives on assessment. Links to web resources. (pdf file)
  • Focus on Teacher Preparation (May 1999). Includes information on existing or proposed accreditation approaches, links to Web resources. (pdf file)
  • Focus on Performance Management (February 1998). State performance indicators and performance-based funding initiatives. (Not online but available from SHEEO.)

Standards for Success

• AAU/Pew project to
  • identify knowledge/skills for success in entry-level college/university courses and
  • map correspondence between those standards and state high school assessments.
• Downloadable versions of
  • the standards for general academic areas (English, math, social sciences, etc.).
  • "Mixed Messages" report of initial research on the correspondence with high school assessments.

• Measuring Up "report card"
• From the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Scoring categories include preparation for and participation in higher education, afforadbility, completion, benefits, and student learning. All states received "grades" of Incomplete for student learning; current data did not allow meaningful state-by-state comparisons.
• Executive summary (pdf file) plus individual state reports.
• Ready to Assemble: States' higher education accountability systems
• From Education Sector. What information do states collect on their higher education institutions, and how do they use that information for institutional improvement?
• Interactive map and individual state & scoring-category summaries, plus (pdf files) executive summary & individual reports.

State and Regional Assessment Organizations

• Missouri Assessment Consortium
• Information about MAC.
• Guiding principles and assessment handbook.
• Links to Missouri institutions'' assessment websites.
• New England Educational Assessment Network
  • Information about NEEAN.
  • Activities and events including information about Dialogues in the Disciplines workshops on assessment in specific academic disciplines.
• New Mexico Higher Education Assessment Association
  • Information about NMHEAA and statewide assessment conferences.
• Virginia Assessment Group
  • About VAG.
  • Conferences, workshops, and session handouts (pdf, Powerpoint, and Word files).
  • Online journal Research & Practice in Assessment (pdf files).
  • Assessment-related employment notices from Virginia colleges & universities.
  • Links to other assessment resources. The list on the left has materials from VAG conferences & workshops (pdf, Powerpoint, and Word files).

StudentTracker, from the National Student Clearinghouse

• Tracks students' enrollment across institutions, regardless of state and college/university-system boundaries.
• Approximately 3,000 institutions participate, ranging from community colleges to Ivy League doctoral/research-extensive universities. The May/June 2009 issue of Assessment Update includes an article on research using NCS data as a proxy for a "national enrollment database."
• Only participating institutions have access to the Clearinghouse's services. The fee for Student Tracker depends on your institution's enrollment.

 Tools to Help Organize Assessment Information

• ASSESS discussion-list threads on users' experience with assessment management software (see the list archive)
• February 2006 thread Assessment tracking systems, initiated by David Kale.
• August 2006 thread Assessment reporting software, initiated by Margie Hobbs. Margie's summary in the associated thread Assessment management software includes a Word document with information from a number of vendors (thanks, Margie).
• July 2008 thread Assessment management systems, initiated by Janine Vienna. Steve RiCharde's July 11 posts include a draft chapter on things to consider when selecting assessment management software (Word document) and a partial list of vendors (Excel file) -- thanks, Steve.
• aPlus+, from Cobek, for organizing & summarizing assignment details & grades.
• Blackboard's Learn Platform includes tools for for assessment processes, information, and reports. Integrated with tools for course information, surveys, document and portfolio management, and user-community interaction.
• Digication's Assessment Management System for collecting and managing assessment information includes portfolio, rubric, and reporting tools.
• eLumen Achievement database for assessment processes, rubrics, results, and reports. Select How eLumen Achievement Models the Essential Process for annotated screen shots.
• FASI-Online assessment documentation system.
• iSocrates system for rubric-based grading and student feedback on individual assignments. For program or cross-program assessment, data can be exported to spreadsheets or class management systems for aggregation. Registered users can share rubrics they've generated for specific tasks or assignments.
• LiveText Accreditation Management System for collecting data and organizing outcomes, rubrics, results, etc.
• Maple T.A. from Maplesoft, for creating, presenting, grading, & organizing results from mathematics/science assignments & exams, can also be used for non-math/science courses.
• myMAPP (Mapping Academic Performance through e-Portfolios), from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
• OATS (Online Assessment Tracking System) and SODS (SACS Online Documentation System) from Georgia Institute of Technology's Office of Assessment. Both programs are available for download by other institutions. An OATS user guide (pdf file) and a SODS demo are available.
• openIGOR: A free Linux-based open-source program to manage information about program outcomes and assessment-related documents. From Coker College.
• PASS-PORT, from Innovative Learning Assessment Technologies. Includes versions specialized for business program, nursing program, and teacher-education program accreditation management.
• rGrade, from Educational Informatics.
• RXoutcome, for pharmacy programs, is part of the RXInsider Academic Suite which also includes portfolio tools.
• STEPS for Assessment: System to collect data and organize & report outcomes, rubrics, results, etc.
• TaskStream's Accountability Management System (AMS) to organize, review, & summarize assessment information, and Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) for assignment & e-portfolio assessment.
• The Teacher Education Assessment System (TEAS) from the Center for Education Assessment, facilitates NCATE and state-level education accreditation reviews. It can also be used to organize program assessment information in other academic areas.  On the final page of CEA's information presentation, select Teacher Preparation.
• ThinkTank, from GroupSystems, facilitates collaboration and records and stores information from assessment group meetings.
• TK20's CampusTools HigherEd and CampusWide include tools for electronic portfolios and online surveys.
• TracDat database for assessment processes, information, and reports. From Nuventive.
• Waypoint Outcomes keeps track of assignment-level outcomes within and across courses. From Subjective Metrics. Note: this site disables your browser's (B)ack button.
• WEAVEonline database for assessment processes, information, and reports. Originally developed at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• WIDS (Worldwide Instructional Design System) curriculum-design software includes tools to monitor outcomes and associated rubrics and results. Select Products, then Read more... about Software.

TRIADS: Assessment of Learning Outcomes

• TRIpartate Assessment Delivery System: A joint project of the University of Liverpool, the University of Derby, and the Open University.
• TRIADS Engine: authorware for developing online assessments.
• Sample learning outcomes (for earth science programs).
• TRIADS activities and implementations.

• Pilot project to define learning outcomes for specific disciplines. See the FAQs for details.
• Based on the Bologna Process methodology.
• From the Lumina Foundation.

VaNTH ERC Assessment & Evaluation Projects

• VaNTH ERC: an engineering research center in bioengineering and learning sciences, from Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, the University of Texas at Austin and the Health Science and Technology Program of Harvard and MIT.
• The Research / Thrusts in assessment & evaluation, learning technology, and learning science have information about projects that link assessment with knowledge about how people learn.

• College Portrait: Definitions and web-reporting template for college/university characteristics including retention & progress rates,  general-education learning outcomes, and student experiences and engagement.
• Innovations include reporting cross-institutional retention/progress, based on National Student Clearinghouse data, and common reporting formats for results from specific sets of standardized tests and surveys.
• Individual institutions' data (pdf files) are available at the College Portrait site. Search for Colleges by name or state.
• A joint project of AASCU and APLU. Currently, only member institutions may participate.

What is "Good" Assessment? A Synthesis of Principles of Good Practice (this pdf file will open in a separate PDF-reader window)

• Five dimensions of good assessment practice, summarized from national organizations and assessment experts. With references to and summaries of the sources.
• From Linda Suskie at MSA-CHE.

What Outcomes Assessment Misses

• From TLT Group's Flashlight program, so it focuses on assessment about technology -- but the general points apply to any assessment project.

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Assessment "handbooks"

How to develop and implement a campus or departmental assessment process

• Academic Program Assessment Plans (California State University, Sacramento; pdf file).
• Administrative Unit Assessment Handbook (University of Central Florida, pdf file).
• As Easy as Apple Pie: A Baker's Guide to Assessment Plan Development (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Assessing Student Learning in Higher Education (Bakersfield College)
• Assessment 101 (Swarthmore College, pdf file)
• Assessment and Quality Enhancement for Institutional Effectiveness at TCU, from Texas Christian University (pdf file)
• Assessment: An Institution-Wide Process to Improve and Support Student Learning (College of DuPage, pdf file)
• Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals & Outcomes (American Psychological Association, pdf file)
• Assessment for people who don't have enough time to do assessment workshop (Concordia College)
• Assessment for Student Learning Handbook (Columbus State Community College, pdf file)
• Assessment Guide (University of Virginia's Assessment site; the pdf file opens in a separate PDF-reader window)
• Assessment guides for Academic Units and Administrative and Academic Support Units (The American University in Cairo, pdf files)
• Assessment Guidebook for Departments (Bridgewater State College)
• Assessment Handbook (Division of Student Services, Metropolitan State College of Denver; pdf file)
• Assessment Handbook (Indiana University Southeast; pdf files)
• Assessment Handbook (Morningside College; pdf files)
• Assessment Handbook (Indiana State University, pdf files)
• Assessment Handbook (Paradise Valley Community College; scroll down to menu of handbook chapters [pdf files])
• Assessment Handbook (Skidmore College)
• Assessment Handbook (Southwestern University, pdf file).
• Assessment Handbook (University of Michigan College of Engineering)
• Assessment Handbooks: Core Courses and General Education and Degree Programs (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
• Assessment Manual (Northern Illinois University)
• Assessment planning for academic programs: A practical workbook (Arizona State University, pdf file)
• Assessment Primer (University of Connecticut). To see the whole handbook, click Start Here and follow the Next Page links at the bottom of each page. Some pages include links to more detailed pdf documents.
• Assessment Primer: Building Communities (Doña Ana Community College, pdf file)
• Assessment Process Handbook (Indiana Wesleyan University, pdf file)
• Assessment Revisited: A Guide to De-Cluttering the Assessment Process (New Mexico State University, pdf file).
• Assessment Workbook (Ball State University, pdf files)
• Assessment Workbook (CSU Stanislaus, pdf file)
• A Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) for Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Faculty
• Busy Chairperson's Guide to Assessment (Southeast Missouri State Univ.)
• College Guide for Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (Diablo Valley College, pdf file)
• Course-based Review and Assessment and Program-Based Review and Assessment (University of Massachusetts Amherst, pdf files)
• Course and Program Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Handbook (Santa Rosa Junior College, pdf file)
• Creating an Effective Assessment Plan for the Sociology Major (pdf file). From the American Sociological Association. Examples may emphasize sociology programs, but this is a general handbook with information useful to any program.
• Developing Academic Program Assessment Plans (Western Kentucky University)
• Effectiveness Planning Manual (Coker College, Word document)
• The FAQ from the University of Texas System includes many common questions about jargon, how assessing a program is different from other assessment that faculty do, etc.
• Search the FYA-List archive for essays by Marc Chun that use pop culture to illuminate common issues in developing and implementing assessment programs. Also see Marc's 2002 article Looking where the light is better: A review of the literature on assessing higher education quality.
• Guide for developing and implementing a program outcomes assessment plan (Northern Essex Community College, pdf file)
• Guide for Learning Outcomes Assessment & Classroom Learning Assessment (Community College of Baltimore County, pdf file)
• Guidelines for Assessment (College of Wooster, pdf file)
• Guide to Best Practices for Academic Program Analysis and Improvement (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Guide to Outcomes Assessment (San Jose State University, pdf file)
• Guide to Student Outcomes Assessment (California State University, Fresno)
• Handbook (St. Cloud State University)
• Handbook for Faculty Program Assessment (Oklahoma City Community College, pdf file)
• Handbooks for Program Assessment in Academic Units and Administrative/Educational Support Units (Western Carolina University, pdf file)
• Institutional Effectiveness Practitioner's Manual (Texas A&M International University, pdf file)
• Learning Outcomes Assessment Planning Guide (California Polytechnic State University)
• Managing a Program of Outcomes Assessment. A workshop presented by Fred Volkwein at the 1998 Association for Institutional Research annual forum.
• Missouri Assessment Consortium Handbook
• Office of Assessment and Evaluation Handbook (University of Louisiana at Monroe, pdf file)
• Online tutorial (assessment handbook) from Modesto Junior College: Start with The Big Picture and follow the links, or use the tabs from The Big Picture to About the Data to view individual sections.
• Program Assessment Handbook (University of Central Florida, pdf file)
• SAAC Made Easy (Student Academic Achievement Committee guidebook for course-level assessment, Estrella Mountain Community College; pdf file)
• Six Steps to Continuous Improvement of Student Learning (Kent State University)
• SLO and Assessment Manual, section 1, section 2, section 3 (Laney College, pdf files, adapted from Cabrillo College's workbooks)
• Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Handbook with a "Cliff Notes" quick overview (Montgomery College, pdf files)
• Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Manual (University of Delaware)
• Student Learning Outcomes: A Guide for Faculty (Fresno City College, about writing learning outcomes; pdf file)
• Teaching & Learning Resources: Assessment & Outcomes (Western Washington University)
• The El Camino College SLO Handbook and SLO: Focus on Results (El Camino College, Word documents).
• The Path to Achievement and Excellence in Assessing Student Learning: Sharing Our Best Practices, (Northern Arizona University, pdf file)
• Tools and Techniques for Program Improvement and for Course Improvement (Western Washington University, pdf files, adapted from the University of Massachussetts at Amherst handbooks.)
• UW-Madison Assessment Manual (Univ. of Wisconson-Madison)
• Unit Effectiveness Process Assessment Handbook (University of Texas at Arlington, pdf file; if you use the Firefox browser you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 or higher to load this file properly)
• WEAVE Quality Enhancement Guide (Virginia Commonwealth University; pdf file)
• Workbooks for course-level, program-level, and basic-skills assessment (Cabrillo College, pdf files).

Evaluating your institution's assessment practices

• A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes (ETS, pdf file). Institutional strategies for using assessment effectively.
• Assessing your program-level assessment plan (IDEA paper #45, Susan Hatfield; pdf file).
• The TLT Group's notes on policies & practices that support an institution's culture of evidence.
• NCA-HLC's Levels of Implementation and Assessment Culture worksheets and matrices for evaluating an institution's assessment practices, and a whitepaper on using the worksheets (pdf files). 
• These worksheets are not specific to HLC accreditation and can be useful to any institution.
• They are guides for self-examination, not accreditation checklists. (Note: They're no longer part of HLC's Handbook of Accreditation because too many institutions treated them as checklists.)
• Self-assessment: Quality assurance of program-level assessment of student learning, a rubric & checklist from ABET (pdf file).
• WASC-ACSCU's rubrics to evaluate the effectiveness of assessment processes: In WASC's Document Library, select Browse by Category. On the drop-down menu, select Educational Effectiveness Review and scroll down to the Program Learning Outcomes Rubric, the General Education Assessment Rubric, and the Program Review Rubric (pdf files).

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the August and September 2008 threads Seeking advice... (August) and Seeking your advice (September), initiated by Jonathan Keiser.

Many of the individual institutions' assessment-related pages (below) have good "how to do it" tips.

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Assessment of Specific Skills or Content

Many of the individual institutions' assessment-related pages (below) include discipline-specific assessment plans. Also see the examples by specific disciplines in lists of assessment resources from Bucknell University, College of Wooster, Florida Atlantic University, Howard University, Marquette University, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), North Carolina State University: Division of Undergraduate Academic Programs, St. Cloud State University, Skidmore College, the University at Albany, the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and the University of South Carolina Aiken. (You may need to scroll down on some of these pages to get to the resources by discipline. On UNC-Greensboro's page, see both Sample Assessment Plans and Sample Assessment Rubrics.) Also see the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's (UK) benchmark statements of outcomes & competencies in various areas.

Nationally-standardized assessments of undergraduate majors

• Area Concentration Achievement Tests (ACAT), from NOMESys (National Outcomes Assessment Systems).
• On ETS' home page, select Major Field Tests (MFT).

• Evaluate skills, knowledge, & characteristics associated with success in online learning.

Assessing general education knowledge and skill areas

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
• February 1999 thread General Education Assessment initiated by Jeanne Osborn.
• October 2009 thread Assessing Gen Ed initiated by Joy Milano.
• Note: some of the resources listed below mention ETS's Academic Profile. See ETS's site for information about the AP's replacement, the Proficiency Profile (previously called the Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress, or MAPP).
• Examples of rubrics for general education outcomes.
• AAC&U report on a 2008-09 survey of member institutions' general education assessment practices (pdf files). Part 1 focuses on common learning outcomes for all an institution's undergraduates and methods used to assess  those outcomes. Part 2 focuses on the structure of the institutions' general education programs.
• AALE's standards for accreditation of liberal-arts institutions and programs.
• An annotated list of Critical Thinking tests from CriticalThinking.net.
• Assessment resources from Florida Atlantic University.
• Assessment of Gen Ed Science Requirements.
  • 2002 ASSESS discussion-list post from Linda Suskie (then at Towson University, now at MSA-CHE).
  • Click [text/html] at the bottom of the page for a wordwrapped version.
  • The links are not "live" -- you must cut-&-paste them into your browser.
• Assessment of Writing, published by AIR. Part of AIR's series on assessment in the disciplines.
• College BASE (College Basic Academic Subjects Examination), from the University of Missouri-Columbia's Assessment Resource Center.
• Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP), from ACT.
• Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA).
• Comparing CAAP, CLA, & Proficiency Profile/MAPP: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February 2009 thread CAAP, MAPP, CLA Comparo? initiated by Erin Frew.
• Council of Writing Program Administrators
• Outcomes for first-year writing.
• Resources include "best practice" examples and a white paper on writing assessment.
• Diversity & Democracy online journal, special issue on assessing diversity and diversity-related learning outcomes.
• Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI), an online survey project from the University of Bristol (UK).
• Guidelines and methods for assessing oral communication, from the National Communication Association.
• Information literacy
  • A Framework for ICT Literacy, from ETS' International ICT Literacy Panel.
  • Bay Area Community Colleges information competency assessment instrument.
  • ETS'  iCritical Thinking certification (formerly known as the ICT Literacy Assessment and as iSkills), and recommendations for minimum standards (pdf file).
  • Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL).
  • Project SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) from Kent State University and the Association of Research Libraries. Test items are based on the ACRL standards.
• List of SACS institutions' Quality Enhancement Projects that involve teaching & assessing writing, from David Eubanks' assessment blog.
• Mathematics: see STEM disciplines, below.
• NPEC Sourcebooks on Assessment (available as pdf files):
  • Definitions and Assessment Methods for Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Writing.
  • Definitions and Assessment Methods for Communication, Leadership, Information Literacy, Quantitative Reasoning, and Quantitative Skills
  • Selected Institutions Utilizing Assessment Results.
• The Literacy of America's College Students (pdf file). Results from the National Survey of America's College Students (NSACS). From the American Institutes for Research.
• Standards for the English Language Arts, from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA).
• UniLOA (the University Learning Outcomes Assessment), a standardized instrument for critical thinking, communication, and personal-development skills.

Business/Management

• Assessment of Student Learning in Business Schools: Best Practices Each Step of the Way, published jointly by AIR and AACSB. Part of AIR's series on assessment in the disciplines.
• EBI's surveys for assessment of business/management programs.
• Individual business schools' assessment sites
• Alabama State University: College of Business Administration
• San Francisco State University: College of Business
• Seton Hall University: Stillman School of Business
• William Patterson University: Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business

• The American Chemical Society's exams in various subareas.

 Economics

• Assessing a Proficiency Based Economics Program (pdf file). This AEA presentation includes results from a national survey of economics programs' assessment activities and needs.

Engineering

• Assessment in Engineering Programs: Evolving Best Practices, published jointly by AIR and ASEE. Part of AIR's series on assessment in the disciplines.
• ABET's Assessment Planning resources.
• Assessment projects of the NSF Engineering Education Coalitions
  • SUCCEED: Outcomes Assessment Planning Guide
    • A program of the Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED)
    • Examples and planning documents from coalition institutions
    • Surveys, capstone experience, and portfolio methods used by coalition institutions
    • Resources, relevant white papers, etc.
• Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century. From ASCE. Recommended outcomes and levels of achievement from baccalaureate, masters, and prelicensure experiences.
• EBI's surveys for ABET-related assessment of engineering programs.
• Engineering Education: Assessment Methodologies and Curricula Innovation
  • Multi-campus project focusing on ABET 2000 assessment criteria.
  • Attributes include descriptions and rubrics for implementing specific outcomes associated with the ABET 2000 criteria.
  • Links to associated research projects and other assessment resources.
  • Papers & presentations by research team members.
• Fundamentals of Engineering exam.
• Individual engineering schools' assessment sites
  • North Carolina State University: College of Engineering
  • The Program Assessment Tool is restricted to NCSU faculty & staff.
  • Ohio State University: College of Engineering
  • Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI
  • University of Michigan College of Engineering

Health Sciences

• EBI's surveys for assessing nursing programs.

• Criteria for standards in history, from the American Historical Association.
• Developed for K-12 but applicable to undergraduate programs as well.

Information Literacy: see general education, above.

Languages

• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
  • Under Professional Development, select Certified Proficiency Testing Programs for information about ACTFL's programs for testing language competencies.
  • Under Publications, see the Proficiency Guidelines and the executive summary of the Standards for Foreign Language Learning for details of ACFTL's competency standards.
• Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
  
  • For comparing language-competency standards across national education systems.
  • From the Council of Europe's Directorate of Education.

Mathematics: see STEM disciplines, below.

 Philosophy

• Position paper on outcomes assessment (pdf file).
• From the American Philosophical Association.
• Includes examples of outcomes & assessment processes from individual philosophy departments.

• Resources from the American Political Science Association.
• Includes examples from individual Political Science departments.
• The book Assessment in Political Science can be purchased from the Association's website.

Psychology

• Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes (pdf file)
  • From the American Psychological Association.

 Sociology

• From the American Sociological Association
• Creating an Effective Assessment Plan for the Sociology Major (pdf file). Examples may emphasize sociology programs, but this is a general handbook with information useful to any program.
• What's Happening in Your Department With Assessment? (pdf file). Survey of departments' assessment activities.

STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics)

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the October 2009 thread Assessing Gen Ed Science Outcome initiated by Jill Hirt.
• Assessment of Student Learning in College Mathematics: Towards Improved Programs and Courses, published jointly by AIR and MAA. Part of AIR's series on assessment in the disciplines.
• Assessment in Mathematics Teaching
  • Focus is K-12 but some information, methods, references/links appropriate for college-level courses.
  • From The Math Forum at Drexel University.
• See Engineering, above.
• Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
  • Literature review from the National Research Council's Committee on Recognizing, Evaluating, Rewarding, and Developing Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology.
  • Available for purchase or to read online (see Read). 
• Rubrics for scientific reasoning &/or scientific literacy
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, select July 2009 and scroll down to the thread Rubrics for scientific reasoning/literacy, initiated by Kathryne Drezek.
• Scientific Abilities Project
  • From Rutgers University's Physics and Astronomy Education Research group.
  • Assessment tasks, rubrics for assessing scientific abilities, and presentations on assessment of scientific abilities
    (pdf files).
• Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics (SAUM)
  • Guidelines for assessment of student learning, from the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, Subcommittee on Assessment.
  • Articles and case studies (pdf files).
  • SAUM Bibliography has links to web resources and a bibliography of print resources. There's also a page of general Assessment links and one of links for Getting started in assessment.
  • FAQ about assessment.
  • A project of the Mathematical Association of America.

Teacher Education

• CEA's Teacher Education Assessment System (TEAS) and Education Program Identification Framework (EPIF). Select Software.
• EBI's surveys for assessing teacher education programs.
• ETS's PRAXIS exam.
• TEDS-M is an international study of teacher education in mathematics, from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) consortium of universities.

Technology-assisted teaching & learning

• Assessing the impact of technology-rich spaces on student learning. From NC State University.
  • FAQ about technology-assisted teaching & learning.
  • Searcheable annotated bibliography of relevant research literature.
  • Annotated links to other resources on assessing the impact of technology on student learning.
  • Still to come: Best-practice examples.
• Middle Tennessee State University's suggestions for using classroom assessment techniques to examine the impact of classroom technology.

• Assessment guidelines (pdf file) from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
• National Association of Schools of Theatre documents on assessing undergraduate and graduate programs.

Workplace readiness

• Career Readiness Certificate
  
• WorkKeys-based evaluations of key workplace skills (locating information, reading for information, & applied math).
• See The CRC Consortium for information about states and community-college systems using the CRC.
• Industrial Training Skills Assessment Tool
  
• Online multiple-choice tests for a variety of industrial skills, for self-evaluation or use by employers or training programs.
• Can also be used to develop your own online assessments.
• From the Business Industrial Network.
• Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC)
• From OECD (the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).
• An ongoing development project, not yet an active assessment process.

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Individual Institutions' Assessment-Related Pages

Alabama State Univ., College of Business Administration

• Description of COBA's Student Outcome Assessment Program (SOAP).

Alpena Community College: Student Outcomes & Assessment Committee (Michigan)

• ACC assessment plan (pdf file), including core (general education) competencies and an overview of college-wide, department, and course assessment processes.
• Department assessment plans and guidelines for course-level assessment (pdf files).
• Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).

Alverno College: Educational Research and Evaluation (Wisconsin)

• Principles of institutional and program assessment.
  
• Information about Alverno's research, publications and workshops on assessment.
  
• FAQ.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Student assessment as learning at Alverno:
  • Assessment Essentials: definitions, principles, difference between student-assessment-as-learning and institution/program assessment.
  • Self-assessment, including diagnostic digital portfolio and comments from students, external assessors, and faculty
  • Related publications and workshops.
  • There's also a brief summary of Alverno's student assessment-as-learning approach..
• Web-based Diagnostic Digital Portfolio. Enter and Demo are restricted to Alverno students, faculty, & staff.
• For context, see general information about Alverno's ability-based curriculum.

American Public University System

• Overview of assessment at APUS.
• Institutional (general education) outcomes.
• Initiatives:
  • Project to revise and clarify general-education outcomes.
  • Information about the use of standardized exams such as ETS's MAPP and Major Field Tests.
  • When last checked, the rubric matrices link led to MAPP information instead.
• Resources:
  • A glossary of assessment terms.
  • Links to other assessment resources (this page).
• Summary reports from standardized exams.

• About assessment at AU, including an online newsletter (pdf files).
• Institutional assessment
• AU assessment plan (pdf file).
• Institutional research data & links.
• Information about surveys used at AU, including some data summaries.
• Program assessment plans & implementation (pdf files). Plans are available to the public; implementation reports are restricted to AU faculty & staff.
• Individual academic departments.
• General education program.
• Some best practice examples are are implementation reports (restricted).
• Brief guidelines for program's assessment plans, an assessment reporting template (Word document), and (pdf files) template instructions and a rubric for evaluating assessment plans.
• Resources
• Guidelines and reporting instructions (see above).
• Information about on-campus workshops.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Assessment plans and reports for some academic majors (pdf files). 
• Guides for preparing assessment plans and reports (pdf files).
• Still to come: Other assessment plans & reports, and descriptions of assessment-related activities.

Andrews University: University Assessment Office (Michigan)

• Overview of assessment at Andrews.
• The test schedules include descriptions of standardized general education and major-discipline exams and a (pdf file) report of results. The report includes AU's general education outcomes.
• Resources include a Word document of assessment guidelines and (still to come) reporting templates and annual assessment reports.

Appalachian State University: Institutional Research, Assessment, & Planning (North Carolina)

• Overview of assessment at ASU.
• About assessment FAQ.
• Potential assessment data: Results from surveys of students (pdf files) and information about standardized instruments used at ASU.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Overview of assessment at ACC.
• Assessment of student learning at the program level
• Guidelines, worksheets, & reporting templates (pdf & Excel files).
• Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
• Individual academic programs' assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
• Institutional assessment (pdf files).
• The institutional effectiveness report includes results from student surveys.
• Reporting template for support & service units.
• Surveys used by support & service units.

Arizona State University: Office of University Evaluation

• Assessment
  • The assessment FAQ entries provide guidelines for planning & implementing academic outcomes assessment. (Note: The FAQ available from the menu is about OUE's web surveys, not the assessment process.)
  • Guidelines for assessment plans, with examples of program outcomes and measures.
• Assessment handbook (assessment planning workbook, pdf file).
• Surveys
  • Information about surveys of students and alumni. Results (in the graduating senior and graduate/law student report cards) are restricted to ASU faculty & staff.
• Information for students about the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA).
• Still to come: Reports from campus-wide surveys and assessments.

Arizona Western College: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Program

• General education assessment policy and outcomes, and a report (pdf file) on assessment of gen-ed outcomes.
• Examples of general education rubrics and academic programs' learning outcomes. Examples of program rubrics are Word documents.
• Information about AWC's annual academic achievement report (Word documents).
• The ACRES reporting system is restricted to AWC faculty & staff.
• Individual academic programs' achievement reports (Word documents). Note: The menu works in Internet Explorer but not in other browsers such as Firefox.
• Information about periodic program review (pdf & Excel files, Word documents) and some units' program review reports (pdf files).
• Assessment committee members and (*.rtf files) minutes.
• Resources include an online newsletter, a lesson plan template (Word document), and links to other assessment resources.

Arkansas Tech University: Institutional Research and Assessment

• FAQs
  • About assessment, for faculty and department heads.
  • Methods for collecting evidence of student learning (pdf file).
• Guidelines & instructions for the TracDat assessment-management system. (pdf files. TracDat access is restricted  to ATU faculty & staff.)
• Results from some assessment projects (pdf, Powerpoint, & Excel files).
• Guidelines & application forms for assessment mini-grants (pdf files, Word documents).
• Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
• Assessment-related reports from 2001 NCA accreditation process (pdf files).
• Links to other resources.

Auburn University: Office of Institutional Research & Assessment (Alabama)

• Soon to come: Instructions for filing assessment plans and reports.
• Assessment reports from individual academic programs (pdf files).
• The assessment council report includes NSSE and CLA results (pdf file).
• NSSE results for individual colleges (pdf files).

Augsburg College (Minnesota)

• Templates and guidelines includes the college's assessment plan and information about Augsburg's AQIP project (pdf files).
• Reports include summaries of faculty, staff, and student surveys and project updates and NCA/HLC feedback on the Action Project (pdf files).
• Sample plans and Department and program plans are restricted to Augsburg College faculty and staff.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Ball State University: Office of Academic Assessment and Institutional Research (Indiana)

• Results from surveys of students and alumni (pdf documents).
• Resources:
  • Assessment workbook: Handbook for departments designing and using assessment plans (pdf files).
  • Assessment notes: Reports from survey and student records analyses (pdf files).
  • Lending library: Tables of contents of books about assessment (pdf files).
• Information about BSU's writing competency exam.
• Current online surveys and tests.
• Statistics: Institutional research reports. Note: Department reports are restricted to BSU faculty & staff.
• Links to other resources.

• Except as noted, all documents are pdf files. Most describe the various parts of BCCC's assessment process.
• Assessment committee agendas & minutes (pdf files).
• Guidelines and an FAQ for classroom assessment (CAT), an online reporting form for CAT results, and guidelines for an assessment project for multi-section courses (CAP).
• Reports on course assessment activities (pdf files). When last checked, the 08-09 CAT Summary could be read with Internet Explorer but not with Firefox.
• General education outcomes and related senior-survey results (the 06-07 comparison is an Excel file; the 07-09 comparison is a pdf file).
• Links to information about Kansas' state-wide general education (core competency) assessment process and to resources about classroom assessment techniques.

Bergen Community College: Center for Institutional Effectiveness (New Jersey)

• Assessment
  • 2005-2006 activities includes:
  • Intended outcomes for assessment plans (Word document): Strategic planning goals and detailed outcomes for BCC core (general education) competencies. The document includes:
    • BCC's assessment plan An assessment framework (Appendix A, also available from the 2005-2006 Activities page as a separate Word document), and
    • the worksheet for reporting assessment plans and results (Appendix D).
  • A summary of assessment-related activities.
  • 2008-2010 activities
  • Assessment calendars (Word documents).
  • Reporting form and rubrics for evaluating academic and administrative/support assessment reports (Word documents).
  • BCC's assessment liaisons.
  • Compensation or released time for faculty involved in assessment activities.
• Annual report requirements (reporting templates: Excel files & Word documents).  The Key Accomplishments template (Word document) is not assessment-related.
• Materials from an on-campus workshop (pdf file).
• Assessment-related reports (pdf files).
• Many of these documents & files are also available on the Documents page. This page also includes BCC's general-education outcomes (core competencies) outcomes (Word document). Templates for details of academic and administrative/support units' assessment reports are available on the Resources page.

Binghamton University (New York)

• Major assessment
• Assessment policy (Word document).
• Guidelines for and examples of assessment plans & reports (Word documents & pdf files).
• Gen ed assessment
  • General education outcomes from BU (Word document) and the SUNY system (pdf files).
  • University policy on and guidelines for preparing gen ed course portfolios. The guidelines also describe how faculty teams use portfolios to evaluate general education outcomes (Word documents).
  • Reports from general-ed assessments (pdf files).
• Information about and from on-campus training opportunities.
• Links to assessment resources
  • Assessment newsletter (pdf files).
  • University-level assessment plans and reports (pdf and Word files).
  • Powerpoint presentations on assessment.
  • Links to other resources.

Bismarck State College (North Dakota)

• Academic assessment
• FAQ.
• General education outcomes, associated rubrics, and (pdf file) timeline.
• Reporting template for program assessment plans (Word document). TracDat access is restricted to BSC faculty & staff.
• Annual progress reports (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Reporting template for periodic department/program review (Word document).
• Still to come: Information about BSC's AQIP project.

Boise State University (Idaho)

• Assessment plans for individual academic programs (pdf files).
• Institutional Analysis, Assessment and Reporting
• Research reports from surveys, etc (pdf files).
• Department-level results from BSU's surveys of graduating seniors & alumni (pdf files).
• Links to other resources.

Borough of Manhattan Community College: Institutional Research and Assessment

• BMCC assessment plan (pdf file).
  
• Links to articles and to IEA assessment-reporting forms for academic and support units (pdf files).
• Results from student surveys (pdf files) and information about CCSSE.
• General education assessment
• General education assessment plan (pdf file) and Powerpoint presentation.
• Brochure for students about general education learning outcomes (pdf file).
• Links to related articles (pdf files).
• Resource Center
• College-wide and general-ed assessment plans (pdf files).
• General education outcomes and brochure (pdf file) for students.
• Best-practice forum: Materials from assessment workshop.
• Assessment glossary.
• Newsletter (pdf file).
• Links to related articles (pdf files) and other assessment resources.

• Project reports, studies, and instruments include outcomes, assesment methods, and survey results for a variety of general education goals (some html pages, some pdf files).

Bowling Green State University: Assessment Central (Ohio)

• University (general education) and department/program student learning outcomes.
• Rubrics for general education outcomes, links to other rubrics, and student self-assessment form.
• Reports
  • Exemplary assessment reports: examples of findings and actions taken as a result (2008 and later reports are pdf files; earlier ones are html pages).
  • Reports from individual departments and programs.
  • Guidelines for department/program reports.
  • Still to come: Assessment of Assessment: overviews and suggestions.
• Link to BGSU ePortfolio site.
• Bibliography and links to other assessment resources.

Brenau University: Office of Academic Assessment (Georgia)

• Guide to assessment at Brenau.
• Rubrics Cube online system for assessment plans & results.
• Instructions (FAQ).
• The online system itself is restricted to BU faculty & staff.
• Assessment activities at BU: 
• Overviews of university-wide assessment projects.
• Schedule (Word document) and results (pdf files) of standardized tests.
• Information about assessment day & week (pdf files).
• General education (liberal education) assessment.
• Presentation on BU's liberal education curriculum (This html version of a Powerpoint presentation is structured for Internet Explorer and does not display properly in other browsers.)
• Assessment timeline & reporting template (Word [doc & docx] documents).
• Academic, administrative, and service departments' annual assessment plans and reports. (Some are available as html or pdf documents; others are restricted to Brenau faculty & staff. You can't tell without trying.)
• The program review guide and reports are restricted to BU faculty & staff.
• Links to assessment resources and (Word [docx] documents) reporting templates.

Bridgewater State College (Massachussetts)

• Assessment guidebook, with:
  • Overview of assessment at BSC.
  • Guidelines for developing a departmental assessment plan.
  • Learning outcomes from some BSC academic programs
  • Examples of rubrics, assessment methods, & instruments in use at BSC and elsewhere. Includes links to off-campus assessment resources.
  • Glossary of asessment terms.

• Assessment plan (pdf files) and calendar.
• Core-competency (general education) curriculum maps (Excel files) and reporting templates for program- and course-level assessment plans & results (Word documents).
• Schedule of on-campus assessment workshops (Word document).
• Division assessment documents are restricted to BCC faculty & staff.
• Assessment resources include:
• Rubric to assess program- & course-level outcomes statements (Word document). 
• Guidelines for using Bloom's taxonomy (pdf file, Word document).
• Links to other assessment resources (this page, and Middle States' [pdf file] assessment handbook).

Bucknell University: Educational Outcomes Assessment (Pennsylvania)

• University assessment plan (pdf file) and overview of assessment at Bucknell.
• Templates for academic and administrative department assessment plans (pdf files)
• Sample departmental assessment plan, and several departments' plans (pdf files).
• Assessment Updates: Guides to assessment methods -- developing an assessment plan, using embedded assessment, etc. (pdf and Powerpoint documents)
• Links to assessment resources, including selected departmental assessment plans from other institutions.

Buena Vista University (Iowa)

• BVU's assessment plan.
• Annual assessment reports, restricted to BVU faculty & staff.
• Campus-wide (general education) objectives and rubrics (Word documents, Excel files). The Curriculum Overview has related information.
• Individual academic majors' objectives, assessment methods, and (Word documents) associated rubrics. Still to come: Handbooks for adjunct faculty in some disciplines, with details about assessment including discipline and course-level obectives.
• Review form (Word document) for academic majors' assessment plans & results.
• Faculty & student guides for BVU's Focus ePortfolio system (pdf files). The Focus system itself is restricted to BVU faculty, staff, & students.
  

Buffalo State College: Office of Academic Information and Assessment (New York)

• Assessment plan and history of assessment at BSC (pdf file).
• Assessment reports, including NSSE results (pdf files unless otherwise noted).
• Academic Affairs assessment, including:
• BSC principles of assessment.
• Intellectual foundations (general education) outcomes and overview of assessment process.
• Overview of assessment process for academic majors.
• Report from student satisfaction survey (pdf file).
• Assessment Matters online newsletter (pdf files), including:
• Report summaries.
• Intellectual foundations (general education) outcomes assessed during the current year.
• Assessment-related articles.
• Link to assessment resources (this site).

Butler University: Office of Institutional Research (Indiana)

• Academic assessment
• Protocol: Overview of annual assessment report and periodic academic program review, with links to program review guidelines and university-wide (general education) learning outcomes (pdf files) .
• General education (learning) outcomes (pdf file).
• Program review overview and (pdf file) guidelines.
• Assessment reporting template and reports frrom individual academic programs (Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Guidelines for administrative program review (pdf file).
• Survey reports, including NSSE results (pdf files).
• Common data set (pdf files) and academic-department statistical overviews (IR data, Excel files).

• Overview of assessment at BC.
• Resources/Data includes
• Assessment cycle, guidelines for developing student learning outcomes, and reporting templates for course- and program-level assessment (pdf file, Word documents).
• The program level resources page includes BC's general education outcomes (pdf file).
• The curriculum committee website include information about periodic program review (Word document).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• SLO Lane online newsletter (pdf files).

• Overview and history of assessment at Cabrillo.
• Core competencies (general education outcomes).
• Assessment terms & methods.
• Assessment processes & examples for courses, programs, student services, & administrative services (examples are pdf files & Word documents; reporting forms are Word documents).
• Workbooks (handbooks) for course- and program-level assessment (pdf files).
• Information about & from the assessment committee, including (pdf files) reports.
• Links to other resources.

• Assessment system 
• Overview of assessment at CLU.
• Information about periodic academic program review, including overview, schedule, handbook, and reporting template (pdf files).
• Information about & from CLU assessment symposia (pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Learning outcomes
• Institutional (general education) learning outcomes and associated rubrics (pdf files, Word document).
• Learning outcomes from individual academic programs (pdf files, Word documents).
• Sources of evidence for achievement of learning outcomes:
• Rubrics & assessment results for communication, critical thinking, & information literacy outcomes (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
• Student satisfaction, NSSE, & FSSE results (pdf & Excel files, Word documents, html pages).
• Guidelines on writing learning outcomes and incorporating them in course syllabi (Word documents; also see the curriculum maps).
• Curriculum maps from some academic programs (html pages, Poweerpoint files, Word documents).
• The data warehouse is restricted to CLU faculty & staff.
• Resources include:
• Material from on-campus workshops about assessment and program review (pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Assessment tools including a glossary, a template for reporting assessment results (Word document), guidelines for and examples of assessment rubrics (Word documents), and links to other resources.
• Information about surveys at CLU.

California Polytechnic State University

• Assessment planning guide and glossary.
• University (general education) learning objectives.
• Assessment activities by academic program (pdf files).
• Other Resources: guidelines and rubrics (pdf files).
• Links to college-level assessment councils, CSU system-level assessment information, and to other assessment resources.

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona: Program Review

• Guidelines & policies for program review and outcomes assessment (pdf files).
• University (general education) learning goals.
• Individual academic programs' learning outcomes and assessment approaches (pdf files; scroll down past the "template" sections for program details).
• Assessment tools
• Guidelines for an assessment plan (pdf file).
• Examples of individual programs' assessment methods and tools (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources and information about local assessment training events.
• General education assessment
• General education assessment policy (pdf file, Word documents) and guide for course-based general education assessment proposals (pdf file).
• Learning outcomes for individual general education areas, and assessment plans for some areas (pdf files).
• Links to Powerpoint presentations on general education assessment and to rubrics (pdf files) for some general-education outcomes.
• Institutional assessment: Reports from surveys of students and alumni, including NSSE and CLA results (pdf and Excel files).
• Student Affairs "phantom shopper" assessment reports (pdf files) and forms (Word documents).

California State University System: Accountability Process

• Biennial reports (pdf files, through 2006) include outcomes assessment overviews for each CSU campus.
• Scroll down for an overview of the process, definitions of the performance areas and reporting elements, and other descriptive documents (pdf files).
• Note: See the individual entries for notes on assessment at each campus: Cal Poly, Cal Poly-Pomona, CSU-Bakersfield, Chico, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego State, San Francisco State, San Jose State, San Marcos, Sonoma State, and Stanislaus.

California State University, Bakersfield: Assessment Center

• Institutional improvement proposal and assessment services plan (pdf files).
• Reports (CSUB mission, goals, and objectives repository) includes outcomes and assessment reports from academic departments and the general education program. Follow the links for each program to see if its information is available online.
• Report from survey of faculty, administrators, and students about general education outcomes for CSUB (pdf file).
• Still to come: Resources and Support links to other assessment resources.
• CSUB's College Portrait data are available from the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment.

California State University, Chico

• CSUC assessment philosophy.
• Guidelines for developing and implementing outcomes assessment plans.
• Assessment glossary.
• FAQ about assessment at CSUC.
• Toolbox and Resources: More guidelines and examples for developing assessment processes (Word documents; pdf, Excel, and Powerpoint files).
• Examples of learning outcomes and asssessment activities from individual academic units (Word documents and Excel-file course*outcomes alignment matrices).
• Individual academic departments' program portfolios, with learning outcomes and (pdf files) assessment plan and curriculum matrix.
• General education assessment
• Core (general education) learning outcomes & associated rubrics (pdf files).
• Results from some general education assessments, and meta-analysis overview (pdf files).
• Office of Institutional Research
• Information about periodic academic program review (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
• CSUC's College Profile and reports (html pages & pdf files) from NSSE and graduating student surveys.
• Links to other assessment resources.

California State University, Dominguez Hills

• Assessment committee progress reports. The assessment review includes information on individual academic programs. (Word documents.)
• Results from survey of academic program heads about program assessment at CSUDH (Word documents, see USLOA Committee / Reports and Summaries).
• Links to assessment resources.

California State University, East Bay

• Assessment responsibilities at CSUEB (pdf file).
• General education and disciplinary majors' learning outcomes and assessment methods (pdf files and Word documents).
• Academic programs' assessment plans (pdf files, Word documents, and html pages).
• Assessment reports from the College of Business and Economics (pdf files).
• General education assessment reports (pdf files).
• Chapters 2 & 3 in CSUEB's WASC educational effectiveness review overview the university's assessment activities (pdf files).

California State University, Fresno: Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning

• Student outcomes assessment projects (SOAPS) policy, overview, and examples. Individual programs' SOAPS are Word documents and pdf files.
• Assessment Guide online handbook. Internal links go to html pages and pdf files.
• Glossary of assessment terms.
• Rubrics for general education outcomes, and recommendations for using rubrics.
• Descriptions of assessment and survey methods (most are pdf files).
• Current faculty projects funded by campus assessment grants and RFP information (pdf files) for new grants.
• Effectiveness: Examples of using assessment results for program improvement (html pages, pdf files).
• Research & Reports / Reports, Surveys & Studies include CLA and NSSE results and analyses (pdf files).
• Information about academic program review.
• Links to other assessment resources (on the main page and in Assessment Help).

 California State University, Long Beach: Program Assessment and Review Council

• Assessment policy, reporting templates, and FAQ (html page,  pdf file, Word documents).
• Resources
• Assessment glossary.
• Assessment bibliography (Word document).
• Information about CSULB's "assessment talent bank" of faculty who serve as campus assessment consultants (pdf files).
• Reports from individual assessment projects (Word and rtf documents, pdf files).
• Examples of academic programs' outcomes, assessment plans, & reports (pdf files, Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Information about regional & national assessment conferences.
• Information about the CSU System's accountability process, and CSULB's strategic planning accountability goals, progress reports (pdf file), and reports from some academic programs (html page,  pdf file, Word & rtf documents).
• FAQ (Word [docx] documents).

California State University, Los Angeles

• University assessment policy and plan (pdf files).
• Individual academic programs' learning outcomes.
• Graph showing % of programs that report using assessment for program improvement (pdf file).
• Reports: Results from student surveys and standardized exams, including CLA and NSSE results (pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Tools & resources: Rubrics for general education outcomes, templates & examples for developing and reporting assessment plans (pdf & rtf files).
• Information about campus assessment grants (pdf file, scroll down for RFP details).
• General education
• Learning goals and outcomes.
• Assessment policy and plan.
• Program review report (pdf file).
• Report on general education assessment (Word document, Excel file).
• Reports from older general education assessment projects (some html files, some pdf files).
• Information about periodic academic program review.
• Institutional research
• CSULB's College Portrait.
• More NSSE & survey reports (pdf files). 
• Educational effectiveness council meeting minutes (pdf files).

California State University, Northridge: Office of Academic Assessment and Program Review

• Provost's statement on assessment at CSUN.
• Academic assessment
• Student learning outcomes for individual academic programs and (pdf file) general education learning goals & outcomes.
• Glossary (Word document).
• Articles on disciplinary perspectives on assessment (pdf files, Word documents).
• Reporting forms and guides (Word documents).
• Information from the CSUN assessment committee (Word [docx] documents).
• Information about periodic program review (pdf files, Word [doc, docx] documents).

California State University, Sacramento

• Overview of academic-program assessment and assessment cycle, and university assessment statement (pdf file) and policy.
• Individual academic programs' assessment plans and reports. Some of these documents are html pages, some are pdf files. (The academic program portfolios, which include some of the same information, were not available when last checked and appear to have been replaced by the institutional assessment portfolio.)
• Office of Academic Program Assessment
• University-level learning outcomes (html pages, pdf & mht files, Word documents; mht files require Internet Explorer).
• The institutional assessment portfolio includes links to academic programs' assessment plans & reports and annual summaries (pdf files) of assessment reports.
• Assessment tools include
• An assessment manual (pdf file).
• Rubrics for evaluating assessment plans.
• Reporting formats, guidelines, and summary (Word documents).
• Online newsletter (pdf files).
• Assessment strategies and Assessment beyond Sacramento State: Links to assessment-related documents and resources.
• General education
• Overview and guidelines for general education assessment at Sacramento State.
• General education learning goals and detailed outcomes.
• Assessment glossary.
• On-campus assessment-related events and workshops.
• Assessment report formats (Word document).
• Links to other assessment resources
• Office of Institutional Research
• Sacramento State's College Portrait (pdf file).
• Reports on special academic programs.
• Surveys used at Sacramento State. Reports has results from surveys of students and faculty, including NSSE results (pdf files).
• Information about assessment of Student Affairs and other non-academic programs.

California State University: San Bernardino

• Assessment policies, history, definitions, and guidelines.
• Guidelines for evaluating departmental assessment plans and status reports.
• Departmental assessment plans, methods, progress, and effects (some pdf files, some html pages).
• Departmental status reports (pdf files).
• General education goals and objectives, and information about assessment of general education at CSUSB.
• Information about assessment mini-grants.
• Links to other assessment resources.

California State University, San Marcos

• Annual assessment
• Reporting templates for assessment plans and reports (Word documents).
• Mini-grant request form (Word document).
• Learning outcomes for individual programs and links to related material from the resources page (see below).
• Departments' program portfolios include learning outcomes, assessment plans, and reports. (Plans & reports are pdf files.)
• Information about academic program review: 
• Guidelines & examples (pdf files, Word documents).
• Departments' review status (Excel files) and program portfolios.
• Resources include:
• Program review FAQ and (Excel files) timeline & course*outcomes matrix template.
• Material from on-campus workshop (Powerpoint and audiovisual files).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Minutes and reports from CSUSM's assessment committee (Word documents).
• Results from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE data (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).

California State University, Stanislaus: Office of Assessment and Quality Assurance

• Overview and principles of assessment at CSUS.
• Flowchart of assessment processes at CSUS (pdf file).
• University-wide assessments and process: National & local surveys and exams (pdf files).
• Additional details, and information about periodic program review for academic and support units, and about surveys used by some individual academic programs, is available from CSUS's Institutional ePortfolio. Most documents are pdf files.
• Assessment resources:
• pdf documents with:
• An assessment workbook (handbook).
• An annotated bibliography of assessment materials in the university library.
• An assessment glossary.
• Links to other assessment resources (this page).
• Information about assessment grants (pdf files).
• Related links include
• Assessment of student learning, with:
• Program-level assessment reports (Word documents).
• Assessment principles.
• Links to many of the documents mentioned above.
• General education outcomes, assessment processes, and reports (pdf file).
• The Office of Institutional Research site, with CSUS's College Portrait (pdf file).

• Overview of CU institutional effectiveness and program assessment processes.
• PQIR (Program Quality Improvement Report) Powerpoint presentations from individual academic programs include learning outcomes, assessment methods, results, and impacts.
• Assessment tools: Guidelines for developing & reporting assessment plans (pdf files).
• Program review schedule (Excel file).

• Guidelines for developing & implementing outcomes assessment processes.
• These are general guidelines, applicable to assessing academic programs, individual courses, and individual students.

• Overview of assessment at Cañada. (The SLOAC Philosophy is a pdf file.)
• Institutional (general education) student learning outcomes (SLOs).
• Still to come: SLOs & assessments from individual academic programs and some administrative & support units. (The Sharepoint website is restricted to Cañada faculty & staff.)
• Worksheets & reporting forms (most are Word [.doc & .docx] documents).
• Information about & from the assessment committee (Word [.docx] documents).
• Updates
• Still to come: FAQ.
• Online newsletter (pdf files).
• Information about & from a campus session on assessment processes & results (pdf file, Word [.docx] document).
• Events: Information about & from on-campus assessment-related events (pdf and audio-visual [.swf] files, Word [.docx] documents, links).
• Links to assessment resources.
• Still to come: Assessment handbook.

Capital Community College (Connecticut)

• CCC policy & general procedures for assessment.
• Templates for reporting course and program goals, outcomes, & assessment methods (pdf files).
• General education goals, assessment methods, and results (some html pages, some pdf files).
• Overviews, guidelines, & suggestions (some html pages, some pdf files, some Powerpoint files).
• The  institutional assessment portfolio is restricted to CCC faculty & staff.
• Assessment committee members and minutes.

• Guidelines and tips for developing assessment processes (html pages, Word documents, Powerpoint files).
• CPCC core competencies (general education outcomes).
• Rubrics for general education and major-displine outcomes (most are Word documents; some pdf files). Includes course*outcomes alignment worksheets (Word documents).
• General education initiatives from some student support services (pdf files).
• CPCC's accountability reports to the North Carolina Community College System include student survey and progress data (Word documents & Powerpoint presentation.)

• Program information: individual academic programs' student outcomes, and status of program assessment plans.
• Documents/forms include:
• University assessment policy (pdf file) and assessment overview.
• Templates & forms for assessment plans and reports (Word documents).
• Rubric for evaluating assessment plans (pdf file).
• Shared vocabulary: brief glossary of assessment terms (pdf file).
• Information about academic program review (Word documents and pdf files).
• Application for assessment mini-grants (pdf file).
• Resources include:
• Toolkit: Guidelines and tips for developing and implementing assessment plans (Word documents & pdf files).
• Assessment resources available in CMU's library
• Links to assessment resources.
• The assessment team site is restricted to CMU faculty & staff.
• Help: Materials from on-campus workshops (most are pdf files).
• About WEAVEonline at CMU. (WEAVE access is restricted to CMU faculty & staff.)
• Information from and about assessment committees at CMU (agendas & minutes are pdf files).

Chandler-Gilbert Community College (Arizona)

• History of assessment at CGCC (Word document).
• Goals of the Student Learning Outcomes Assessment project (SLOAC). Agendas & minutes are restricted to CGCC faculty & staff.
• General education student learning outcomes and information (Word documents) about funding for summer assessment projects..
• CGCC outcomes assessment
• Assessment plans & reports, including One Good Question instructions & reports (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
• Instructional goals (Word documents).
• Assessment newsletters (Word documents).
• Examples of assessment assignments and rubrics (pdf files).
• Summary reports for the Maricopa County CC District and NCA-HLC (pdf files).

• Overview and principles of assessment at Chapman, and responsibilities of the assessment committee.
• Starter kit guidelines for developing & implementing an assessment plan (Excel file).
• Assessment library and links to other assessment resources.

• Overview of assessment at CNU, including academic and administrative units' annual assessment reviews, periodic program review, and assessment of the general education program. The assessment committee's evaluation policy and review rubrics are pdf files.
• CNU "good assessment practice" examples. Results has examples of using assessment results for improvement.
• News and Updates includes information about submitting assessment plans and reports. Access to the online reporting system is restricted to CNU faculty & staff.
• Forms has instructions & examples for CNU's online assessment reporting system (pdf files). The reporting system itself is restricted to CNU faculty & staff.
• Links to assessment resources
• Still to come: FAQ and assessment tips.

• Assessment process and plan
• Overview of assessment at CSCC, and (pdf file) annual summary report.
• Reporting form for academic programs, and instructions (pdf files).
• Common learning outcomes (CORE)
• Core (general education) outcomes and (pdf files) rubrics & examples.
• Examples of assessment methods and results.
• Individual degree programs' learning outcomes, assessment reports (pdf files), and summaries of methods & results.
• Brief descriptions of some institution-wide (non-academic) programs. Some include assessment methods & results.
  

Clemson University: Office for Institutional Assessment (South Carolina)

• Assessment practices
• Reference materials include guidelines for developing and reporting an assessment plan, instructions for using WEAVEOnline, and an overview of Clemson's process for reviewing assessment plans & reports (pdf files). 
• Overview and schedule for the Annual Assessment Record reporting process. 
• Guidelines for assessment of centers and institutes (pdf files).
• Accountability and institutional effectiveness reports to state agencies (pdf files).
• News & memorandums about the Assessment Record process (pdf files).
• Information about and from the university assessment committee. Reports & minutes are pdf files.
• Clemson's College Portrait (pdf file).
• Access to and instructions for WEAVEOnline. (Access is restricted to Clemson faculty & staff.)
• Information about NSSE & MAPP, and a (pdf file) summary of Clemson's recent NSSE results. 
• Clemson's interim report to SACS includes some assessment information.
• Assessment presentations by OIA staff (pdf files).

Cleveland State University: Student Learning Assessment (Ohio)

• Overview and FAQ for assessment at CSU, and university policies and procedures for assessment.
• Calendar of assessment activities and events.
• Assessment Council minutes and on-campus events (Word documents).
• Assessment reports from individual academic, administrative, and support programs (pdf files).
• General education assessment plan and Powerpoint presentation.
• Resources
  • Report guidelines & formats.
  • Examples of individual units' assessment reports (pdf files).
  • Links to assessment resources.
• Information about assessment mini-grants and grant-funded projects.

• Overview of assessment at CCU.
• Guidelines for annual assessment reports. (The Assessment Plan Composer, the Committee Assessment Planner, and the Executive Summary are restricted to CCU faculty & staff.)
• Accountability and institutional effectiveness reports to the SC Commission on Higher Education (pdf files).
• The VSA report (pdf file) includes results from the College Senior Survey (CSS) and information about standardized tests used at CCU.

• Assessment & planning
• Information booklet (pdf file) with overview of CC's assessment process, calendar, and reporting templates & examples.
• Assessment plans & reports from individual academic programs and administrative & support units (mostly Word & rtf documents, some pdf and image files).
• Reporting template for annual action (strategic) plan (rtf document).
• Surveys
• Overview of CC's survey activity.
• Calendar of national and local surveys.
• Survey library: Information about and results from surveys (html pages & pdf files).
• Accountability and institutional effectiveness reports to the SC Commission on Higher Education (pdf files).

• Philosophy of assessment at CSM.
• Assessment plan (Word document).
• Student learning outcomes
• General education outcomes.
• Course-level outcomes from some CSM degree programs (pdf files) and outcomes for some certificate programs.
• Outcomes from some student and instructional support units (pdf files).
• Resources include:
• Reporting matrices (pdf files).
• Guidelines, handouts, and handbooks (pdf files; some were not available when last checked).
• Links to other assessment resources.

College of William & Mary: Office of Institutional Analysis & Effectiveness (Virginia)

• Program reviews
• PIE (Process of Institutional Effectiveness) framework for outcomes assessment at W&M.
• The PIE database includes outcomes and assessment methods for academic programs and administrative/support units.
• Process & schedules for periodic program reviews (pdf files).
• General education requirements, learning expectations (outcomes), and information about W&M's course-portfolio review process.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Coker College: Assessment ASAP (South Carolina)

• Assessing the Elephant: Coker College's general education assessment process, with an extended general discussion of outcomes assessment (pdf file).
• Institutional Effectiveness Manual (Word document) including assessment guidelines and examples.
• Assessment presentations (Powerpoint files).
• A link to the openIGOR assessment-management program, developed at Coker College.
• Note: Be cautious about downloading the Word document "The Well-Intentioned Commissar." The link may attempt to install Microsoft Office even if another version of Office is already on your computer.

College of Wooster (Ohio)

• Annual assessment report template (Word document) & examples (pdf files).
• Academic departments
• Individual programs' assessment plans (pdf files, html pages).
• Table of assessment methods used by CW programs (pdf file).
• Process and guidelines for periodic curricular review of academic programs (pdf file).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• General education
• Assessment plans & reports for some general education outcomes (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Academic Affairs
• Assessment guidelines (handbook, pdf file).
• Assessment plans for some AA programs (pdf files).
• Overview of Student Life assessment at CW (Powerpoint file).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Online newsletter (pdf files).
• Information about assessment in special academic projects. Assessment briefs are restricted to CW faculty & staff.
• Information about & from the assessment committee (pdf files).

• Information from PRISM (Program Improvement Research) database of projects, methods, and results. Select a pathway or a question for links to information about:
• University assessment & continuous-improvement policies & practices.
• Academic and administrative units' goals, outcomes, & assessment methods.
• Assessment results and impacts.
• Links go to database search screens, to html pages, and to pdf and Powerpoint files. There's lots of detail, but you have to search for it.

Columbus State Community College (Ohio)

• CSCC assessment plan and handbook (pdf files).
• Assessment toolbox
• FAQ and other resources.
• Glossary.
• Forms for reporting and reviewing assessment plans (pdf files).
• General education and degree program learning outcomes.
• Rubrics for general education outcomes.
• Roles of various assessment committees. Committee minutes are mostly Word documents.

• Overview of CCA assessment plan.
• General education (lifelong skills) outcomes and rubrics (rubrics are Word documents & Excel files).
• The FAQ includes links to the lifelong skills rubrics and to (Word document) templates for reporting assessment plans and progress.
• Assessment plans from individual academic programs (Word documents).
• Assessment committee minutes (Word and Word2007 [.docx] documents).
• Faculty development resources include reporting templates (Word documents), examples of assessment plans (Word documents), and a video about CCA's lifelong skills outcomes.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)

• CCBC's assessment philosophy. The learning outcomes assessment booklet (pdf file) is CCBC's assessment handbook.
• General education assessment
• Overview. 
• The pdf file Assessing General Education includes goals for the general education program. The program-level assessment page (see below) has CCBC's core competencies (general education outcomes).
• Checklist and rubric for assessment projects and some project reports (pdf files).
• Resources for and examples of course assessment projects (pdf files).
• Overview of and resources for program assessment projects for program and core-competency outcomes, and reports from some projects (pdf files).
• Institution assessment includes an overview and a report on assessment of a faculty development project (pdf file).
• Information about and from CCBC's assessment and general-education committees (mostly pdf files).

Concordia College: Office of Assessment (Minnesota)

• The institutional information documents are restricted to Concordia faculty & staff.
• Information for students
• About assessment at Concordia.
• The newsletter is restricted to Concordia students, faculty, & staff.
• Information for faculty
• The core and departmental assessment summary is restricted to Concordia faculty & staff.
• Concordia's assessment plan (pdf files).
• Resources include
• FAQ.
• Information from the assessment committee, including a rubric used to evaluate assessment plans.
• Application for assessment grants (Word document) and a list of recent grant projects.
• Bibliography and links to other assessment resources.

Cornerstone University (Michigan)

• Note: Some of this site's pdf files are large and load slowly.
• University assessment plan and institutional assessment reports (pdf files & Word [doc, docx] documents).
• The Focused Visit Report includes descriptions of and results from university-wide and program-level assessments (pdf file).
• Results from campuswide surveys (Word documents).
• Forms for assessment planning & reporting (pdf files).
• News includes a list of standardized instruments used at CU. Note: These were not live links when last checked.

Dakota State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment

• Academic assessment program
• Brief history of assessment at DSU.
• General education: 
• Plans for assessing system-wide and DSU-specific general education outcomes, and assessment results & impacts (Word [docx] documents).
• System-wide and DSU policies governing general education assessment.
• Assessment in the major
• Plans for assessing undergraduate & graduate programs' outcomes, and assessment results & impacts (Word [docx] documents).
• Policies governing discipline-specific assessment in undergraduate and graduate programs.
• Student assessment activities: Information for students about standardized instruments used for general education and major-field assessment.
• Information about & from periodic program reviews (Word [doc, docx] documents).
• Information about and from DSU's Academic Quality Improvement Project (AQIP) includes assessment results and impacts (pdf files, Word [docx] documents).
• Institutional research 
• Results from surveys of students, alumni, and faculty, including NSSE data (pdf and Excel files).
• DSU's College Portrait.
• Other institutional research data. Access to the dashboard is restricted to DSU faculty & staff.
• Institutional effectiveness: College and unit-level strategic planning (pdf files, Word documents).

Dalton State College: Office of Institutional Research & Planning (Georgia)

• Institutional effectiveness includes information about assessment at DSC (pdf files):
• Overview of assessment and institutional effectiveness processes.
• Planning and evaluation of educational programs: Guidelines & reporting forms for assessment plans & reports.
• "Closing the loop" assessment-impacts summary and unit reports on changes & improvements.
• Procedures for evaluation & assessment of administrative & support units.
• The appendices include individual units' surveys and assessment instruments, and a checklist for faculty assessment activities.
• Results from surveys of students, alumni, employers, faculty, staff (pdf files).
• SACS self-study report. See Section 3: Institutional Effectiveness (pdf files).
• Facts & figures: DSC factbook, etc.
• When last checked, the links did not include assessment  resources.

Dartmouth College: Office of Institutional Research (New Hampshire)

• Assessment resources: Some pages include presentations and worksheets (pdf files and Word documents) and links to other Dartmouth assessment resources.
• Assessment glossary.
• Designing assessment plans and developing outcomes statements.
• Methodology toolkits.
• Developing surveys.
• Reporting assessment results.
• Links to other resources and reports.

Delaware Valley College (Pennsylvania)

• Overview and history of assessment at DVC, and the college assessment plan. The compendium of best works is a brief overview of assessment activities.
• Institutional (general education) outcomes.
• Tips and help for developing assessment plans.
• Still to come: The individual academic departments' assessment profiles were not active when last checked.
• Assessment books and articles available in the DVC library, and links to other assessment resources.

• Assessment of Student Learning Committee
• Still to come: The committee agendas, minutes, bylaws, and schedule, and assessment-related forms were not available when last checked.
• Glossary: Common language of assessment.
• Reports include a timeline and a diagram of DMC's assessment process (pdf files).
• Institutional Research and Effectiveness
• Calendars and guidelines for periodic reviews of instructional and student services programs (pdf files). 
• The guidelines include suggestions for assessment processes.
• The instructional program reviews page also includes reports from student surveys.
• Institutional effectiveness
• Assessment plans and reports from individual academic and support programs (pdf files).
• Guides (pdf files) and an online demo for the WEAVEonline assessment-management system. (Access to WEAVE is restricted to Del Mar faculty & staff.)
• Special reports include results from student surveys (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Assessment plan and implementation diagram (pdf files).
• Guidelines for developing program learning outcomes and principles of good assessment pracice (pdf files).
• Learning outcomes for individual academic programs (pdf files).
• Information about the academic assessment committee (pdf files).

DePaul University: Office for Teaching, Learning & Assessment (Illinois)

• Overview of assessment at DPU.
• Overviews of department/program and school/college assessment processes.
• Links to resources for classroom assessment and rubrics.
• Templates for assessment reports (Word documents). Reports from individual units are restricted to DPU faculty & staff.
• Links to other assessment resources.

DePauw University (Indiana)

• Guidelines for departmental review include outcomes assessment requirements.
• Links to assessment resources.

• Overview and timeline.
• Faculty Senate policy statement on outcomes assessment at DVC (pdf file).
• Guidelines for outcomes assessment (pdf files). The Step-by-Step Guide is a summary with a sample assessment report. The DVC Guidelines is a handbook and includes policy statements and implementation details.
• Reporting templates and guidelines (pdf files).
• Online newsletter (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• The university assessment plan (pdf file) includes a history of assessment at DU, lists of assessment measures used, rubrics used to evaluate assessment plans and reports, a glossary, and reporting and assessment-committee evaluation forms.
• Academic programs' assessment plans and activities (html pages, pdf files).
• The committee's rubric for evaluation of assessment reports, and feedback to individual academic programs.
• Data includes results from surveys of students, alumni, and faculty, including NSSE and FSSE data (some HTML pages, some Excel files). SIR II (student evaluation of instruction & faculty) departmental summaries are pdf files.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Timelines and templates for reporting outcomes, assessment plans, and assessment progress, and rubric for evaluating assessment plans (Word documents).
• General education assessment plan and reports and some course-based common core reports to the New Mexico Department of Higher Education (Word & rtf documents).
• Individual programs' student learning outcomes, assessment plans, and reports (Word & rtf documents).
• Presentations on program assessment from DACC assessment teas (Powerpoint files).
• Toolbox:
• Assessment Primer (handbook, pdf file).
• Brief language of assessment glossary (Word document).
• Rubrics for assessing general education outcomes (Word documents).
• Guidelines for creating writing assignments and student assessment of assignments (Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Assessment newsletter (pdf files).
• DACC reports from New Mexico Higher Education Assessment Association meetings (Word documents).
• DACC's HLC self-study (pdf file).

• About DU's assessment process (pdf file).
• Forms for assessment plans and reports (Word documents).
• Guidelines for periodic academic program review (pdf file).
• Academic Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee
• DU assessment plan.
• Instructions, forms, & examples for reporting assessment plans and results (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
• FAQ.
• Dimensions of a DU Education: General education goals & outcomes.
• Information about assessment mini-grants.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Eastern Connecticut State University: University Assessment Committee

• Overview of assessment and FAQ.
• Assessment methods used by ECSU academic departments.
• ECSU faculty members' assessment-related presentations (pdf files).
• On-campus and regional assessment-related events.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Still to come: ECSU assessment plan.

Eastern Illinois University

• University assessment plan and graduate-program assessment policy (pdf files).
• Minutes from faculty committee on assessing student learning (CASL; the minutes are Word documents).
• Process for assessment in the major, with
  • individual departments' assessment plans and reports, and summary form for submitting plans/reports (pdf files, Word documents).
  • department's surveys, rubrics, and other assessment instruments (pdf files, Word documents).
  • Primary Trait Analysis rubric for evaluating department's progress developing and using outcomes assessment (Word document).
  • Undergraduate and graduate assessment reports summarize assessment activities (pdf files).
• On-line assessment newsletter (pdf files).
• General education goals and information about EIU's electronic writing portfolio, speaking across the curriculum program, and use of the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. (The goals are listed near the top of the EIU assessment home page. Some of the information about specific projects is in pdf files; some is in Word or rtf documents.)
• Alumni survey results (pdf files).
• Information about the Provost's Award for academic departments' achievement in academic assessment (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Eastern Kentucky University: Institutional Effectiveness

• Assessment of student learning
• Guidelines and templates for departments' assessment plans and reports (Word documents and pdf files). The plans & reports themselves were not available when last checked.
• Guidelines and rubrics for general education assessment (Word documents and pdf files).
• Information about assessment components of  EKU's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) on undergraduates' critical & creative thinking. The plan & reports were not available when last checked.
• University assessment: Information about EKU's use of NSSE results. The results themselves were not available when last checked..
• Information from the University Assessment Committee (pdf files).
• Information about using TracDat to organize assessment information (pdf files). TracDat access is restricted to EKU faculty & staff.
• Information about assessment mini-grants and EKU "best-practice" examples (pdf files).
• Resources include:presentations on developing an assessment plan (pdf files), an online newsletter (pdf files), and links to other assessment resources.

Eastern New Mexico University: Assessment Resource Office

• Resources for faculty, including an assessment manual and information about assessment instruments used at ENMU. (Note: Most of the links to further information about individual instruments did not work when last checked.)
• Resources for students, including  information about assessment instruments used at ENMU (pdf files).
• Assessment data: The DATAWave, a campus newsletter about assessment activities and results (pdf files). Note: the descriptive paragraph says the archive only goes through Spring 2005, but it did include more recent issues when last checked.
• Assessment procedures, rubrics, & results for some individual general education courses (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• History of assessment at ECC, including Powerpoint files from on-campus workshops. (Also some pdf files & Word documents).
• Assessment committee agendas & minutes (Word documents).
• Working definitions (glossary of assessment terms).
• Core competencies (draft general education outcomes).
• Student services learning outcomes.
• Reporting forms and worksheets for learning outcomes & assessment plans, with examples (Word documents).
• Progress reports on assessment at ECC (Word documents).
• Resources include
• ECC outcomes assessment handbooks (Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Overview of institution-wide assessment activities. The examples are results from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE results (pdf file).
• Overview of department-level assessment, including how assessment results inform department & institution planning.

Emporia State University: Assessment and Teaching Enhancement Center (Kansas)

• Program-level assessment: See program assessment of student learning (PASL) reporting plan/template and example (Word documents) and older assessment reports (html pages).
• Policy on general education competency exams and information about the CAAP.
• Information from the assessment committee (older minutes & agendas are html pages; newer ones are Word documents). Selected handouts are pdf files..
• Information about assessment mini-grants and assessment forum poster sessions ((Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Erie Community College (New York)

• In each academic division, choose individual programs to see program competencies expected upon graduation. For some programs, these are included in the program goals.

Estrella Mountain Community College: Student Academic Achievement Committee (Arizona)

• Overview of assessment at EMCC.
• Abilities matrix (general education outcomes).
• Information about the EZ online process for reorting assessment activities. The EZ process itself is restricted to EMCC faculty & staff.
• Presentation at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) conference (video [wmv] file).

Ferris State University (Michigan)

• Overview of academic program review and assessment at FSU.
• Assessment plan and calendar.
• Support
• FSU programs to support & assist assessment activities, including mini-grants (html pages, pdf files).
• Guidelines for writing learning outcomes (pdf file).
• Glossary.
• Information about using TracDat (pdf files; TracDat access is restricted to FSU faculty & staff).
• Also see areas of faculty expertise.
• Strategies and resources for developing and implementing outcomes assessment processes (html pages, pdf files).
• Strategies for academic program assessment and information about periodic academic program review.
• Academic profiles: General education assessment at FSU
• General education outcomes and assessment plan.
• Academic Profile (Proficiency Profile/MAPP) description and reports (the 02-03 report is a pdf file; the others are html pages).
• Other general education assessments used at FSU.
• NSSE results (pdf files).
• Programs' yearly administrative reviews include summaries of outcomes assessment methods and results. The "sample YARs" are pdf files. The reporting form is a Word document.
• Sharing our learning: Material from on-campus workshops and faculty reports from assessment conferences (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Student Affairs' assessment plan, summary reports (pdf files), and survey data (pdf files).

• Overview of assessment at FAMU.
• FAQ.
• Annual assessment reports describe FAMU's assessment process and summarize institution-wide assessment activities & results and assessment activities in academic and administrative units (recent reports are pdf files, older ones are mostly Word documents).
• Individual degree programs' academic learning compacts (ALCs) include learning outcomes and assessment methods (Word documents).
• Assessment communications:
• Reports on assessment activities & status (annual reports are pdf files; institutional and ALC reports are Word documents & Excel files).
• Newsletter (pdf files, Word documents).
• Policies & procedures for assessment activities (Word documents).
• Minutes from institution-wide and general-education assessment committees (Word documents).
• Assessment tools include:
• Templates, examples, and documentation for reporting assessment plans and results (Word documents & Powerpoint presentations) and status reports on assessment reporting (Excel files).
• Inventory of assessment methods in use at FAMU (Excel files & Word documents), and login for online graduating-seniors survey.
• Instruments includes access (for FAMU students) to online surveys, Word documents with other surveys, and (pdf files) NSSE results.
• Presentations from on-campus workshops (Powerpoint & pdf files).
• Guidelines & forms for periodic program review and discipline-specific accreditation (pdf & Excel files).
• FAMU's strategic plan and related information (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Florida Atlantic University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis

• Academic Learning Compacts have academic programs' content-based and general education student learning goals (pdf files).
• The Assessment Database is restricted to FSU faculty and staff.
• Assessment resources has extensive links to other assessment resources.
• FAQ. Also see the guidelines for compliance with SACS requirements and the assessment reporting schedule.
• General education outcomes.
• Links to resources about rubrics.
• Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf file, Word document).
• Information about & from periodic academic program review (Word & rtf documents). The  reporting matrix is a pdf file.
• Results from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE results (html pages, pdf & Powerpoint files).

• Faculty classroom assessment projects
• Information about FSC's online LOEP (learning outcomes enhancement plan) tool (online video, Powerpoint file).
• Implementation packet (Word documents) with guidelines and reporting templates for classroom-based assessment of student learning outcomes.
• Materials from on-campus workshops include guidelines, examples, and links to other assessment resources (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents, html pages).
• General education assessment
• General education outcomes.
• Training materials & reports (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents, html pages).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Workforce program assessment
• Guidelines & planning template (pdf files), and rubric for evaluating assessment plans (Word document).
• Planning guide (handbook; links to chapters are in the left-hand menu). Chapters link to pdf & Word documents.
• Still to come: Completed planning documents.
• Resources for Student Affairs assessment.

• Overview diagram of FGCU assessment process.
• Timelines and policy documents (pdf files).
• Summary of Florida State University system academic learning compact (ALC) process (pdf file).
• Learning outcomes for individual academic programs (a large pdf file).
• Academic units' assessment plans. (Note: These were not available when last checked.)
• Administrative units' assessment plans (mht files will open in Internet Explorer but may not open in other browsers).
• Information about surveys in use at FGCU and tips for designing and using surveys, and reports (pdf files) from various FGCU surveys.
• External assessments: Reports from institution-wide surveys, including NSSE results (pdf files, Powerpoint presentations).
• Resources:
• Timelines (pdf files) and Powerpoint presentations on FGCU's assessment process.
• Annual strategic planning reports (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Florida Institute of Technology: Office of Institutional Planning and Effectiveness

• Definitions of key assessment terms, and Q&A about assessment at Florida Tech.
• Summaries of results from surveys of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff (Word documents). The undergraduate document summarizes NSSE results.
• Goals and assessment processes for individual academic, administrative, and support units. The instructions to academic units include sample goal statements.
• Online form for submitting assessment reports (restricted to Florida Tech faculty & staff).

• Assessment approach: Overview of assessment at FLC (Word documents).
• Assessment of general education: General education outcomes, overview of assessment plan, and assessment reports (Word documents).
• Departmental assessment (Word documents)
• Schedule and guidelines for assessment-based program reviews, and annual reporting formats.
• Academic programs' outcomes, assessment methods, and annual reports.
• Timelines & reporting formats (Word documents).
• Reports from student surveys, including NSSE results, and presentations on assessment at FLC (Word documents, Excel & Powerpoint files).

• Institutional (general education) learning outcomes.
• Curriculum committee
• Student learning outcomes FAQ.
• Handbook for writing learning outcomes (pdf file).

Gateway Community College: Office of Planning, Research & Effectiveness (Arizona)

• Institutional effectiveness plan (pdf file, see pp. 12-14 for an overview of assessment at GCC).
• Student academic achievement assessment plan for assessing general education outcomes (pdf file).

George Mason University: Office of Institutional Assessment (Virginia)

• Overview of GMU's assessment of general education outcomes and Virginia state-level competencies. The general education guidelines are a Word document. The competencies proposals, reports, & standards are pdf files.
• Links to online surveys (restricted to GMU students, faculty, & staff) and reports (pdf files) from some surveys, including NSSE results. The data resources page includes brief descriptions of the surveys, tips on using the data for assessment and program review, and links to the reports.
• Information about WEAVEonline. The FAQ is a Word document. Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to GMU faculty & staff.
• Information about on-campus workshops.
• Information about periodic academic program review (pdf files, Word documents).
• Resources include 
• (Archived) academic units learning goals & assessment methods and a guide to creating learning goals (outcomes). 
• Links to other resources.
• The university life (student affairs) assessment site was not available when last checked.

• About assessment.
• Assessment reporting schedule and assessment planning record (APR) reporting templates (Word [.doc & .docx] documents).
• Assessment reports from some academic programs (Word [.doc & .docx] documents).
• Instructions, example, and reporting template for core (general education) assessment (Word documents).
• Schedules, instructions, and reporting templates for periodic program review (Word documents).
• Information from a faculty development workshop (FDW) about assessment.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Note: Some pages say that the files listed are password protected but they were not, when last checked.

Georgia Institute of Technology: Office of Assessment

• FAQ.
• Access to online assessment reporting (OATS) and data-retrieval (ADORS) systems (restricted to Georgia Tech faculty & staff).
• Georgia Tech's strategic plans.
• Documents (almost all are pdf files)
• Guidelines for and examples of academic programs' assessment plans and OATS reports.
• Program review guidelines, formats, templates.
• Reports on assessment of general education goals.
• Examples of and reports from surveys of enrolled students, faculty, baccalaureate and graduate alumni, and recruiters & employers, including NSSE and CSEQ profiles.
• Workshops and presentations about assessment.
• Note: The links to discipline-specific accreditation reports did not work when last checked.

Georgia Perimeter College: Center for Teaching and Learning

• GPC assessment plan.
• General education outcomes, curriculum maps, and survey of student self ratings.
• Summary of academic disciplines' assessment methods, and assessment plan reports with outcomes, assessment methods, results, and actions taken.
• Guidelines and summaries for academic program reviews.
• Campus-wide performance indicators (Institutional Factors of Success).

Georgia State University

• Office of Institutional Research
• Assessment and planning: Overview of assessment in academic & administrative units.
• Information about periodic program review. 
• Academic programs. (html pages & pdf files. Reports from current & completed reviews are restricted to GSU faculty & staff.)
• Administrative & support programs (mostly Word documents).
• Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to GSU faculty & staff.
• Reports from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE and CSXQ (College Students Experiences Questionnaire) results (pdf files).
• Older assessment sites. ( Some of this information may eventually be incorporated into OIR's pages.)
• For academic departments, from the Center for Teaching & Learning
• Background information about outcomes assessment and relevant university policy.
• Tools for developing outcomes, including rubrics for evaluating assessment plans.
• Templates for assessment plans and reports.
• FAQ about assessment at GSU.
• Examples of outcomes for general education and academic majors.
• Assessment plans for general education and academic majors (pdf files).
• Access to WEAVEonline (restricted to GSU faculty & staff).
• Links to other resources.
• For administrative and support units
  • Assessment plan and reports (some html files, some Word documents, some rtf files).
  • Access to WEAVEonline (restricted to GSU faculty & staff).

Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania)

• Outcomes assessment plan and assessment-related organization chart (pdf files).
• General education goals and information about GC's general education program, and detailed curricular (pdf file) and co-curricular (pdf file & Word document) learning outcomes for each goal.
• Responsibilities, plans, accomplishments of COLA (Committee on Learning Assessment) and CLAG (Co-curricular Learning Assessment Group). Committee reports are restricted to GC faculty & staff.
• Information for faculty and co-curricular learning assessment:
  • FAQ (on the resources for faculty page).
  • Links to other assessment resources.
  • The reporting templates, learning goals, and department summaries on the co-curricular programs page are restricted to GC faculty & staff.

Guam Community College: Office of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

• Recent GCC assessment reports (pdf files).
• Online video presentation about assessment at GCC.
• Information about automated assessment using TracDat (pdf file) and templates previously used for assessment plans & reports (Word documents). TracDat access is restricted to GCC faculty & staff.
• Assessment committee responsibilities and activities.
• The archive has an online "tour" of information about assessment at GCC.
• Links to assessment resources.

Heartland Community College (Illinois)

• Overview of course-based assessment at HCC (includes a description of the college's general education learning outcomes).
• Assessment Basics is an assessment FAQ page.
• The Assessment Committee's procedures for reviewing course-level assessment plans.
• Assessment Quarterly online newsletter (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• HC assessment plan (pdf file).
• Tools & methods includes guidelines for developing assessment plans (pdf files).
• Success skills: General education goals & outcomes.
• The program assessment portfolios are restricted to HC faculty & staff.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• SCORE: information about assessment:
• Emphasizes assessment of individual students rather than programs.
• Information, tips, & resource links for faculty and for students about various types of assessment.

• HU assessment plan (pdf file).
• Instructions and reporting templates for unit-level assessment plans.
• Material from an on-campus assessment workshop (Powerpoint presentations & html page).
• Toolbox
• Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing assessment plans (Powerpoint presentations, pdf files, html pages).
• HU's checklist for assessment plans & reports (pdf file) and examples from other institutions (pdf files, Word documents, html pages).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Some HU academic & administrative units' assessment plans (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources, including plans by discipline from other institutions.

Idaho State University: Office of Institutional Research

• Assessment handbooks (pdf files) for program and course assessment, adapted from the University of Massachussetts Amherst' handbooks. Appendix 5-B in the program assessment handbook has information about ISU's annual reporting process.
• Assessment bibliography and links to other assessment resources.

• The assessment handbook includes policies, guidelines, and reporting forms for academic programs and administrative & support units. Chapters are available both as html pages and as pdf files.

• Scroll down for assessment plans from some academic programs (pdf files).

Illinois State University: University Assessment Office

• Most links in the assessment plan tutorial are to pdf files. The assessment plan worksheet is a Word document.
• Program assessment: Individual academic programs' student learning objectives and (in many cases) assessment methods (pdf files).
• General education 
• FAQ about general education assessment at ISU.
• General education goals and (pdf file) outcomes. 
• Policies and (pdf file) assessment manual.
• Information for assessment reviewers (pdf file).
• Assessment process and (pdf files) rubrics for the primary goals.
• Activities & services includes information about student surveys at ISU, including NSSE results. Reports are pdf files.
• List of upcoming national & regional assessment-related conferences & workshops.

Indiana State University

• Assessment & Accreditation
  
• Policy and principles for assessment at ISU (pdf file) and as part of NCA accreditation..
• Examples of college and department assessment plans, surveys, and reports (Word documents and Excel files).
• Current assessment activities:
  • General education assessment.
  • GE requirements and learning objectives.
  • Policy statement and NSSE results (pdf files)
  • Graduating senior survey and NSSE results (pdf files).
• Assessment progress at ISU includes assessment responsibilities & timeline and reporting templates & guidelines (pdf files & Word documents).
• Assessment at ISU newsletter (pdf file).
• Resources include assessment handbooks (pdf files), Word documents & Powerpoint presentations on various aspects of assessment, and links to other assessment resources.
• Student Affairs Office of Research & Effectiveness
  • About student affairs assessment at ISU.
  • Assessment plan (pdf file).
  • Current assessment projects and (pdf files) summary reports of division- and unit-level assessment activities.
  • Online form for student reports of learning outcomes associated with Student Affairs activities.
  • Links to other assessment resources.

Indiana University Kokomo: Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• University assessment policy and (pdf files) assessment council minutes.
• Assessment terms.
• Assessment results from some academic and administrative units (html summaries; the assessment plans and full reports are pdf files & Word  [doc, docx] documents).
• Activities: Campus-level reports (pdf files) and assessment calendar.
• Links to other assessment resources, plus
  • Assessment cycle diagram of IUK assessment process (pdf file).
  • IUK's NSSE results (pdf and Powerpoint files).

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

• Assessment information
• IPFW's assessment plan and an action plan (pdf file) for implementing assessment.
• Template for school/college reports on individual programs' assessment activities.
• General education objectives (pdf file).
• Academic program assessment
• Assessment plans for individual undergraduate and graduate programs (pdf files). 
• Schools' and general studies (general education) annual assessment reports, with feedback on programs' assessment activities (pdf files, Word documents, html pages).
• The approval process for new and changed assessment plans is an Excel file.
• Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf file).
• Institutional assessment reports include results from surveys of students and faculty, including NSSE results (pdf files, html pages, & Excel files).
• Assessment Council minutes and reports (pdf files).
• Resources
  • Assessment handbook, check list and FAQ (questions & answers brochure) (pdf files).
  • Assessment bibliographies.
• Links to other resources.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Planning & Improvement 
  • Note: many of the links on these pages are to pdf files which can be downloaded but which do not automatically open the Adobe reader in your browser.
  • PRAC (Program Review and Assessment Committee)
    • Annual summaries of committee activities.
    • Assessment reports from IUPUI schools.
  • IUPUI Program Review guidelines, self-study questions, and examples of self-study reports.
  • Assessment grant guidelines and reports.
  • Results from surveys of students, staff, & faculty, including NSSE results (html pages, pdf files).
  • Information from/about specific assessment projects.
• Examples of and initiatives in assessing student learning, from IUPUI's institutional portfolio.
• Purdue School of Engineering and Technology: Office of Research
  • Assessment principles and processes. Q&A format information about assessment, assessment's role in ABET accreditation, and E&T's experience developing an assessment process.
  • Relationships between IUPUI's Principles of Undergraduate Learning (general education outcomes) and ABET's required program outcomes.
  • Tutorial on developing rubrics.
  • Annual assessment reports for E&T and individual departments (on the PRAC page, see above).
  • Papers and presentations about assessment by E&T faculty.

• History and description of assessment at IUS, including results from a survey of faculty knowledge and opinion about assessment. (The survey itself is a pdf file).
• Assessment handbook for academic programs (individual chapters are pdf files), and a glossary of assessment terms.
• Overview of the annual assessment process for academic programs. Instructions, reporting templates, and the assessment committee's evaluation rubric and feedback form, are pdf files.
• Reports on academic programs' progress with their assessment processes.
• General education overview and reports. The overview includes IUS's general education learning goals. The reports are pdf files.
• Presentations about assessment and assessment tools & tips from IUS faculty members (abstracts are html pages; other links are to pdf files).
• Information about assessment grants, and about workshops & resources at IUS's Institute for Teaching & Learning Excellence.

Indiana Wesleyan University

• History and structure of assessment in traditional programs, and program review schedule.
• Assessment in adult & graduate programs.
  • The assessment process handbook (pdf file) includes
    • assessment techniques used by these programs,
    • hints on and IWU examples of various assessment methods,
    • reporting forms,
    • program review schedule, and
    • individual programs' assessment plans.
  • Annual assessment reports and summary "grids" ( pdf files).
  • Process for and report on assessing students' spiritual growth (pdf files).
  • On-campus presentations about assessment (pdf files).

Iowa State University

• Overview, and guidelines for assessment at ISU.
• Individual colleges' assessment reports have brief overviews of learning outcomes, assessment methods, and results.
• The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching has links to assessment resources.

Isothermal Community College (North Carolina)

• Note: Most of these are pdf files. Some are also available as Word documents.
• College-wide assessment plan and progress report, including general education outcomes and assessment methods..
• Models (guidelines) for assessment in academic and support areas.
• Guidelines for classroom assessment techniques.
• Reports from surveys of faculty about assessment activities.
• Minutes of campus assessment meetings.

Jacksonville State University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Alabama)

• Data in the university assessment system are restricted to JSU faculty & staff.
• Information about surveys and other assessment instruments used at JSU.
• Some survey data are restricted to JSU faculty & staff. Quick Facts reports, including NSSE results (pdf files), are available to the public.

James Madison University: Center for Assessment and Research Studies (Virginia)

• Overview of JMU's assessment process.
• Brief descriptions of assessment of academic majors, general education, and Student Affairs activities, and of JMU's program assessment support service. The general education section links to information about the general-ed program and learning goals and to some assessment reports (pdf and Powerpoint files).
• Information about JMU's graduate programs and research in asessment.
• Links to JMU assessment resources including
  • a searcheable dictionary of assessment terms,
  • assessment and test-development tips, techniques, and examples, and
  • information about assessment instruments developed at JMU, including general-education tests and a survey of student motivation for & effort in taking assessment tests.

John Carroll University (Ohio)

• Office of Planning and Assessment
• Overview of assessment at JCU.
• Reporting
• Template for department assessment reports (Word document).
• Still to come: departmental reports.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Student Affairs Assessment
• Division- and department-level learning goals & outcomes.
• Information about surveys and survey reports.
• Resources include:
• Template for reporting assessment plans (pdf file).
• Information about on-campus workshops.
• The intranet is restricted to JCU students, faculty, & staff.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• History and progress report on assessment at JWU.
• University (general education) outcomes.
• Annotated links to other assessment resources.

Kansas State University: Office of Assessment

• About assessment reporting and feedback, including an overview of assessment at K-State, policy memos, calendar, the review process, reporting templates, and college-level assessment groups (review committees).
• Guidelines for developing assessment plans.
• General education student learning outcomes (SLOs) for undergraduates and graduate students, and information about the assessment process for University General Education (UGE, undergraduate) courses.
• SLOs and assessment plans from individual degree programs, and examples of annual progress reports (pdf files & html pages).
• Information about and results from surveys of students and alumni, including NSSE results (reports are pdf files).
• K-State's involvement in regional & national assessment initiatives, including its College Portrait (pdf files & html pages).
• Reports from accreditation self-studies & NCA visits.
• Resources include:
  • On-campus workshops and assessment-related events.
  • Assessment Update online newsletter (pdf files).
  • Links to other assessment resources

Kennesaw State University: Center for Institutional Effectiveness (Georgia)

• Guidelines and feedback rubric (pdf & Excel files, Word documents) for AOL (assurance of learning) reporting. 
• Archival materials include an overview and background of the AOL process (pdf files) and previous years' guidelines & reporting instructions (pdf files, Word documents).
• Individual degree programs' AOL reports and the AOL Council's review comments (pdf files).
• Information about KSU's periodic program review process (pdf files).

Keene State College: Academic Affairs Assessment Advisory Committee (New Hampshire)

• Glossary.
• Template for reporting assessment plans & results (pdf file).
• Committee plan and form for review of programs' assessment plans.
• Information about assessment mini-grants.
• General education outcomes.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Kettering University (Michigan)

• Undergraduate degrees assessments
• Learning outcomes and assessment methods for individual programs (some html pages, some pdf files; some programs' information is not available yet).

King's College (Pennsylvania)

• Overview of assessment at KC.
• Handbook on Excellence in Learning and Pedagogy (HELP) from the Kings' College Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, with information about
  • the assessment process,
  • principles and examples of course-based assessment,
  • on-campus resources, and
  • detailed examples (restricted to King's College faculty and staff).

Kingsborough Community College: Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning (New York)

• Assessment (pdf files)
• KCC assessment plan.
• College-level mission, goals & objectives (MGOs) and report on assessment of MGOs.
• Outcomes for academic & student support services and relevant survey results.
• Learning outcomes for individual courses.
• Institutional Research: KCC results on CCSSE and CUNY-system surveys (pdf files).
• Links to other resources.

Kirkwood Community College (Iowa)

• Committee report on ways to improve KCC's curriculum review processes includes suggestions for a coordinated assessment plan (pdf file).
• The Learning Outcomes component of KCC's Vanguard Project site includes a status report on assessment activities/accomplishments at KCC.
• The CASTLE program (Continuous Learning in a Teaching Learning Environment) supports classroom assessment at KCC.

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College (Wisconsin)

• Assessment and continuous improvement plans and progress report.
• Tips, checklists, etc. for developing and reporting assessment processes (some html files, some Word documents, some Powerpoint files).
• Flow chart "map" of steps in preparing a course's assessment "mini-portfolio" (Excel file).
• The Assessment Handbook includes overviews of LCOOCC's assessment approach and of assessment issues in a nontraditional institution.
• Resources and reports available in the Assessment Center.
• Links to other resources.

Lake Land College: Outcomes Assessment (Illinois)

• Assessment policy, goals, & timelines.
• Methods & plans for assessment of general education.
• Outcomes assessment reports for the college and for general education (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources. Note: Most of the assessment tools (evaluation forms, etc.) are pdf files.

• The schedule of planned assessments summarizes Lander's assessment processes (pdf file).
• Institutional effectiveness: 
• Assessment reports from individual academic & administrative/support units and for each general education outcome (pdf files).
• Strategic goals reporting calendar and "report cards" (pdf files).
• Accountability and institutional effectiveness reports to the SC Commission on Higher Education (pdf files).
• Results from MAPP assessment of some general education outcomes (pdf files).
• Results from NSSE and other surveys (pdf files).

Lane Community College: Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning (Oregon)

• Planning Process: Guidelines, tips for developing assessment plans.
• Plans and Reports: 
• Lane's assessment plan.
• Assessment plans and "closing the loop" summaries include program outcomes, assessment methods, and assessment results (pdf files, Word documents). What's reported varies from program to program.
• Assessment project reports and resources include general education assessment (html pages, pdf files).
• Student Success includes some student-survey results (pdf files).
• Reports from the assessment team (pdf files).
• Learning about assessment
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Material from on-campus workshops & seminars (mostly pdf files).
• The faculty development modules are pdf files.
• Reports from NWCCU accreditation self-studies & visits (pdf files unless otherwise indicated).
  
• Related links
• Links to other resources.
• Periodic program review plans & reports (pdf files).
• Institutional effectiveness: survey and related project reports (pdf files).

• Overview of assessment at Laney. 
• Documents associated with this page include:
• An assessment manual (pdf files).
• An assessment newsletter (pdf files).
• Assessment committee agendas & minutes (pdf files; older agendas/minutes are Word documents).
• Results from a survey of academic departments about assessment activities (pdf files).
• Assessment books available on campus (pdf file).
• Links to material from some of the site's other pages.
• Links to other resources, including a library search for assessment-related books.
• GE (general education) outcomes. This page's documents include assessment methods & a curriculum map (Word documents).
• Assessment tools: An overview of assessment methods, including guidelines for writing & using rubrics. 
• Handouts & examples include workshop handouts (Word & Powerpoint files) and rubric examples from individual academic programs (Word documents).
• Links to other resources.
• Tips on how to write student learning outcomes, with Laney examples. 
• Documents include presentations. worksheets, and examples (Word documents, pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Links to other resources.
• SLO forms: An overview of the reporting process for assessment plans & results. Documents include forms, reporting timelines, the committee's evaluation rubric for submitted plans & reports (Word documents), and instructions for the TaskStream assessment management system (pdf files).
• SLOreporting: Documents include outcomes and assessment plans & reports from individual academic programs (Word documents).

• Overview & philosophy.
• LPC core competencies (general education outcomes, pdf file).
• Tutorial and timeline for developing & implementing assessment of student learning outcomes (SLOs).
• Information about assessment mini-grants and examples of department- & course-level SLO projects (pdf files).
• Resources include
• Forms for reporting course- & department-level SLOs (Word documents) and assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
• Presentations & guidelines (pdf files).
• Accreditation and program review information (pdf & Excel files; the program review database is restricted to LPC faculty & staff).
• Links to other assessment & accreditation resources.
• SLO committee agendas & minutes (pdf files).
• The archives include older SLO committee minutes, reports, & plans (pdf files).
• The eLumen server is restricted to LPC faculty & staff.

• Overview of assessment at LC.
• Calendar of survey assessments.
• Summary of results from the SSI (Student Satisfaction Inventory).

• Overview of assessment at LU.
• Student assessment
• Information for students about general education and major field assessment at LU.
• Major field assessment exams used by individual academic programs, with a testing schedule.
• Results from LU student surveys (pdf files).
• An overall assessment progress report and results of standardized general-education and discipline-area tests (pdf files).
• Assessment material in LU's library, and links to other assessment resources.

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania: Office of Planning and Assessment

• Assessment Plans include
  • campus-wide and distance-education assessment plans (html files and Word documents) and
  • assessment summaries from some academic and administrative units (Word documents).
  • Still to come: Reports on assessment of general education areas.
• National survey reports from the Institutional Research office include NSSE results (pdf files).
• Program review
• Guidelines, templates, examples, & workshop materials for program reviews & annual reports (pdf files, Word documents).
• Program review & annual reports from some individual academic, administrative, and support units (Word [doc, docx] documents, Excel files).
• Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf, video, & Powerpoint files).
• Accountability reports for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).
• Access to TracDat is restricted to LHUP faculty & staff.

• Outcomes assessment in LBCC instructional & service programs.
• Overview & philosophy (html pages, pdf files). The institutional effectiveness page includes a timeline for developing LBCC's assessment process (pdf file).
• Template & guidelines for assessment plans (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
• Information about periodic program review. (TracDat access is restricted to LBCC faculty & staff.)
• Student learning outcomes (SLO)
• General information includes an overview of outcomes assessment, guidelines & resources (pdf files), and an FAQ.
• Presentations, guidelines, templates, & examples for course-level outcomes & assessment plans (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
• Presentations, guidelines, templates, & examples for program-level outcomes & assessment plans (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
• Institution-level (general education) outcomes and assessment approach (pdf files).
• Presentations & examples of assessment methods, including rubrics used at LBCC & elsewhere (pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Overview & guidelines for assessing service units' outcomes (pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Overview and timeline (Word documents).
• Examples of assessment plans, reporting forms, and report glossary from LIU campuses (Word documents).
• Key assessment concepts & guidelines (pdf & Powerpoint [pptx] files, Word documents).
• Information about the assessment committee, minutes, and assessment readings (Word documents).
• Documents for academic deans: Guidelines and links to assessment handbooks & examples of institution-, program-, & course-level assessment plans (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
• Presentations on using StudentVoice software for assessment surveys (Powerpoint [ppt, pptx] files).
• Links to assessment resources from LIU & other institutions & to information about assessment conferences (html pages, pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
• LIU Brooklyn campus assessment website
• Overview of assessment at the Brooklyn campus.
• Status of individual academic & student services units' progress (the assessment plans & reports themselves are restricted to LIU-Brooklyn faculty & staff).
• Core curriculum (general education) learning goals & outcomes.
• Template for reporting assessment plans, & a sample report (pdf files).
• Online forum for discussion of LIU-Brooklyn assessment activities.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• LFCC assessment manual (pdf file):
• FAQ and tips about designing assessment plans.
• Calendar and a course*objectives matrix for general education assessments. 
• Forms for reporting assessment plans & results.
• Information about academic program review.
• General education learning goals & outcomes (pdf file).
• Program review calendar and institutional-research data from recent program reviews (Excel files).

• Learning outcomes and assessment plans from academic and administrative/services departments (pdf files).
• Report on institutional assessment plan (pdf file).
• Reports from student surveys, including NSSE results (pdf files).

• Overview and guiding principles.
• University learning goals (general education).
• Resources include
• Tips, guidelines, & examples (most examples are Word documents).
• Glossary.
• External funding opportunities.
• Bibliography.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Information about LMU assessment mini-grants.
• Information from and about on-campus workshops (pdf files).
• Celebrating assessment at LMU: "Best practice" examples & impacts.

• Overview of assessment at LUC.
• Assessment at Loyola
• Summary of academic units' assessment methods (pdf file).
• Presentation on assessment activities (html pages).
• Template for assessment reports (Word document).
• Best practices guidlines for developing assessment plans.
• Links to other assessment resources.

Macalester College: Assessment Office (Minnesota)

• Assessment at Macalester: This FAQ includes a description of Macalester's general education assessment process.
• Inventory of assessment resources
• Development guide (pdf file) and reporting template (Word document) for departmental assessment plans.
• Discussion of key terms. (Fewer terms than a typical glossary, but more detailed discussion of each.)
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Additional resources
• Macalester's assessment plan (pdf file).
• Guidelines for review of departmental assessment plans (pdf file).
• Report on assessment of expected (general education) student outcomes (pdf file).
• Results from surveys of students and alumni, including NSSE and CSEQ results (some html files, some pdf files; some reports are restricted to Macalester faculty & staff).

Madison Area Technical College: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Wisconsin)

• Overview of MATC's assessment process.
• FAQ.
• Assessment resources include:
• Glossary.
• An audiovisual presentation on assessment (swf file) and assessment guidelines & tips (pdf files).
• Information about MATC's core abilities (general education outcomes; pdf files and an swf audiovisual presentation).
• Program assessment handbook and guidelines (pdf files).
• The LOAD assessment database is restricted to MATC faculty & staff.
• Quick tips on formative and summative assessment and a (Word document) handout on using mid-semester student feedback.

Mansfield University (Pennsylvania)

• Overview of assessment at MU.
• Assessment plan (Word document).
• Guidelines for defining and reporting program outcomes (Word documents).
• Assessment techniques used at MU.
• Links to other resources.

• Overview.
• Process and calendar for academic program assessment.
• General education assessment process, calendar, and reports, including links (pdf and Excel files) between gen-ed goals and NSSE results. (The NSSE pocket guide summarizes recent MC results. [pdf file]) 
• Forms for program and general education assessment reports and for assessment-committee feedback (Word documents).
• Technology assessment is actually "assessment technology" -- links to online tools to create assessment rubrics and class evaluations.
• Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf file, see Committee Forms) and brief descriptions of recent assessment-grant projects.
• Description and evaluation of MC's AQIP project (pdf file and Powerpoint/Word presentation).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Marquette University (Wisconsin)

• Policies, procedures, and timeline (pdf files).
• Audit of college/school progress in developing/implementing assessment processes (pdf file).
• Student learning outcomes for disciplines, general education, and co-curricular programs (pdf files).
• Assessment plans (pdf files) and reports for individual academic units. (The reports are restricted to Marquette faculty & staff.)
• Institution-level summary reports from student surveys (pdf files).
• Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources (pdf file).
• Center for Teaching & Learning's links to assessment resources, including examples by major/discipline.

• Overview of McKendree's general education assessment process. Click on the ovals in the diagram for the general education outcomes.
• Draft rubrics for each general education outcome and for some discipline-specific outcomes.
• Tip sheet (Word document) about McKendree's online assessment-management system.
• Materials from on-campus workshops (Powerpoint presentations & Word documents; some files from the Fall 2008 workshop are in Office2007 [.pptx & .docx] format).
• The teaching for excellence page has a link to McKendree's associate faculty handbook. Pp. 48-53 describe the online assessment-management system (pdf file; access to the system itself is restricted to McKendree faculty & staff).
• The assessment page is restricted to McKendree faculty & staff.

• Overview of assessment at MCCC.
• Institutional assessment plan (Word document).
• Results from the CCSSE and graduating student surveys (pdf files).

Meredith College: Office of Research, Planning, & Assessment (North Carolina)

• Individual academic, administrative, & support units' continuous improvement reports & plans (pdf files, Word documents).
• Guidelines (pdf files) and forms (Word documents) for continuous improvement plans & reports.
• Assessment terms used at Meredith (pdf file).
• General education learning outcomes & assessment reports (pdf files, Word documents).
• Information about assessment mini-grants and an online grant-proposal form.
• Program review guidelines and calendar (pdf files, html pages).
• Reports & surveys include results from standardized surveys & assessments such as NSSE & MAPP.
• Information about & from on- & off-campus conferences & workshops (html pages, pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Mesa Community College: Office of Research & Planning (Arizona)

• General education outcomes (pdf file).
• Recent assessment results and previous highlights.
• Student Outcomes Committee information and Results Outreach Committee mini-grant information and forms.
• Assessment week, 2009
• FAQ.
• Tips for faculty administering assessments.
• Information for students about assessment.

• Department of Academic Assessment
• About assessment committees at MSCD (html pages, pdf files).
• Reporting forms (Word [docx] documents, Excel [xls, xlsx] files).
• Reports from individual academic programs are restricted to MSCD faculty & staff.
• About MSCD initiatives to reward program assessment achievement.
• Resources
• Tools include guidelines for program assessment (pdf file), a brief glossary, and sample rubrics (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Office of Student Services Assessment
• Assessment resources
• Framework for student services assessment at MSCD.
• Assessment handbook.
• Format and evaluation rubric for assessment plans and reports (Excel files), and reporting instructions.
• Learning outcome categories, definitions, and outcome examples (pdf files).
• A conference presentation on assessment.
• NSSE results.
• Information from an assessment workshop (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
• The assessment reports are restricted to MSCD faculty & staff.

Miami University: Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment (Ohio)

• Assessment basics
  • Guidelines for designing assessment plans.
  • FAQ and assessment glossary.
  • Examples of rubrics for general education skills and abilities.
  • Links to other assessment resources.
• Miami Plan (general education) assessment
  • Information about the Miami Plan (html pages, pdf files).
  • Assessment FAQ and history.
  • Guidelines for assessment plans & reports.
  • Examples & resources for (html pages, pdf files):
  • Miami Plan assessment reports.
  • Course-level learning outcomes.
  • Rubrics & questionnaires.
• Assessment projects at MU include 
• Development of learning outcomes for academic majors.
• Information about surveys of MU students.
• Information about financial assistance (assessment mini-grants), including applications (pdf files) and recent recipients.
• Assessment Briefs online newsletter (pdf files) and information about assessment-related luncheon meetings and workshops.

• Resources include the MTSU institutional effectiveness handbook, with information about assessment at MTSU and tips for conducting outcomes assessment (pdf files).
• FAQ guide to best practices for academic program analysis and improvement.
• General education assessment process and results (results are pdf files).
• Major field assessments used by MTSU academic programs.
• Assessment reports from academic, administrative, and support units. Academic-unit reports include learning outcomes, assessment methods, results, and impacts. (Select I.E.A. Reports, then Institutional Effectiveness Plans, then MTSU IE Plans. Then select a year and a unit, and display its plan. Edit access is restricted to MTSU faculty & staff.)
• Results from surveys of students, alumni, employers, and faculty (pdf files), including NSSE results.
• Procedures for academic program review (pdf files; program review reports are restricted to MTSU faculty & staff).
• THEC performance funding documents and summaries (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Millersville University (Pennsylvania)

• Overview of assessment at MU.
• Glossary of assessment terms.
• The comprehensive assessment summary is restricted to MU faculty & staff.
• Instructions and templates for learning outcomes assessment plans and reports (Word documents).
• Reports and surveys
• Results from surveys of students and faculty, including NSSE results (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
• Annual assessment reports to the state university system (pdf & Excel files).
• Middle States 5-year review report includes sections on assessment (pdf file).

• Overview of assessment activities (executive summary of report for HLC focused visit).
• Assessment reports
• Templates for assessment reports.
• Assessment reports from individual academic programs (Word documents), including university studies (general education).
• HLC focus visit report (pdf file, Word & rtf documents).

• FAQ.
• Institution assessment plan (pdf files) and program assessment plans (Word documents).
• Academic assessment
• Overview (pdf file) and diagram.
• General education assessment
• Overview.
• Outcomes & assessment rubrics.
• Support/resources
• Overview & guidelines.
• Assessment methods.
• Information about assessment mini-grants.
• On-campus library materials.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Reporting forms for assessment plans & results (Word documents).
• NSSE & BCSSE results (pdf files).
• Calendars & guidelines for periodic program review (pdf files, Word documents).
• Student affairs assessment: Overview, guidelines, library resources, & links to other assessment resources,
• Assessment plans & reports from some administrative units (pdf files).

• Overview of assessment at MSUM, and policies & procedures.
• Dragon Core (general education) learning outcomes and assessment process, including rubrics & reports (pdf files) from individual assessment projects.
• Reporting instructions and templates (pdf file, Word documents).
• Assessment plans & reports from individual academic programs, with assessment committee comments (html pages & pdf files). 
• Examples of impacts on curricula.
• Resources include:
• Glossary, and guidelines for developing assessment plans & methods.
• Assessment committee review rubrics (Word documents).
• NCA-HLC's guide for accreditation reviews.
• Summary of NSSE results.

Mississippi State University: Division of Student Affairs, Office of Assessment

• About Student Affairs assessment at MSU.
• Pre-assessment worksheet: Guidelines for planning assessments (pdf file).
• Reports from surveys (pdf and Powerpoint files).
• Resources include a bibliography on student-affairs-related assessment and (pdf file) guidelines for developing assessment processes.

• Overview of MSSU assessment activities.
• Assessment
• Information about national and locally-developed instruments used to assess general education, academic majors, and student development.
• University assessment plan (pdf file).
• Teacher education assessment results (pdf file).
• NSSE results.

Missouri State University: Center for Assessment and Instructional Support

• Academic quality: MSU assessment plan.
• About the CAIS
  • Information about assessment at MSU. (The flowchart is a pdf file.)
  • National surveys used at MSU.
  • Links to other assessment resources.
• Formats for units' annual assessment reports. The assessment tables and feedback form are restricted to MSU faculty & staff.
• News and events: Presentations from on-campus workshops and webinars (pdf & Adobe presentation files).
• Reports & survey results, NSSE & MAPP results, and information about Chart R: (annual program review measures) are restricted to MSU faculty & staff.
• Information about MSU's assessment council and participation in HLC's assessment academy.

• Overview of outcomes assessment at MACC.
• Institutional data and statistics include CAPP and student survey results. Still to come: Assessment annual report.

• Student Learning Outcomes committee
• Online tutorial (assessment handbook): Start with The Big Picture and follow the links, or use the tabs from The Big Picture to About the Data to view individual sections.
• MJC news stories & documents about the assessment process, in the home page menu and the document images at the bottom of the page (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
• WASC assessment-related recommendations for MJC (with link to MJC's Powerpoint presentation).
• SLO committee: 
• Objectives, pilot project (pdf file), and workshop calendar.
• Agendas (with links to supporting html pages, pdf files, & Word documents), meeting schedule (pdf file), minutes (Word documents), and establishing documents (Word documents).
• On-campus assistance for the assessment process.
• Links to other assessment resources.
• Still to come: Assessment glossary.

Monmouth College (Illinois)

• Assessment manual (pdf files)
• Overview of assessment at Monmouth.
• Processes, procedures, and timelines.
• Outcomes, assessment processes, and rubrics for general education courses.
• Outcomes and assessment processes for individial academic majors.
• FAQ: reporting cycle for academic-major assessments.
• Sample assessment reports from Monmouth academic departments.
• Resources: Guidelines for academic program review (pdf file).
• Senior transcript reflection form: Online survey asking graduating seniors to comment on their experiences and accompishment of general education outcomes.
• Assessment glossary.
• Links to assessment resources.

Monmouth University: Academic and Institutional Assessment (New Jersey)

• Learning outcomes
• General education outcomes.
• Individual degree programs' learning outcomes (pdf files).
• NSSE results.
• Alumni information: Results from alumni surveys, NSSE, & institutional research data.
• Value-added education:  Brief results from NSSE & CLA.

Montana State University-Bozeman

• Background of outcomes assessment at MSU.
• Assessment policy, principles, standards, and useful techniques.
• Assessment plans and reports for undergraduate majors, and a rubric used to review assessment plans (pdf files).
• Links to descriptions of general education at MSU. No information on general education assessment.
• Information about capstone courses.
• Senior survey results (pdf files) and related data (institutional research results).
• Information about periodic program review.
• Links to assessment resources (this website).

Montgomery College (Maryland)

• Overview, and guiding principles for assessment at MC.
• General education assessment process
• General education competency areas (outcomes; pdf file).
• The general education assessment schedule, the "leading courses" list, and the general education competency survey are Word documents.
• The academic areas assessment process is described in more detail on the program review (college area review [CAR]) site (pdf files, Word documents).
• Forms and instructions for reporting assessment plans & results (pdf files, Word [doc, docx] documents). Also see the FAQ for the data collection (reporting) process.
• Assessment glossary &  FAQ.
• Resources include:
• Assessment handbook, full and "Cliff Notes" versions (pdf files).
• Assessment cycle (pdf file).
• Guidelines for implementing the assessment process (pdf & Powerpoint (ppsx] file).
• Links to other assessment resources.

Morningside College (Iowa)

• Guidelines include policies, assessment plan, general procedures, and a curriculum matrix (Excel file) of relationships between general education outcomes and outcomes of distribution/flag courses.
• Assessment handbook chapters are individual pdf files.
• Downloadable forms for academic majors' assessment plans and reports. 
• Student learning outcomes and assessment plans and reports from individual academic majors (Word documents). A few were available when last checked.
• Distribution (general education) outcomes, assessment reporting forms, and report examples (Word documents). The assessment instructions/guidelines for each outcome are pdf files.
• Reports from student and alumni surveys, including NSSE results (pdf files and Word documents).
• Links to assessment resources.
• Still to come: More about general education assessment.

Mount Royal College: Curriculum Renewal (Alberta)

• Learning outcomes
  • College-wide (general education) outcomes (Word document).
  • Links to resources about designing and assessing learning outcomes.
• Assessment of learning outcomes
  • College assessment plan and guidelines for discipline and program plans (Word documents).
  • Reporting guidelines and annual report summaries (Word documents).
  • Examples of individual academic programs' plans, assessment documents, etc. (mostly Word documents; some Powerpoint & Excel files). What's there varies from program to program.
• Assessment showcase of individual program examples.
• Resource and support documents including examples and templates (Word documents).
• Resources include:
  • Information about funding curriculum renewal activities (Word document).
  • Links to assessment and other resources.

Mount Vernon Nazarene University (Ohio)

• Assessment methods for each academic major's seniors.
• Student learning outcomes results from nationally standardized tests of general education and some major fields (pdf files).
• A comparison of portfolio and standardized-test assessment strategies.
• Resources include Powerpoint presentations about developing & implementing assessment, and a pdf document with links to other assessment resources.

National Park Community College (Arkansas)

• About assessment at NPCC.
• Guidelines for academic program assessment
• General education outcomes and assessment process.
• Links to other assessment resources (this page).

• About assessment at NMJC.
• General education outcomes.
• Guidelines for departmental & institutional assessment processes.
• Outcomes assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

New Mexico State University

• Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Outcomes Assessment
  • Outcomes assessment plan (html file) and progress report (attachment to the plan, a pdf file).
  • Academic achievement
  • Assessment handbook, Assessment Revisited: A Guide to De-Cluttering the Assessment Process (pdf file).
  • Online newsletter (pdf files).
  • College-level annual assessment reports, with program-level details (pdf files).
  • Reporting templates & evaluation rubrics (Word documents) and assessment schedule (Excel file).
  • Assessment commitee minutes (Word documents).
  • Academic support units
  • The assessment committee booklet includes a process description and reporting templates (pdf file).
  • Reporting and feedback forms (Word [docx] documents) and timeline (pdf file)..
  • Assessment committee minutes (Word documents).
  • "Best practices" examples (pdf files).
  • Powerpoint presentation on assessment of academic support units.
  • Reports and presentations
  • General education outcomes (Powerpoint file) and assessment report (pdf file).
  • Assessment presentations (pdf & Powerpoint files).
  • Reports to & from NCA on general education assessment at NMSU (pdf files).
  • Guidelines & formats (pdf file) and worksheets (Excel file) for associated community colleges' participation in the assessment process.
  • Reports on assessment of state-level common core (general education) competencies (pdf files).
  • Reports and presentations about assessment (pdf and Powerpoint files).
• A workbook from the Division of Student Success has tips on developing outcomes for Student Affairs programs (pdf file).

Niagara University (New York)

• FAQ about designing outcomes assessment processes.
• Documents: Schedule for assessing academic majors, and reporting forms & guidelines (Word documents).
• Sample reports and rubrics (Word [doc, docx] documents).
• Link to MSCHE assessment documents.

• The Guidelines for writing student learning outcomes includes links to other assessment resources (pdf file).
• General education goals and assessment strategies & results
• Results from surveys of students, alumni, employers, faculty, & staff (pdf files).

North Carolina State University

• University Planning & Analysis 
• Assessment
  • Overview of outcomes assessment at NC State.
  • Links to information about NC State processes to assess undergraduate and graduate programs, general education, distance and online education, student affairs and academic support programs, other administrative programs, and NC State's Quality Enhancement Process Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment.
  • UPA presentations/papers on assessment, and reports on special assessment projects.
  • Links to assessment resources (i.e., this website), and to resources for assessing technology-assisted teaching & learning.
• University surveys: Overview of survey program and reports from surveys of freshmen, sophomores, transfer students, graduating seniors, alumni, and employers, including NSSE results.
• VSA: NC State's College Portrait (pdf file).
• Division of Undergraduate Academic Programs: Office of Assessment
  • Information about NC State's assessment-based (undergraduate) academic program review process (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
  • Assessment plans and reports from DUAP academic support programs.
  • General education requirements (GERs) and assessment.
  • Resources including
    • FAQ
    • Links to information about assessment tools; grant, support, and publishing opportunities for assessment research; on-campus workshops; and other NC State units that provide assist with assessment.
    • Links to other assessment resources.
  • Information about NC State's Annual Undergraduate Assessment Symposium (in 2010 this became the Atlantic Assessment Conference).
• Student Affairs Planning, Assessment, Research and Retention 
• Assessment process & (Word document) reporting instructions.
• Resources include methods cheat sheets (assessment tips) and planning worksheets (Word documents & pdf files).

Northeastern Illinois University

• Assessment FAQ, and pros & cons of various assessment tools (methods). Still to come: links to NEIU- and nationally-developed assessment tools, and a timeline for NEIU assessment activities.
• Information board, with brief reports on assessment topics (pdf files) and links to other assessment resources.
• NEIU's general assessment plan, sample rubrics (pdf files), and links to other institutions' general-education assessment strategies.
• Links to other institutions' strategies for discipline-specific assessment and articles and links to resources for assessment of students' academic development.
• Still to come: Links to and information about assessment of student development programs and of graduate programs.
• University-wide strategic goals and university-level summaries (pdf files) of data from nationally-standardized surveys.
• Descriptions of on-campus assessment workshops, some with associated pdf files, and (outdated) links to information about regional and national conferences.
• Student Affairs Assessment Committee resources (pdf files) include:
• A table of assessment methods used by SA units.
• An assessment glossary.
• Links to other resources.

• Overview of assessment at NEO.
• Templates for reporting program-level and some general education assessment plans and results.
• Annual academic assessment reports include an overview of NEO's assessment process, information about assessment methods, and assessment plans & reports from individual academic programs (pdf files and Word documents).
• Annual institutional assessment reports include results from student surveys and general education assessments, and an overview of academic-program assessment activities (Word documents).

• The annual assessment reports include summaries of institution-wide and individual academic-program assessment methods and results (Word [doc, docx] documents, pdf file).
• Template for reporting assessment activities and results (Word document).
• NSU's College Portrait (pdf file, Word documents).

Northern Arizona University: Office of Academic Assessment

• The assessment handbook (Guide to Program Assessment, Word document) includes an overview of NAU's assessment process.
• Audit and report on degree-program assessment (Word documents).
• Assessment process and reporting templates and review criteria for degree programs' assessment plans and reports (Word documents), and individual programs' assessment plans and reports (pdf files).
• Programs recently receiving NAU's seal of assessment best practices awards. The assessment handbook incudes the award parameters.
• Information about assessment mini-grants (Word document).
• Liberal studies (general education) learning outcomes, assessment process and rubrics.
• Strategies and resources for course-level assessment.
• Process and (Word document) rubrics for assessing NAU's first-year seminar.
• Overview of NAU approaches to assessing e-learning (online courses and activities).
• Student and alumni survey reports, including NSSE results, from the Office of Planning, Budget, and Institutional Research.(Most are pdf files.)
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Overview and online newsletters (pdf file).
• Outcomes assessment
• Assessment handbook (pdf file).
• Reporting templates (Excel files & Word documents) and sample assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
• Note: The template for assessment documentation was not available when last checked.
• Assessment tools used at NECC include individual programs' rubrics, surveys, & evaluation forms (pdf files).
• Presentations from individual academic programs at on-campus assessment summits (pdf files).
• Information about periodic program review (pdf files, Word documents).

Northern Illinois University: Office of Assessment Services

• Overview and (pdf file) university assessment plan.
• Assessment manual.
• Guidelines, timelines, and reporting forms (pdf files, Word documents).
• About assessment plans and annual reports from academic and support programs/units. The annual update reports on units' assessment progress are pdf files.
• Information about NIU projects in assessing writing, critical thinking, capstone courses, and student portfolios (pdf files, Word documents).
• Allumni survey results (pdf & Powerpoint files).
• Minutes & reports from NIU assessment committees (pdf files, Word documents).
• Material from on-campus assessment events, including "best practice" examples (pdf & Powerpoint [pptx] files, Word [docx]documents).
• Toolkit online newsletter (pdf files).
• Resources include: 
• A glossary of assessment terms.
• An Excel table of assessment methods used at NIU.
• Video clips of interviews about assessment with NIU faculty & staff (Windows Media Player files).
• Links to NIU offices supporting assessment activities.

• Overview of assessment at NMU.
• Rubric for evaluating units' assessment reports.
• AQIP documents 
• The AQIP Systems Portfolio includes summaries of NMU's assessment processes (pdf file).
• On NMU's AQIP site, see  About AQIP / Outcomes Assessment Plans and Reports for academic & support unit reporting templates and some individual plans & reports (Word [doc & docx] documents).

Northern Virginia Community College: Office of Academic Assessment

• Note: The pdf files on this site open is a separate window.
• Student learning outcomes
• Institutional effectiveness plan (pdf file) and Powerpoint presentations about assessment at NOVA
• General education goals.
• Format for reporting assessment results.
• Guidelines for assessment methods.
• Program evaluation process & guidelines.
• Assessment and program evaluation reports (pdf files).
• Information for students about some core competency (general education) assessments used at NVCC.
• Resources include:
• On-campus Powerpoint presentations
• Links to other resources.
• CCSSE results from the Office of Institutional Research (pdf files).

• NIC effectiveness indicators include surveys of students, alumni, and area employers. The table of assessment tools lists surveys and survey schedules..
• Summary reports on student learning outcomes assessment projects (pdf files).

Northwest Missouri State University: Office of Assessment, Information, and Analysis

• Information for students, including campus policy and a table of the local and national surveys used.
• Links to other resources.

• History of assessment at NWHSU and overview of current assessment process.
• FAQ and glossary.
• University (general education) outcomes, with pdf links to details.
• Assessment tools: Academic programs' curriculum maps for some general education outcomes (pdf files and Word documents).
• Assessment plan (pdf files and Word documents)
• Feedback-loop diagrams of the assessment process.
• University outcomes.
• Timelines, reporting procedures, templates for academic programs' annual assessment reports and summary of assessment measures, and rubric for evaluating annual assessment reports.

• Information about and from NWOSU's assessment day (mostly pdf files).
• Reports
• The institutional assessment report includes summaries of institution-wide, academic-program, and administrative/service-unit assessment procedures and results (pdf file).
• Note: The HLC self-study was not available when last checked.
• Links to other resources.

• The Student Learning Academy page includes a history of assessment activities at OCC.
• Assessment
• Program assessment
• Overview of the program assessment process at OCC. 
• Guidelines for developing learning outcomes & assessment plans, with links to (pdf files, Word documents) additional resources.
• Template for reporting program assessment plans (Word document).
• Individual programs' assessment-plan status and (pdf files) plans and results.
• Techniques for classroom assessment.
• General education outcomes, assessment methods, and associated rubrics.
• Professional development includes information about on-campus workshops and (coming soon) off-campus oppprtunities.
• The institutional research page includes presentations by OAE staff and a link to an online survey of OCC graduates.

Oakland University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Michigan)

• Overview of assessment and academic program review.
• University assessment plan and roles (Word documents) and summary of assessment methods (Excel file).
• Information about assessment mini-grants, annual assessment awards, and award recipients (Word documents, pdf files).
• Faculty resources: guidelines, evaluation criteria, reporting formats and reporting template (Word documents, pdf files).
• Powerpoint presentation about OU assessment plans.
• Academic departments' assessment plans and examples of assessment rubrics and reports (mostly Word documents, some pdf and Excel files).
• University assessment committee (UAC) procedures, reporting templates & evaluation rubrics (Word documents, pdf files).
• Assessment bibliography and links to other assessment resources.

 Occidental College: Institutional Research and Assessment Group (California)

• Assessment (pdf files)
• Academic assessment
• Guidelines & calendar (pdf files).
• Individual programs' assessment plans (pdf files).
• Academic support assessment
• Overview, guidelines, & outcomes (pdf files), and a tutorial about assessment (Powerpoint file).
• Individual programs' assessment plans (pdf files).
• Survey results are restricted to OC faculty & staff.

• Notes: 
• If the link brings up a page with a menu but no content, select Institutional Research and then Assessment of Student Learning.
• Use the menus at the right side of ONU's pages. Some of the links on the left did not work when last checked.
• Overview and (pdf file) progress report on assessment at ONU.
• General education learning objectives, and overview of university-wide assessment methods and (pdf files) annual reports.
• Academic majors' learning objectives, assessment methods, and (pdf files) assessment reports.
• Assessment committee:
• ONU assessment policy and committee charge and (pdf files) minutes.
• Process for evaluating units' assessment reports, evaluation rubric, and college-level evaluation results (pdf files).

Ohio State University

• College of Engineering 
• Scroll down to Outcomes Assessment.
• The college's assessment model (pdf file).
• Results from surveys of students, alumni, and project/internship supervisors (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
• Office of Student Life: Research and Assessment: Reports from studies and surveys (pdf files).

Ohio University: Office of Institutional Research

• Overview of assessment activities at OU.
• The link at the bottom of the page leads to:
• OU's institutional assessment plan.
• Learning objectives for general education and academic disciplines, and links (mostly pdf files) to survey reports and (older) academic-department assessment reports (Word documents).
• Student involvement and engagement reports including NSSE results (pdf files).
• General education assessment committee reports (pdf files).
• Other, mostly older, assessment reports (pdf files, Word documents, html pages).

• The faculty assessment handbook (pdf file) incudes:
• Philosophy & history of assessment at OCCC.
• FAQ.
• Reporting forms for assessment plans and results.
• An assessment glossary.
• Reporting forms for assessment plans and results (Word documents).
• Outcomes assessment committee goals/objectives and minutes (pdf files).

Oklahoma State University: Office of University Assessment and Testing

• Assessment plans and annual reports
• Guidelines and examples for developing assessment plans and reports.
• Academic programs' assessment plans and annual reports (plans & reports are Word documents, surveys are pdf files).
• General education outcomes, rubrics, and reports (pdf files).
• Information about mini-grants for assessment budgets and special projects.
• Reports from student and alumni surveys, including NSSE results (html pages, pdf files).

Old Dominion University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Virginia)

• Mission and history of the assessment program, and cycle of campus-wide assessment activities.
• FAQ and glossary.
• Information for ODU students about student assessments, including descriptions of university-wide assessments, instructions for participation, and an FAQ.
• Guidelines for academic and administrative units' assessment plans and reports, and access to the WEAVEonline assessment management system and individual units' plans and reports. (Completed plans & reports are pdf files. Access to WEAVE is restricted to ODU faculty & staff.)
• OIRA assessment research reports. (The link says View assessment plans and reports; these are restricted to ODU faculty & staff. The report library in the special interest box on the home page is a pdf list of older reports.)
• Toolbox with hints, guidelines, and suggestions for various assessment methods. Some of these include links to presentations, Word documents, and online resources. The presentations are optimized for Internet Explorer and cannot be viewed with other browsers.
• The Encyclopedia of assessment methodology is a general presentation about assessment (pdf file).
• Topics and facts of special interest about assessment include links to online resources (this page).

• Annual assessment catalogs (pdf files and Word documents) include an overview of assessment at ORU and individual academic programs' assessment methods and (for some programs) rubrics and assessment results.
• Implementation plan for assessment at ORU (pdf file).
• Glossary (pdf file).
• Academic departments' learning outcomes (Word document).
• ORU student outcomes (general education outcomes; Word document), a course inventory template, and an earlier general education assessment presentation of CAAP results.
• Information about e-portfolios at ORU:
• Presentations  and overviews (pdf & mp3 files and Word documents).
• E-portfolio handbooks for students from the general education program and some academic disciplines (pdf files and Word documents).
• Survey results from the Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI, pdf file) and Your First College Year (Powerpoint file).
• NSSE results (pdf files).
• Assessment newsletter (pdf files) and assessment committee information and minutes (pdf files and Word documents).

Oregon State University: Office of Academic Planning and Assessment

• Steps in developing outcomes assessment processes.
• Overview of university-level assessment planning.
• Assessment in the Division of Student Affairs
  • History, policies, guidelines, and tips for assessment planning (pdf files and Word documents).
  • Annual departmental reports, including a survey of departments' assessment activities (pdf files).
  • Survey reports including NSSE results (mostly pdf files).
  • OSU Perspective online assessment newsletter (pdf files).
  • Assessment council minutes.
  • Links to other resources.

• Overview, and ongoing student success projects.
• General education competencies and assessment methods (the details for each competency are pdf files).
• Assessment plans & reports from some academic programs & majors (pdf files).
  
• Student learning assessment committee (mostly pdf files)
• OCC assessment action plan.
• Template and rubric for evaluating assessment plans & reports.
• General education core competencies (Powerpoint file).
• Report on OCC AQIP project.
• Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) statement on student success plans.

Paradise Valley Community College (Arizona)

• Overview of PVCC's assessment initiative.
• Assessment activities are summarized in the chapter on Student Learning and Effective Teaching in PVCC's self-study for HLC (pdf file).
• Assessment handbook. Each chapter is a pdf file.
• General education outcomes and Excel file linking Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) general education competencies to PVCC general education courses.
• Plan for assessing student learning outcomes in mathematics.
• Overview of assessment methods.
• Documents and data includes assessment reports from individual academic divisions and courses, rubrics for general education outcomes, presentations about assessment, assessment-team minutes, and summary reports to MCCCD (mostly Word documents, some Excel, and Powerpoint files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Overview of Park's course-based core assessment process.
• More detailed descriptions are in the HLC monitoring report and appendices (pdf files) and in the News and updates.
• The model core assessment rubrics are Word documents.
• Course-level core learning outcomes, with assessment methods and rubrics.
• Park faculty, staff, & administrators' assessment responsibilities.
• Forms for reporting program-level competencies (outcomes) and assessment methods (available in multiple formats including pdf), and some individual programs' reports (pdf files).
• Guidelines and examples for program-level assessment plans, and individual programs' plans (pdf files).
• Assessment committee minutes and agendas (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Guidelines for developing and assessing student learning outcomes and for reporting assessment plans and results (most are html pages.)
• Template for reporting assessment plans.
• Institutional (general education) learning outcomes & competencies.
• Assessment reporting forms & examples from student learning services.
• Timeline for developing outcomes & assessment processes.
• Resources: Guidelines for developing assessment processes.
• Online newsletter.
• Guide to using the eLumen assessment management system. System access is restricted to PCC faculty & staff.
• The WASC accreditation self study chapter for Standard IB reviews PCC's assessment & planning processes.