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General
resources--discussion groups, lists of links, archives of
articles, etc.
Assessment
handbooks
Assessment of
specific skills or content
Individual
institutions' assessment-related pages
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Student
assessment of courses & faculty
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Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
ACT
- Surveys and assessment tools for colleges &
universities.
- Links to information about other ACT tools for higher
education.
American College Personnel Association's ASK
Project (pdf file): Assessment skills and
knowledge standards for Student Affairs practitioners. From ACPA's Commission for
Assessment for Student Development.
American Evaluation
Association
- Resources
for and information about assessment & evaluation in many
contexts,
including education & higher education. See About Us.
- Topical
interest groups (TIGs): Select Resources, then Professional Groups,
then Topical Interest
Group Websites, then Topical
Interest Group Leadership Directory
for higher education outcomes assessment topics. Email a group's chair
for more information and to join discussions. Some of the
assessment-related TIGs have websites, but the links weren't working
when last checked.
- 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.
Assessing administrative and support units
Assessment
and Accountability Forum
- Quarterly journal on assessment issues in higher education,
published 1991-2002.
- Especially, but not exclusively, issues related to
nontraditional students/education.
- Published by
The Phoenix Institute / InterEd, a for-profit assessment
organization. Forum articles are usually of
general interest, not InterEd sales pitches.
- Some articles are available on-line.
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
- Quarterly journal on assessment issues/methods.
- See article abstracts or purchase full text as pdf or html.
Assessment committees
- 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.
Assessment Grants
- Examples of campus-based programs to
support faculty and departmental assessment projects. Some of
these grant programs are currently active, some are not.
(Thanks to Kurt Gunnell at Kansas State University for posting the
responses from the November 2000 ASSESS-list
discussion on this topic. Some of these links are from Kurt's list.)
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 Resources
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.)
- Brenau
University. Select Forms and Rubrics and
follow the drop-down menus. (Word documents)
- Sites designed for K-12 education, but useful as models and
adaptable for higher education performance assessments.
- Waubonsee
Community College's guide to developing rubrics (pdf file).
- 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.
- Updated versions of Web
Corner columns are available online.
Association for Institutional
Research
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
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
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:
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:
- 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.
College
Portrait, see Voluntary System
of Accountability (VSA)
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..
Collegiate
Learning Assessment (CLA) and Community
College Learning Assessment (CCLA)
Commission
on the Future of Higher Education
- Charged by the U.S. Secretary of Education to develop a
national strategy for postsecondary education. The Commission met
during 2005-2006.
- 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 and regional
assessment conferences and workshops
Consultants
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).
Distance Education
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.)
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.
Faculty attitudes towards outcomes
assessment
- 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.
- Frequently-encountered objections to outcomes assessment
- In the ASSESS
discussion-list archive, see the April 2009 thread Logical fallacies and assessment
- Straw dog/straw man initiated by Stephen Zerwas 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. When last checked it was an ongoing
discussion, so watch for other threads elated to the logical fallacies
theme.
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
Definitions, from California State University, Long Beach
- Assessment
Glossary, from Dartmouth College
- Assessment
Glossary, from Ferris State University
- Assessment
Glossary, from Laramie County Community College
- Assessment
Glossary, from Millersville University.
- Assessment
Glossary from Tulsa Community College.
- Assessment
Glossary, from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- 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..
- 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.
- Glossary,
from Borough of Manhattan Community College's General Education
Assessment Resource Center.
- Glossary,
from Columbus State Community College
- Glossary,
from the Division of Student Affairs at the
University of Georgia.
- 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 SUNY-Potsdam (pdf
document).
- Glossary
of Assessment Terms, from the University of Maryland
University College (pdf file).
- 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.
- 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).
- Terminology
& Definitions, from Oakland Community College.
- 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), Niagara University
(scroll down to the last item), SUNY-Geneseo
(item #7), the University
of Idaho (pdf
file; scroll down to "Why aren't grades enough?") and the University
of Texas System.
- Macalester
College's assessment page,
- 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?",
- Pennsylvania State University's notes on grades
& program assessment (pdf file),
- 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).
Graduate
program 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 / Online Bookstore,
then New
Releases.)
- Conference presentations on graduate-program assessment
Graduate training in outcomes assessment
- 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.
International
Center for Student Success & Institutional Accountability
(ICSSIA)
- Hosts communities of practice (online discussion lists)
including the Practical Assessment
Community of Practice.
- Current research projects include a searcheable database of
information about (some) nationally-standardized surveys and tests.
- Resources:
- Still to come: Links to other
assessment resources.
- In 2008 ICSSIA took over management of the annual International
Assessment & Retention Conference.
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 and Services: Information
from and 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
Institutional support for outcomes assessment
- Assessment directors' salaries
- In the ASSESS
discussion-list archive, select January 2008 and scroll down
to the 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.
- 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.
- Survey
of Assessment Practices in Higher Education
- From Primary Research Group, Inc.
- Benchmarking
study with information from 80+ colleges & universities on
institutional support for assessment, plus methods and impacts.
- Print and PDF versions of this 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.
State-by-state evaluations of higher education
- 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.
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.
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
- NILOA focuses on identifying & promoting effective assessment practices.
- Information about (and, soon, from) an annual survey of higher education assessment practices.
- 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.
- Answers
(Accessing National Surveys With Electronic Research Sources)
- Online tools for information about national datasets of
institutional data (IPEDS, etc.). What surveys are there? What do they
ask? How are standard variables defined? Etc.
- Annotated bibliographies on developing surveys and on
using national datasets.
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 Standardized Instruments
- 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.
- ICSSIA Assessment
Instrument Project: Searcheable database of information about
(some) nationally-standardized surveys and tests. The executive
summary (pdf file) has additional
information about each instrument.
- 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:
- Standardized
Assessment Tools: Annotated links to (some) instruments, from
Oakland Community College.
- Notes:
- Instrument names and details have changed since some of
these reports were published. E.g., ETS'
Academic Profile is now the MAPP
(Measure of Academic Progress & Proficiency) 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:
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.
- 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-Lexington).
- The searcheable archive
also has an online form you can use to join the list.
- COMFO
(College Outcomes Measurement Forum Online)
- 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.
- Practical
Assessment COP (Community of
Practice)
- This was an AAHE COP. AAHE's
website is no longer available. Thanks to Bob Mundhenk, Ray Somera,
Ruth Andes, and the folks at Bakersfield College for reviving Practical
Assessment.
- In July 2007, ICSSIA
began hosting Practical Assessment.
- Go to Communities of Practice,
log in, and select the Practical Assessment Community of
Practice.
- There's a signup procedure for
new participants' login.
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
Source Portfolio (OSP), an open source software project
coordinated with Sakai,
an open source learning environment (course management system) project.
- The article
mentioned in the University of Minnesota Electronic Portfolio entry,
below, includes information about OSP (p. 9).
- 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 Quick Start
Guide (pdf
file), the Training
Manual, and information about the open source version
available for download.
- 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. See Content management.
- CampusTools HigherEd
and CampusWide from TK20 have
portfolio tools as part of a system to gather and organize assessment
information.
- 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.
- 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
Qualitative data analysis methods and tools
- In the ASSESS
discussion-list archive select September 2007 and scroll down
to
the 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.
Service-learning and assessment
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.
- Software and survey-hosting services not included in the
lists above: (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.
- CampusTools HigherEd
and CampusWide from TK20 have survey
tools as part of a system to gather and organize assessment information.
- 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.
- LimeSurvey:
Free open-source survey program.
- 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.
- Survey
Connect from DigitalMeasures.
- 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.
- 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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- CampusTools
HigherEd and CampusWide from Tk20 include
tools for
electronic portfolios and online surveys.
- FASI-Online
assessment documentation system.
- Institutional
Effectiveness Associates offer guidebooks, workshops, and
organizing worksheets.
- 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.
- 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) and Learning Achievement Tools
(LAT).
- 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.
- TracDat
database for assessment processes, information, and reports. From Nuventive.
- TrueOutcomes
Assessment Manager keeps track of course-level learning
outcomes and
can create a course*outcomes matrix.
- 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.
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.
Voluntary
System of Accountability (VSA)
- 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 NASULGC.
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.
Return to the index
How to develop and implement a campus or
departmental
assessment process
- 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)
- 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 in the Undergraduate
Psychology Major (American Psychological Association)
- 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
of Institutional Effectiveness: An Introductory Manual (Texas
Tech University Health Sciences Center, pdf file).
- Assessment
Options: Methods of Collecting Evidence (Arkansas Tech
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
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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- Manual:
Assessment as Scholarship and Learning (Norfolk State
University. Note: This pdf file
is very large [20MB] and takes a long time to load. The title page
looks "landscape" but the text pages are in "portrait" format so you
don't have to rotate the view.)
- 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).
- 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)
- Writing
Student Learning Assessment Reports (American Public
University System)
Evaluating your
institution's assessment practices
Experienced
practitioners' advice for new assessment directors
- 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.
Return to the index
Many of the individual
institutions' assessment-related pages (below) include
discipline-specific assessment plans. Also see the examples
by specific disciplines in Bucknell
University's, College
of Wooster's, Florida
Atlantic University's, Howard
University's, Marquette
University's, North
Carolina State University: Division of Undergraduate Academic Programs',
St.
Cloud State University's,
Skidmore
College's, the University
at Albany's, the
University
of North Carolina-Greensboro's and the University
of South Carolina Aiken's lists of assessment resources. (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
READI:
Readiness for Education at a Distance Indicator
- Evaluate skills, knowledge, & characteristics
associated with success in online learning.
Self
Assessment of Graduate Capabilities
- From Griffith University (Queensland, Australia).
- Helps students evaluate their development of general skills
needed for graduate study.
- Teaching tools to foster development of these skills.
Assessing general
education knowledge and skill areas
- Note: some of the resources listed below
mention ETS's Academic
Profile. See ETS's site for information about the
AP's replacement, the Measure of Academic Proficiency and
Progress (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.
- Collegiate
Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP), from ACT.
- 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
- Mathematics: see STEM
disciplines, below.
- NPEC
Sourcebooks
on Assessment (available as pdf files):
- 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
a new AIR
series on assessment in the disciplines.
- EBI's surveys for
assessment of business/management programs.
- Individual business schools' assessment sites
Chemistry
- The American Chemical Society's Chem Ed
exams in various subareas.
Economics
Engineering
Health Sciences
- EBI's surveys for
assessing nursing programs.
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.
Psychology
Sociology
STEM
disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, &
Mathematics)
- Assessment of Student Learning in College
Mathematics: Towards Improved Programs and Courses, published
jointly by AIR
and MAA. Part of
a new AIR
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).
- 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).
- State
Council of Higher Education for Virginia reports for each
Virginia public institution include
assessment of undergraduate competency in quantitative
and scientific reasoning and technology.
- 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
Workplace readiness
Return to the index
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.
- Rubrics to assess writing.
- Resources:
- A glossary of assessment terms.
- Links to other assessment resources (this page).
- Summary reports from standardized exams.
American
University (Washington, DC)
- About
assessment at AU, including an online newsletter (pdf files).
- Institutional assessment
- AU assessment plan (pdf
file).
- Institutional research data & links.
- 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).
- Resources
- Brief guidelines for programs' assessment plans, a
reporting template (Word
document), and template instructions (pdf file).
- Information about on-campus workshops.
- Links to other assessment resources.
Anderson
University (Indiana)
- 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.
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.)
- Online form for submitting academic assessment plans. (Note: If you want
to see what ASU requires, use the pdf version. You
can't walk through the online form without actually submitting plan
information.)
- Surveys
- Results from surveys of students and alumni (pdf
and *.rtf files).
- Examples of online surveys.
- Reports
- Results from campus-wide surveys and assessments (pdf
files).
Arizona
Western College: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Program
- General education assessment policy and outcomes, with
reports (Word documents) on assessment of gen-ed
outcomes.
- Examples of general education rubrics and academic
programs' learning outcomes.
- 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 (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 information about assessment
workshops & conferences.
Arkansas
Tech University: Institutional Research and Assessment
- FAQs
- About assessment, for faculty and department heads.
- Methods for collecting evidence of student learning (pdf
file).
- Downloadable forms used to document program assessment
activities (Word documents) and examples (pdf
files).
- Rubric to evaluate program assessment reports (pdf
file).
- Application form for assessment mini-grants (pdf
file).
- Reports on CAAP survey of incoming freshmen (pdf
files).
- Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
- Assessment-related reports from recent NCA
accreditation process (pdf files).
- Links to other resources.
Auburn
University: Office of Institutional Research & Assessment
(Alabama)
- A Short Course in Assessment:
Guidelines for assessment plans and reports.
- Annual Degree Program Assessment Reports:
- Instructions for filing assessment plans and
reports (pdf file).
- The online reporting system is restricted to AU
faculty & staff.
- Articles:
- Results from NSSE
and other surveys.
- News releases about US News & World Report
rankings (pdf files).
- CLA results (pdf file).
Augsburg
College (Minnesota)
- The home page has links to recent reports and to Assessment
Jumpstart, an FAQ list for faculty and staff.
- Templates and guidelines includes the
college's assessment plan and Action Plan on Assessment of Student
Learning Action (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.
Barton
County Community College: Office of Instruction and Student Services
(Kansas)
- Overview of assessment at BCCC (pdf file).
- Long-range and annual assessment
plans (pdf
files).
- Information from & about the outcomes assessment committee
(mostly pdf
files, some Word
documents).
- Reports
on course assessment activities (pdf
files).
- Guidelines for course assessment projects (CAPs) and classroom
assessment (CATs)
(pdf files
& Word
documents), CAP reporting template (pdf
file), and online form for CAT reports.
- General
education outcomes (pdf
file) and course requirements (Word
document).
- Graduating student survey results (Excel file).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Bergen
Community
College: Center for Institutional Effectiveness (New Jersey)
- Assessment
- 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 Assessment
page as a separate Word document), and
- the worksheet for reporting
assessment plans and results (Appendix D. Note: The
worksheet link on the Assessment page goes to the Intended
outcomes document [Word]).
- A summary of 2005-06 assessment-related activities.
- Information about
- BCC's assessment
review group and liaisons.
- Compensation
or released time for faculty involved in assessment activities.
- Annual report requirements
(reporting templates: Excel
files). The Key Accomplishments
template is a Word document, not assessment-related.
- BCC's mission & goals, strategic priorities, and
core comptencies (general education outcomes). (Word documents)
- Annual reports
and goals (Intended
Outcomes is a Word
document, not a pdf
file; the others are pdf
files).
- Many of these documents & files are also available
on the Documents page. This page also includes
guidelines for assessing learning 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).
- 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)
- Assessment information
- History and overview of assessment at BSC, and flow
chart & timeline (pdf files) for assessment
process.
- General education philosophy, objectives, and
assessment plan (pdf files). The faculty handbook
was not available when last checked.
- Still to come: similar information
about assessment of occupational programs. Only the list of programs
with licensure or completion exams was available when last checked.
- Assessment results:
- Annual progress reports (Word
documents and pdf
files).
- Reporting matrices (pdf
files).
- Assessment report to HLC
(rtf file).
- Still to
come: results from surveys
and standardized tests.
- Assessment reporting forms for each academic program (Word
documents).
- Links to other assessment resources. Assessment
committee minutes were not available when last checked.
Boise
State
University
(Idaho)
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 and information about CCSSE (some html
pages, some pdf files).
- 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.
- Newsletter (pdf file).
- Links to related articles (pdf
files) and other assessment resources.
Bowdoin
College: Reflective Teaching Project (Maine)
- 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 reports are pdf files; earlier
ones are html
pages).
- Reports from individual departments and programs.
- Guidelines for department/program reports.
- Assessment of Assessment: overviews and suggestions.
- Link to BGSU ePortfolio site.
- Bibliography and links to other assessment resources.
Brenau
University: Office of Assessment (Georgia)
- University purpose and long-range goals.
- Guide to assessment at Brenau.
- Forms for assessment plans & reports (Word
documents).
- General education outcomes (cross-curricular goals) and
associated rubrics (the rubrics are Word 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.)
- Reports from Assessment Day surveys and tests (Word
documents).
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.
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.
- An assessment report to HLC,
restricted to BVU faculty & staff.
- Campus-wide (general education) objectives and rubrics. The
Curriculum Overview has related information.
- Individual academic majors' objectives and assessment
methods. The Handbooks for adjunct faculty in some
disciplines (pdf files) have details about
assessment including discipline and course-level obectives.
- Review form (Word document) for academic
majors'
assessment plans & results.
- The Focus ePortfolio
system 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.
- Assessment reports, including NSSE
results (pdf
files unless otherwise noted).
- Academic Affairs assessment, including:
- BSU principles of assessment.
- Intellectual foundations (general education) outcomes and
overview of assessment process.
- Overview of assessment process for academic majors.
- Assessment newsletter, including:
- Report summaries.
- Intellectual foundations (general education) outcomes
assessed during the current year.
- Template for assessment planss & reports (Word document).
- Assessment-related articles.
- Links to assessment resources (this site).
Butler
University: Office of Institutional Research (Indiana)
- 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) .
- Assessment reports frrom individual academic programs (Word documents).
- Guidelines for administrative program review (pdf file).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Survey reports, including NSSE
results (pdf
files).
- Common data set (pdf
files) and academic-department statistical overviews (IR data, Excel files).
California
Polytechnic State University
- Assessment planning guide and glossary.
- University (general education) learning objectives.
- Assessment activities by academic program (pdf file).
- 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
- Template for program review report includes guidelines
for assessment activities (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. Still to come:
Guide for course-based general education assessment proposals.
- 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).
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).
- Links
to other assessment resources.
- Note: See the
individual entries for notes on assessment at each campus.: Cal Poly, Cal Poly-Pomona,
CSU-Bakersfield,
Channel Islands, 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.
California State
University, Channel Islands
- Information from and about the CSUCI Assessment Council
(agendas and minutes are pdf files).
- The Research Clearinghouse has
summaries of some academic programs' assessment reports and of survey
results. Full reports (pdf files) are available from
each summary.
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.
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 University
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).
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.
- Current faculty projects funded by campus assessment
grants and RFP for new grants.
- Effectiveness:
Examples of using assessment results for
program improvement.
- 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 policies, 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).
- 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).
- Note
The FAQ link on the left-side menu didn't work when last checked. See
the FAQ (Word
document) on the Assessment
Policy page.
California
State University, Los Angeles
- University assessment policy (pdf file).
- Individual academic programs' learning outcomes (pdf files; note: these were
not available when last checked).
- Results from student surveys and standardized exams,
including CLA and NSSE results (pdf files).
- Guidelines for assessing student learning outcomes (pdf
file).
- Tools & resources: Rubrics, 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
- Goals and outcomes.
- Assessment policy and plan.
- Program review report (pdf file).
- Reports from older general education assessment
projects
(some html files, some pdf
files).
- Information about periodic academic program review.
- Institutional research
California
State University, Northridge: Academic Assessment Liaison
Committee
- CSUN statements about assessment:
- Interdisciplinary perspectives (html page and pdf file).
- Assessment
at CSUN: Provost's statement on assessment.
- Student learning outcomes for each academic program
(catalog pages; scroll down to student learning outcomes).
- Fundamental learning competencies (general education
outcomes) and previous document (pdf
file) on general education learning outcomes.
- Assessment glossary (Word document).
- Forms for reporting assessment plans and results (Word
documents).
- Guidelines and tips: sampling, course alignment matrices (Word
documents).
- Program review information (Word
documents).
California State
University, Sacramento
- Overview of academic-program assessment and assessment
cycle, and university assessment statement (pdf
file) and policy.
- Program portfolios for individual academic programs include
assessment plans and learning outcomes. Assessment plans and reports
are also available from separate menus. Some of these documents
are html pages, some are pdf
files.
- 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. The Reports
tab at the top of the page leads to results from surveys of students
and faculty, including NSSE
results (pdf
files).
- Information about Student Affairs Assessment
at Sacramento State.
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
- Reporting templates for student learning outcomes (Excel
file) and assessment plans and reports (Word
documents).
- Academic programs' student learning outcomes and
links to
assessment information from some disciplines' national associations and
discipline-specific accreditors.
- Program portfolios, available for some departments, include
learning outcomes, assessment plans, and reports. (Plans
& reports are pdf
files.)
- Assessment glossary.
- Request form for assessment mini-grants (Word
document).
- Presentations from assessment workshops (Powerpoint
files).
- Information about academic program reviews:
- FAQ, calendar and schedule of reviews.
- Guidelines (the current assessment-based guidelines are a
pdf file; the older program-review guidelines
are a Word document).
- Assessment-related information: Glossary, student
learning outcomes reporting matrix (Excel file),
mini-grant request form (Word document).
- Program review reports from some departments (menus lead
to pdf files).
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).
- Information about assessment funding (pdf
files).
- Procedures for academic program review and review of
support units.
- 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).
- 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.
- The Office of Institutional
Research site, with CSUS's College
Portrait (pdf
file).
Cameron University: Office
of Institutional Research and Assessment (Oklahoma)
- Overview of CU institutional effectiveness and program
assessment processes.
- Assessment tools: Guidelines for developing assessment
plans.
- Program review schedule (Excel file).
Camosun
College: Learning and Teaching Centre (British Columbia,
Canada)
- Guidelines for developing & implementing outcomes
assessment processes.
- These are general guidelines, applicable to assessing
academic programs, individual courses, and individual students.
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.
Central
Piedmont Community College (North Carolina)
- 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.)
Central
Michigan University
- 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.
- Help: Materials from on-campus workshops
(most are pdf files).
- Information from and about assessment committees
at CMU (agendas & minutes are pdf files).
Chandler-Gilbert
Community College (Arizona)
- History of assessment at CGCC.
- Goals of the Student Learning Outcomes
Assessment project (SLOAC). Agendas & minutes are restricted to
CGCC faculty & staff. (Archived
minutes are available as pdf
files.)
- CGCC and outcomes assessment
- General education learning outcomes (pdf files).
- Assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
- Instructional goals (Word
documents).
- SLOAC newsletter (Word
documents).
- Examples of assessment assignments and rubrics (pdf
files).
- Summary reports for the Maricopa County CC District
and NCA-HLC
(pdf files).
Chapman
University (California)
- 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.
Christopher
Newport University: Office of Assessment, Evaluation, and Accreditation
(Virginia)
- 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.
- Links to assessment resources
- Still to come: FAQ and assessment tips.
Clark
State Community College (Ohio)
- General education outcomes and rubrics.
- See Academics
/ Majors and programs for individual degree programs'
learning outcomes.
- Guidelines and reporting template for assessment plans and
results (pdf
file).
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 the university
assessment committee.
- Clemson's College
Portrait
(pdf file).
- Access to and instructions for WEAVEOnline. (Access is restricted to
Clemson faculty & staff.)
Cleveland
State
University: Student Learning Assessment (Ohio)
- Overview and FAQ for assessment at CSU, and university
policies and general 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.
Coastal
Carolina University: Office of Institutional Research, Assesment and
Analysis (South Carolina)
- Overview of assessment at CCU.
- Guidelines for annual assessment reports. (The Assessment Plan Composers
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.
College of Charleston:
Office of Accountability, Accreditation, Planning and Assessment
(South Carolina)
- 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).
College
of William and Mary: Office of Strategic Planning & Analysis
(Virginia)
- PIE (Process of Institutional
Effectiveness) framework for outcomes assessment and schedule for PIE
reviews of academic departments and programs.
- Information about the previous concentration review
(program review) process for academic departments and programs.
- General education requirements,
assessment (PIE) framework, and information about W&M's
course-portfolio review
process.
- Assessment tools:
- Rubrics and scoring guides for general education
portfolios and other assessments.
- Discussion guides for focus groups.
- 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:
Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning
(Ohio)
- Tools
- Assessment handbook (Guidelines for Assessment, pdf file).
- Annual report template (pdf file).
- Plans and reports
- The matrix
of departments' assessment plan components is restricted
to Wooster faculty & staff.
- Academic departments' assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
- Guidelines for periodic curricular (program) review (pdf file).
- General education assessment plans & procedures (pdf files).
- Still to
come: Guidelines, etc. for assessing academic support
areas.
- Information for students
about outcomes assessment at Wooster (pdf files).
- Resources
- Departments' assessment measures and plans (pdf files).
- Access to online surveys used by some departments. (Use
these as examples; please
do not submit data.)
- Links to other assessment resources, including resources
for specific academic majors.
- Descriptions & reports of assessment-related
projects.
- Assessment
Matters online newsletter (pdf files).
- Information about & from the assessment committee.
(Minutes & reports are pdf
files.)
Colorado State
University
- 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: Office of Assessment (Ohio)
- CSCC assessment plan (pdf file).
- Assessment toolbox
- FAQ and other resources.
- Glossary.
- Forms for reporting and reviewing assessment plans (pdf
files).
- Assessment handbook (pdf file).
- General education outcomes.
- Learning outcomes from individual academic programs.
- Roles of various assessment committees.
Community College
of Aurora (Colorado)
- 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).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Community
College of Baltimore County (Maryland)
- CCBC's assessment philosophy. Also see the institutional-level assessment
page.
- General education assessment
- Overviews. 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 and examples of course-level
assessment projects (pdf
files).
- RFPs for program-level
projects assessing program and core-competency outcomes, and reports
from some projects (pdf
files).
- Report on an institutional-level
faculty development project (pdf
file.)
- Information about and from CCBC's overall and
general-education assessment advisory boards (mostly pdf files).
Concordia
College: Assessment and Institutional Research (Minnesota)
- Assessment plan (list of current & proposed
assessment activities; pdf
file).
- FAQ about assessment at Concordia.
- Report on status of core and departmental assessment
(restricted to
Concordia faculty and staff).
- Goals for liberal learning (general education outcomes),
principles of assessment good practice (pdf files).
- Application for assessment grants and list of recent grant
projects.
- Information for students about assessment. The
Assessment
and You newsletter for students is restricted to
Concordia faculty, staff, and students.
- Resources
- Resources available on campus and links
to other assessment websites.
- Assessment committee rubric for evaluating reports.
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 document).
- 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 programs' outcomes,
and assessment results & impacts (Word [.docx]
documents).
- Policies governing discipline-specific assessment in
undergraduate and graduate programs.
- Information for students about standardized instruments
used for general education and major-field assessment.
- Information about and from DSU's Academic Quality Improvement
Project (AQIP) includes assessment results and impacts.
- Institutional
research: Results from surveys of students, alumni, and
faculty, including NSSE data (pdf
and Excel
files).
Dalton
State College: Office of Institutional Research & Planning
(Georgia)
- The Institutional Effectiveness page
was being revised when last checked. The previous version included
assessment policies, plans, and reports.
- 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 Internet 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 for developing assessment plans.
- Still to come: The links were
not active when last checked.
- Assessment help: Tips, guidelines, examples.
- Individual academic
departments' assessment profiles.
- Assessment books and articles available in the DVC library,
and links to other assessment resources.
Del Mar College:
Institutional Research and Effectiveness (Texas)
- 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 data is restricted to
Del Mar faculty & staff.)
- Special reports include results from
student surveys (pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Delta College
(Michigan)
- Assessment plan (Word document) and
implementation diagram (rtf document).
- Guidelines for developing program learning outcomes (rtf
document) and principles of good assessment pracice (Word
document).
- Directions for using DC's assessment database (Word
document) and sample assessment report using database information (rtf
document).
- Learning outcomes for individual academic programs (pdf
files).
- General education outcomes.
- Information about the academic assessment committee and
from on-campus assessment conferences (Word
& rtf
documents, Powerpoint
files, html
pages).
- Still to come:
- Assessment references and links.
- Reporting forms.
DePaul
University: Office for Teaching, Learning & Assessment
(Illinois)
- Overview of assessment at DPU. (Still to come: Information about school/college and co-curricular assessment.)
- Assessment resources include templates for submitting assessment goals and reports (most are Word
documents).
DePauw
University (Indiana)
- Guidelines for departmental review include outcomes
assessment requirements.
- Links to assessment resources.
Diablo
Valley College: Office of Planning, Research and Student Outcomes
(California)
- 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.
- Downloadable reporting templates and guidelines (pdf files).
- Online newsletter (pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Dominican
University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Illinois)
- 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.
- Online newsletters from the assessment committee.
- Academic programs' assessment plans and activities.
- The committee's evaluations of assessment reports and
feedback to individual academic programs.
- Results from surveys of students, alumni, and faculty,
including NSSE and FSSE data,
and some institutional research data (some HTML pages, some pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Doña
Ana Community College (New Mexico)
- 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 (Word
& rtf
documents).
- Individual programs' student learning outcomes, assessment
plans, and reports (Word documents).
- Toolbox:
- Brief language of assessment glossary
(Word document).
- Rubrics for assessing general education outcomes (Word
documents).
- Checklist for creating writing assignments, and student
evaluation of assignments (Word
documents).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- DACC's HLC
self-study (pdf
file).
Duquesne University
(Pennsylvania)
- DU assessment plan.
- Instructions, forms, & examples for reporting
assessment plans and results (html pages, pdf
file, Word documents).
- FAQ.
- Dimensions of a DU Education: General
education goals & outcomes.
- Information about assessment mini-grants.
- DU Assessment Studies: NSSE results.
- Links to other assessment resources.
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
- departmental assessment plans and reports, and summary
form for submitting plans/reports (rtf documents).
- Primary Trait Analysis rubric for evaluating
department's progress developing and using outcomes assessment (pdf
file).
- Undergraduate and graduate assessment
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 home page. Some of the information about
specific projects is in pdf files; some is in Word
or rtf documents.)
- Results from surveys of seniors and alumni (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
- 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).
- University
assessment: NSSE results (html
pages, pdf
& Excel
files).
- Information from the University Assessment Committee (pdf files).
- Information about assessment mini-grants and EKU
"best-practice" examples.
- Information about using TracDat
to
organize assessment information (the TracDat Manual
is a pdf file).
- Resources
include:Powerpoint
presentations on developing an assessment plan (pdf files), an
online newsletter
(pdf
files), and
links to other assessment resources.
Eastern
Michigan University
- Goals, vision, and models for assessment at EMU.
- Information about surveys used at EMU.
- National surveys, including results from HERI surveys.
- EMU's own surveys.
- Links to online resources, guidelines, and facts about EMU.
Eastern New Mexico University: Assessment Resource Office
- Information for faculty, including an
assessment manual and information about assessment instruments used at
ENMU.
- Information for students, including
students' roles, responsibilities, and activities, and about ENMU's assessment
day.
- Assessment data:
- Online form to request data reports (restricted to ENMU
faculty & staff).
- The DATAWave, a campus newsletter
about assessment activities and results (pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Eastern
Oregon University
- Course-based general
education assessment: Plan (pdf file) and
reporting template (Excel
file).
- The First
Year Experience link leads to information about the
program but not about assessment.
- Portfolios
from some academic programs (pdf
files, Word
documents).
- SLOAP
(Student Affairs assessment)
- Outcomes domains and assessment process and templates.
- Department outcomes and assessment reports (pdf files, Word documents).
- Results from surveys about EOU's advising process (pdf files).
El Camino
College (California)
- History of assessment at ECC, including Powerpoint files
from on-campus workshops.
- Working definitions (glossary of assessment terms).
- Core (general education) competencies (draft).
- Guiding principles for developing & implementing
outcomes assessment processes.
- Reporting forms and worksheets for learning outcomes
& assessment plans, with examples (Word documents).
- Progress reports on assessment at ECC (Word documents).
- Overview of assessment in student services areas.
- Assessment committee agendas & minutes (Word documents)
- Resources include
- ECC outcomes assessment handbooks (Word documents).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Elon
University: Institutional Research Office (North Carolina)
- Overview of institutional-level 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 on-campus assessment forum (Word document).
- 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 (general education outcomes) matrix.
- Information about the EZ
online process for reorting assessment activities. The EZ process
itself is restricted
to EMCC faculty & staff.
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.
- 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.
- Academic profiles: General education assessment at FSU
- General education outcomes.
- Academic 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).
- Guidelines and strategies for program-level assessment, and
information about periodic academic program
review.
- 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.
- Material from on-campus workshops and faculty reports from
assessment conferences (pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Florida
A&M University: Office of University Assessment
- 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 (some pdf files; most are Word documents).
- Individual degree programs' academic
learning compacts (ALCs) include
learning outcomes and assessment methods (Word
documents).
- Assessment communications:
- Annual reports on assessment activities & status (pdf & Excel files).
- Newsletter (pdf
files).
- Policies & procedures for assessment activities (Word documents).
- 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 a Powerpoint presentation of NSSE results.
- Minutes from institution-wide and general-education assessment
committees (Word documents).
- Materials from on-campus professional development
activities (Powerpoint presentations).
- Guidelines and templates for periodic program
review and discipline-specific accreditation
review (pdf and Excel files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Florida Atlantic
University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis
- Assessment
- Academic Learning Compacts have
academic
programs' content-based and general education student learning goals (pdf
files). The general information documents include pdf,
Word, and Powerpoint
files.
- The Assessment Database is restricted
to FSU faculty and staff.
- Assessment resources has extensive
links to other assessment resources.
- Analyses & Reports: Results from
surveys of enrolled students, graduating seniors, and
alumni, including NSSE results.
- The academic reporting matrix in Forms
& Guides includes assessment timelines and
responsibilities.
- Some presentations
(Powerpoint
presentations, pdf files and Word
documents)
deal with assessment at FAU.
- The departmental dashboard
indicators in Department
& Program Review do not include assessment
activities or results (rtf
documents).
Florida
Community College at Jacksonville
- Workforce program assessment
- Overview of program assessment at FCCJ (Powerpoint
file).
- Program Development Handbook chapter on assessing
academic programs (pdf file).
- Sample assessment plans (Word
document).
- The call for pilot projects includes an overview and a
reporting format for assessment plans (Word
document).
- Worksheets and templates, including an assessment plan
outline
and templates for describing assessment methods and project progress (Word
documents).
- Links to other assessment resources. (The general
education outcomes and the assessment bibliography are Word
documents).
- Classroom assessment
- Implementation packet (Word documents)
with guidelines and reporting templates for classroom-based assessment
of student learning outcomes.
- Sample classroom assessment plans (Word
documents).
- The Participant Handbook leads to workshop materials
about classroom assessment (pdf files and Word
documents).
- Links to other resources about classroom assessment (web
pages, pdf and Powerpoint
files, Word documents).
Florida Gulf
Coast University: Office of Planning and Institutional Performance
- Overview diagram of FGCU assessment process.
- 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 (Integrated Program Matrix
pdf files).
- Administrative units' assessment plans (mht
files open in Internet
Explorer).
- 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).
Fort
Lewis College (Colorado)
- 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).
Fresno City College
(California)
Gateway
Community College: Office of Research & Planning
(Arizona)
- Student Academic Achievement Plan for assessing general
education outcomes (pdf file).
- Results from student satisfaction survey (pdf
file).
George Mason University:
Office of Institutional Assessment (Virginia)
- Policy and mission for institutional assessment and
academic program evaluation.
- Assessment methods for statewide general-education
competencies and a report on
GMU's assessment results and impacts (pdf files).
- Academic program review
- Program review guidebooks (pdf files)
and schedule.
- Resources include:
- reporting templates (Word
documents),
- a guide to creating learning outcomes, and
- current surveys (pdf files), survey
policy, and suggested survey cover letters (Word
documents).
- Student and alumni surveys, in online and pdf
versions. The online versions are only available to GMU students,
faculty, &
staff.
- Data and reports:
- Results from surveys of
freshmen, graduating seniors, and alumni, and GMU's NSSE
results (some pdf files, some HTML
pages).
- A report on GMU's participation in the
NSSE-related DEEP project (Documenting Effective
Educational Practice, pdf file).
- Eye on Assessment newsletter (pdf
files).
- Information about and results from University Life (student
affairs) assessment.
- Information about WEAVEonline
(html pages, pdf files, and Word
documents; WEAVE login is restricted to GMU faculty & staff).
- Links to other resources, on- and off-campus.
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
- 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 and instructions for the WEAVEonline
assessment reporting system (GSU's WEAVE portal is restricted to GSU
faculty & staff).
- Office
of Institutional Research reports from surveys of students
and alumni, including NSSE and
CSXQ (College Students Experiences Questionnaire) results (pdf
files).
- Assessment in administrative
and support units.
- Assessment plan and reports (some html
files, some Word documents, some rtf
files).
- Access to WEAVE (restricted to GSU faculty &
staff).
- Links to other resources.
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 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 and
(previously-used) templates for assessment reports (MSWord
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.
Harold
Washington College (Illinois)
- About assessment at HWC. See the committee charge, goals, objectives,
activities,
and.conceptual
framework.
- Still to come:
Links to online resources for program, course, and
classroom assessment.
- A 2005 description of HWC's
general education assessment process is available in the Office
of Community College Research and Leadership online
newsletter.
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.
Hocking
College: Office of Student Academic Achievement (Ohio)
- Note:
Links in these pages become visible when you scroll over them.
- College assessment and student success plans (pdf
files).
- Guidelines and rubrics for assessment
(pdf files)
and links to related websites. (The sample e-portfolio
is restricted to HC faculty & staff.)
- Individual academic programs' assessment plans
& results (pdf files).
- Still to come:
- Assessment information for students.
- FAQ.
- Reports on institutional assessment and the impact of HC
student learning experiences.
Hogeschool von
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- 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.
Howard
University (Washington, D.C.)
- 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.
- Assessment plans and
reports for individual academic and co-curricular units are restricted to ISU
faculty & staff.
Illinois College
- The assessment
handbook (pdf
files) includes policies, guidelines, and reporting forms for academic
programs and administrative & support units..
- The assessment
plan includes methods for college-wide and individual-unit
assessment, and the assessment
report includes results (pdf files)
Illinois
Institute of Technology
- Scroll down for assessment plans from some academic
programs (pdf
files).
Illinois State
University: University Assessment Office
- Individual academic departments' 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.
- Reports from surveys of graduating seniors (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.
- Summary reports of division- and unit-level assessment
activities (pdf files).
- 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 minutes of the Assessment
Council.
- Assessment terms.
- Assessment reports from some academic and administrative
units (html summaries; the full reports are pdf
files).
- Activities: Campus-level reports (pdf
files) and assessment calendar.
- Downloadable forms for academic and co-curricular
assessment plans and reports (pdf files, Word
documents, Excel file).
- 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
- IPFW assessment plan, and action plan (pdf
file) for implementing assessment.
- Assessment plans for individual undergraduate and graduate
programs (pdf files) and schools' annual assessment
reports with feedback on programs' assessment activities (pdf
files, Word documents, html
pages. The approval process for new and changes assessment
plans is an Excel file.)
- Template for school/college reports on individual programs'
assessment activities.
- General education objectives (pdf file)
and general studies biannual assessment reports (pdf,
Word,
and html files; in Academic Program
Assessment / School
Annual Assessment Reports).
- Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf
file).
- 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: some of these are html
pages but most are pdf files available for download
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.
- 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
- 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.
- Tutorials on developing objectives, outcomes, and
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.
Indiana University
Southeast
- 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 and reporting templates are pdf
files.
- Reports on academic programs' progress with their
assessment processes.
- 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.
- Bibliography and links to other assessment resources.
Indiana Wesleyan
University
- History and structure of assessment in traditional
programs, and program review schedule.
- Assessment in adult & graduate programs.
- 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 include learning
outcomes, assessment methods, and results.
- The Center
for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
has guidelines
for assessment at ISU and links to assessment resources.
Isothermal
Community College (North Carolina)
- 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.
- Checklist for evaluating student portfolios (Excel
file) and 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)
- Assessment: Student and alumni surveys
used at JSU. Some survey results 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 assessment activities at JMU.
- 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.
- 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 outcomes.
- Information about surveys and survey projects.
- Links to other assessment resources.
Johnson County
Community College: Office of Institutional Research (Kansas)
- Assessment
- Reports of follow-up studies of JCCC students (Word
documents).
- General education learning outcomes
and assessment processes. Also see the general
education assessment plan (pdf file).
- Program review process.
- Survey and other assessment results. (Word
documents. See both Report Summaries and specific
links on Assessment page.)
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, and reporting templates.
- 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).
- Resources include:
- On-campus workshops and assessment-related events.
- Assessment Update online newsletter (pdf
files).
- 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)
- 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.
Lander
University: Office of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness
(South Carolina)
- Academic programs' and general education assessment plans
and reports (pdf
files).
- Results from MAPP assessment of some general education
outcomes (Word
documents).
- Results from NSSE
and
other surveys (pdf
files).
- Strategic goals reporting calendar and "report cards" (Word documents).
- Accountability and institutional effectiveness reports to
the SC Commission on Higher Education
(pdf files).
Lane
Community College: Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning
(Oregon)
- Planning Process: Guidelines, tips for
developing assessment plans.
- Plans and Reports:
- Assessment plans (pdf
files) include program outcomes, assessment methods, and assessment
results. What's reported varies from program to program.
- Assessment project reports and resources. The Spring 2008
resources include Lane's core abilities (general education outcomes). The critical
thinking rubric is a pdf
file.
- Student Success includes some
student-survey results.
- Information about academic program review.
- Learning about assessment
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Material from on-campus workshops & seminars
(mostly pdf
files).
- The faculty
development modules are pdf files.
- Other Resources: The National
CC Benchmark Project reports in the institutional
effectiveness section includes additional LCC student-survey
results.
- Links to other resources.
Laramie
County Community College (Wyoming)
- Overview of assessment at LCCC.
- Processes for:
- Course assessment, including reporting forms (Word and rtf documents) and
general education outcomes.
- Academic program assessment, including reporting form (rtf document).
- General education assessment.
- Assessment glossary.
- Links to other assessment resources.
Lincoln
College (Illinois)
- Overview of assessment at LC.
- Calendar of survey assessments.
- Summary of results from the SSI (Student Satisfaction
Inventory).
Lincoln
University (Missouri)
- Overview of assessment at LU.
- An FAQ for students about GET (general education
testing) at LU.
- Major field assessment exams used by individual academic
programs, with a testing schedule.
- An overall assessment progress report and reports from
surveys of continuing and graduating students
and from some standardized general-education and discipline-area tests (pdf
files).
- 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 and accountability reports to the
state higher-education system (Word documents and pdf
files).
- Access to TracDat
is restricted
to
LHUP faculty & staff.
Long Beach City College:
Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes Committee (California)
- Principles and description of assessment, and materials
from an on-campus workshop.
- FAQ.
- LBCC core competencies (general education outcomes).
- Examples of student learning outcomes (SLOs) and a form (pdf file) for
reporting SLOs.
- Available books and links to other assessment resources.
Long Island University
(New York)
- Reporting forms for academic and student services units (Word documents).
- Examples of learning goals for academic units (Word document) and
guidlines on learning outcomes for student services units (Powerpoint file, Word document).
- Documents
for academic deans: Guidelines for developing &
implementing assessment plans (pdf
files, Word
documents).
- LIU Brooklyn
campus assessment website
- Overview of assessment at the Brooklyn campus.
- Reporting matrix & guidelines for assessment
plans & reports.
- Status
of individual academic & student services units' assessment
plans
& reports (the plans & reports themselves are restricted to
LIU-Brooklyn faculty & staff).
- Core curriculum (general education) learning goals
& outcomes.
- Information from on-campus workshops & events (pdf files,
some restricted
to LIU-Brooklyn faculty & staff)
- Online forum for discussion of LIU-Brooklyn assessment
activities.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Links to assessment resources from LIU and other
institutions (html
pages, pdf files,
Word
documents).
Lord
Fairfax
Community College: Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Office
(Virginia)
- 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).
Lourdes
College (Ohio)
- 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).
Loyola Marymount University: Office of Assessment (California)
- 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).
- Still to come: LMU best-practice examples.
Loyola
University Chicago: Office of Learning Technologies & Assessment
(Illinois)
- Overview of assessment at LUC.
- Guidelines, with links to other assessment resources.
- Resources available through LUC library (restricted to LUC
students, faculty, & staff).
Macalester
College: Assessment Office (Minnesota)
- Assessment at Macalester
- College assessment plan (pdf file).
- FAQ about assessment at Macalester.
- Inventory of assessment
resources
- Guide to developing
departmental assessment plans (pdf file) and
reporting template (Word
document).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Additional resources
- 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)
- Assessment process and timeline (pdf
file).
- FAQ.
- MATC core abilities (general education outcomes).
- Documents and downloads includes:
- Overview of MATC's assessment plan (pdf
file).
- Instructions and example for learning outcomes
matrix assessment reporting form (pdf
files).
- Information about the learning outcomes assessment dabase
(pdf file; access to the database itself is
restricted to MATC faculty & staff).
- Core abilities (general education
outcomes) -- pdf
files:
- Handbook for instructors.
- Indicators, rubrics, and course-level reporting form.
- Template and examples for reporting core/program
outcomes and assessment results.
- Information about MATC's Blackboard-based self-paced training
process for outcomes assessment. Assessment Resources
overviews what's available on the training site,
including links
to other assessment resources. Access to the site is
restricted to MATC faculty & staff.
- Learning Systems Quality Improvement Process
(LSQIP): Program review process for academic and
support units (pdf files and Word
documents).
- Principles and process.
- Program-portfolio and reporting guidelines.
- Information about MATC's AQIP
project.
- Assessment mentors for MATC faculty.
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. Links to resources
on classroom assessment are provided by MU's Center for the
Advancement of Teaching & Learning.
Marietta
College: Assessment Committee (Ohio)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
McKendree
University (Illinois)
- Overview of McKendree's online 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 assessment
page is restricted to McKendree faculty & staff.
Meredith
College: Office of Research, Planning, & Assessment
(North Carolina)
- Guidelines for continuous
improvement (pdf
files).
- Individual programs' continuous improvement reports
& plans (Word
documents).
- General education learning outcomes (pdf file).
- Program review guidelines and calendar (pdf
files, html
pages).
- Reports
& surveys include results from standardized
surveys & assessments such as NSSE
(restricted
to Meredith faculty & staff).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Mesa
Community College: Office of Research & Planning
(Arizona)
- FAQ about assessment at MCC.
- General education outcomes (pdf file).
- Recent assessment results and previous highlights.
- Information for students about assessment.
- Tips for faculty administering assessments.
- Student Outcomes Committee information and Results Outreach
Committee mini-grant information and forms.
Metropolitan State
College of Denver: Office of Student Services Assessment
(Colorado)
- Assessment resources
- Framework for student services assessment at MSCD (pdf file).
- Assessment handbook (pdf
file).
- Format and evaluation rubric for assessment plans and
reports (Excel
files), and reporting instructions.
- Learning outcome categories, definitions, and outcome
examples (pdf
files).
- NSSE results.
- Information from assessment workshop (html pages, p;df files, Word documents).
- The assessment
reports are restricted to MSCD faculty & staff.
Miami
University (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.
- Current projects:
- Brief descriptions of current assessment projects at
Miami. Further details on individual project pages are usually pdf
files.
- Information about assessment mini-grants, including
application (pdf file) and recent recipients.
- Brief descriptions of national and locally-developed
surveys conducted by Miami's Office of Institutional research. Survey
results are available from OIR for Miami faculty and staff.
- Assessment of Miami Plan (general
education) courses.
- Information about Miami Plan courses.
- Guidelines for assessment reports.
- Report of assessment task force (pdf
file).
- History of Miami Plan assessment, assessment models,
design issues, and characteristics of an effective course assessment.
- Assessment reports as part of program review, with
examples.
- Assessment reports and questionnaires from First Year
Seminars (pdf files).
- Assessment Briefs online newsletter (pdf
files) and information about assessment-related luncheon meetings and
workshops.
Middle Tennessee State
University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning and Research
- Resources
include the MTSU institutional
effectiveness handbook, with information about assessment at MTSU
and tips for conducting outcomes assessment (pdf files).
- 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.
- Institutional
effectiveness plans for academic, administrative, and support units.
Academic-unit plans include learning outcomes and assessment results.
(Select Institutional
Effectiveness Plans and use the link that says old programs for viewing plans.
The other links are 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 plans and
reports (Word and Word 2007 [.docx] documents).
- Reports and surveys
- Middle States
5-year review report (pdf file, in Reports
and Surveys) includes sections on assessment.
- Annual assessment reports to the state university system (Excel
files and Word documents).
- Results from surveys of students and faculty, including NSSE results (Excel
and pdf files).
Millikin
University (Illinois)
- Tips for developing an assessment plan. (The Guide to Development
is the same text in rtf
format.)
- Reporting template for assessment plans (rtf file).
- The Millikin
Major overviews the structure of an academic major,
emphasizing approaches to assessing student learning (Word document).
The Study of
Capstones (rtf
file) summarizes individual majors' capstone experiences.
- Tables of assessment plans received from academic programs (Word documents).
- Learning outcomes and summaries of assessment plans for
individual academic programs, with links to (Word documents)
full plans and reports.
- General
education assessment: Links to general education outcomes
and assessment plans & reports for each general ed area (Word documents and rtf files).
Mississippi
State University
- Office
of Institutional Research: Assessment
- Instructions for institutional effectiveness/assessment
report (Word
documents).
- Annual reports from Academic Profile and College BASE
assessment of
general education outcomes (pdf files).
- Other results from surveys of students, alumni, etc. (pdf
files).
- 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 (still to come)
guidelines for developing assessment processes.
Missouri Southern State
University: Center for Assessment and Institutional Research
- Overview of MSSU assessment activities.
- Information
about national and locally-developed instruments used to assess general
education, academic majors, and student development.
- Teacher education assessment results (pdf file).
- MSSU's NSSE results.
Missouri
State University: Center for Assessment and Instructional Support
- Academic
quality: MSU assessment plan.
- About the
CAIS
- Information about assessment at MSU.
- National surveys used in assessment process.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Tables
of assessment methods used by each academic program.
- Exit exam:
Information about and student registration for the MAPP
general education assessment (html
pages, pdf
files).
- Assessment reports
- Audiovisual presentation on developing an assessment report.
- Checklist
and outcomes matrix
for developing & reporting an assessment process. The
downloadable versions are a Word
document (checklist) and an Excel
file (matrix).
- Report
review process: Powerpoint
presentation about the process for reviewing annual assessment reports.
- Rubric:
Topics in the annual assessment report and the
rubric used in the evaluation process. The downloadable version is
a Word
document.
- Chart R:
information about annual program review measures (restricted
to MSU faculty & staff).
- Information about MSU's assessment council.
Moberly Area
Community College: Institutional Effectiveness (Missouri)
- About assessment at MACC.
- Student
learning: General processes for assessing student learning
outcomes.
- Assessment processes in academic programs, including
general education.
- Online Assessment
in Action newsletters; some issues include assessment
results.
- Processes for evaluation of faculty, administration, and
support services.
- Information about the assessment advisory committee.
- Information about academic program review.
- Institutional research results related to student progress.
Modesto Junior College
(California)
- 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 support 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)
- Brief description of university assessment plan.
- Examples of program changes as a result of assessment.
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 an assessment guide for academic department heads (pdf
files).
- Links to descriptions of general education
at
MSU. No information on general education assessment.
- Information about capstone courses.
- Surveys and related data,
including
- retention and graduation rates.
- senior & alumni survey results (note:
these are not current data).
- Links to assessment resources (this
website).
Montgomery
College (Maryland)
- Overview, and guiding principles for assessment at MC.
- Assessment plan for academic programs.
- Forms and instructions for reporting academic departments'
assessment plans
& results (Word documents).
- Glossary & FAQ.
- Resources include:
- Assessment handbook, full and "Cliff Notes" versions (pdf
files).
- Timeline and responsibilities (pdf
file).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Assessment newsletter (pdf
file).
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)
- Senior learning outcomes assessment methods used by each
academic major.
- Outcomes results from nationally standardized tests of
general education and some major fields (pdf files).
- Annual reports of university- and major-level assessment
results (pdf files).
- A comparison of portfolio and standardized-test assessment
strategies.
- Powerpoint presentations about
developing & implementing assessment, and pdf
document with links to other assessment resources.
National
Park Community College (Arkansas)
- About assessment at NPCC.
- Guidelines for academic program assessment
- General education objectives and
assessment process.
- Links to other assessment resources (this
page).
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 and student support assessment committee
reports and reporting templates (pdf
files and Word documents).
- Assessment handbook, Assessment Revisited: A Guide to
De-Cluttering the Assessment Process (pdf file).
- Reports and presentations about
assessment (pdf and Powerpoint
files).
- Assessment blogs from the Division of Student
Success include tips on planning & implementing
outcomes assessment and links to other assessment resources.
Niagara
University (New York)
- FAQ about designing outcomes assessment processes.
- Schedule for assessing disciplinary majors.
- Examples of assessment plans, reporting forms, rubrics,
reports, and outcomes-committee responses to plans and reports (Word
[.doc
& .docx]
documents).
- Links to other resources.
Nicholls
State University: Office of Assessment and Institutional Research
(Louisiana)
- 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).
Norfolk State
University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment
(Virginia)
- Assessment Handbook (pdf file; takes
a long time to load; the title page looks "landscape" but the text
pages are in "portrait" format so you don't have to rotate the view).
- Assessment report template (Word
document) and tips/guidelines (pdf file) and a
template for reporting course outcomes and faculty
qualifications/strengths for each course (Word
document).
- Streaming-video presentation of NSU's NSSE
results.
- Presentations and handouts on aligning curriculum with
intended student outcomes. The curriculum
alignment process and reporting forms
at the
bottom of the home page are Word
documents. The presentations
are pdf and Powerpoint
files.
- Online survey about faculty perceptions of NSU's general
education curriculum.
- Summer readings are restricted to NSU
faculty and staff.
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.
- 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.
- Student
Affairs Planning, Assessment, Research and Retention
- Assessment process & (Word
document)
reporting instructions.
- Portfolio project instructions (Excel file).
- Resources include methods
cheat sheets (assessment tips: Word documents
& pdf file).
North
Dakota State University: Office of Accreditation and Assessment
- Assessment
- Guidelines and reporting formats (in both pdf & Word formats).
- Resources include:
- NDSU's assessment principles & procedures
statements.
- Rubric for evaluating units' assessment reports (Word document).
- Tips on assessment techniques (pdf files) and
presentation (Powerpoint
file).
- The handbook includes reporting instructions/formats
and tips on assessment measures and techniques (pdf files).
- Assessment committee minutes.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Self-study and NCA-HLC
reaccreditation reports (pdf files). Chapter 7
(Criterion Three) of the self-study report overviews NDSU's assessment
processes.
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.
Northeastern
Oklahoma A&M College
- 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).
Northeastern
State University: Office of Assessment & Institutional Research
(Oklahoma)
- The
annual assessment report includes summaries of institution-wide and
individual academic-program assessment methods and results (Word document).
- Template for reporting assessment activities and results (Word document).
- NSU's College Portrait
(pdf file).
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.
Northern
Illinois University: Office of Assessment Services
- Overview and university assessment plan (pdf
file).
- Guidelines, timelines, and reporting forms (pdf
files and Word documents).
- About assessment plans and annual reports from
academic and support programs/units. The annual update reports
are pdf
files.
- Allumni survey results (pdf and Powerpoint
files).
- Information about ongoing projects in assessing writing,
critical thinking, capstone courses, and student portfolios.
- Minutes & reports from NIU assessment committees (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.
- Toolkit online newsletter (pdf
files).
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).
- Resources
include:
- On-campus Powerpoint
presentations
- Links to other resources.
- CCSSE
results from the Office
of Institutional Research.
North Idaho
College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness
- 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.
Northwestern
Health Sciences University:
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (Minnesota)
- 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.
Northwestern
Oklahoma State University: Office of Assessment and Institutional
Effectiveness
- Information about and from NWOSU's Assessment Day (mostly pdf files).
- Assessment plans from academic programs and from some
administrative & service units (pdf files).
- The Institutional
Assessment Report includes summaries of institution-wide,
academic-program, and administrative/service-unit assessment procedures
and results (pdf
file).
- Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Oakland
Community College (Michigan)
- The Student
Learning Academy page includes a history of assessment
activities at OCC.
- Overview of the program
assessment process at OCC and template for
reporting program assessment plans.
- General
education outcomes and associated rubrics.
- Terminology
& definitions (assessment glossary).
- The assessment
tools page includes links to descriptions of &
online resources for standardized instruments, portfolios, and rubrics.
- Professional
development includes information about on-campus workshops
and (coming soon)
off-campus oppprtunities.
- Faculty
resources include
- Information about assessment mini-grants.
- Bibliography of assessment books/papers available at OCC.
- Links to other assessment resources.
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).
- 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) reports (pdf files).
- Assessment bibliography and links to other
assessment resources.
Occidental College: Institutional
Research and Assessment Group (California)
- Assessment (pdf files)
- Handout from on-campus assessment workshop.
- Templates for reporting assessment plans and results.
- Sample rubrics, and guidelines for developing rubrics.
- Assessment plans from some academic programs.
- Information about periodic academic program review and
about a project to develop assessment plans for academic support
services.
- Links to other assessment resources (some pdf files, some html pages and Word documents).
- Current
survey
results are restricted
to OC faculty & staff.
- Your First
College Year (YCFY) survey results (pdf files).
Ohio
Northern University: Office of Institutional Research
- Note:
Use the menus at the right side of ONU's pages. 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 programs' 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
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).
Oklahoma
Baptist University
- The Assessment
Program Report (pdf
files) overviews assessment processes and results at OBU. The
appendices include:
- Core curriculum (general education) learning outcomes.
- A table of assessment methods used by individual academic
programs and a examples of academic-program changes based on assessment
results.
- Results from standardized tests and surveys and from
locally-designed surveys.
- Note:
The academic-program links at the right side of the page are to
programs' home pages, not to individual assessment reports.
Oklahoma
City Community College: Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee
- 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
- Guidelines and examples for developing departmental
assessment plans and
reports.
- General education outcomes, rubrics, and reports (pdf files).
- Departments' assessment plans and annual reports (pdf
files).
- Annual assessment reports, including department and general
education reports (pdf
files).
- Information about mini-grants for assessment budgets and
special projects.
- Reports from student and alumni surveys (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.
- 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.
- Topics and facts of special
interest about assessment include links to online resources (this
page).
Oral
Roberts University: Office of Institutional Research
(Oklahoma)
- 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).
- Outcomes inventories include academic program assessment
plans and ORU university-wide learning outcomes (Word documents and pdf files).
- Assessment & student learning glossary (pdf file).
- Information about e-portfolios at ORU:
- Presentations and overviews (pdf files and Word documents).
- E-portfolio handbooks for students from the general
education program and some academic disciplines (pdf files and Word documents).
- NSSE
& CAAP (general
education assessment) 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
- Policies, guidelines, and tips for assessment planning (pdf
files and Word documents).
- Annual reports, including a survey of departments'
assessment activities (pdf files).
- OSU Perspective online assessment
newsletter (pdf files).
- Links to other resources.
Owens Community
College (Ohio)
- Overview, and ongoing student success projects.
- General education competencies and assessment methods (the
details for each competency are pdf files).
- History & general process of assessment in academic
units.
- Student learning assessment committee (pdf
files)
- OCC assessment action plan.
- Template and rubric for evaluating assessment plans
& reports.
- Report on OCC AQIP
project.
Parkland
College (Illinois)
- Template for annual assessment reports (Word
document).
- Academic program assessment reports (pdf
files, including archived older reports).
Paradise Valley
Community College (Arizona)
- Overview of PVCC's assessment initiative.
- 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, presentations
about assessment, assessment-team minutes, and summary reports to MCCCD
(mostly Word documents, some Excel,
and Powerpoint files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- PVCC's assessment activities are summarized in the chapter
on Student Learning and Effective Teaching in PVCC's
self-study for HLC (pdf file).
Park University:
University Assessment Committee (Missouri)
- 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.
- 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).
- Course-level learning outcomes, with assessment methods and
rubrics.
- Assessment committee agendas and minutes (pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Pasadena City College
(California)
- Guidelines
for developing and assessing student learning outcomes and for
reporting assessment plans and results. (Most are html
pages. The guidelines for writing SLOs, under Structure and process / Getting
started, are in an MS Publisher (*.pub) file.)
- Institutional (general education) learning outcomes.
- Program and course learning outcomes are available via the public access
section of PCC's WebCMS system. In each program or course page, scroll
down to find its outcomes.
- Presentations from on-campus workshops (Powerpoint files).
- Assessment steering committee agendas and minutes (Word documents).
- Most pages on this site include links to other assessment
resources.
Pennsylvania State University
- Assessment of academic
programs
- Guidelines & planning/reporting procedures (pdf files).
- Some degree programs' learning outcomes (pdf files).
- General
education assessment (pdf
files)
- General education goals & objectives.
- Tips, worksheets, and guidelines.
- Assessment of cocurricular
programs
- Cocurricular program outcomes.
- Tips and guidelines.
- Results from some Student
Affairs Research & Assessment PULSE surveys.
- Links to resources for course-level
assessment.
- Information about grants for
assessment and teaching-support projects (mostly html pages, some pdf files).
- Materials from on-campus conferences & workshops (pdf files and Powerpoint [.ppt & .pptx]
presentations).
- Information about and from the Coordinating Committee in
University Assessment (CCUA;
pdf
files).
- Penn State's College Portrait
(pdf file).
- Resources
include
- Guidelines & definitions (pdf files).
- Links to Penn State and other institutions' resources for
assessment.
- Links to online articles
and reports about assessment (html pages
& pdf
files).
- Student
Affairs Research & Assessment: Reports from
student surveys and assessment projects, including PULSE topical
surveys (pdf
files).
Phillips Community
College of the University of Arkansas
- Student learning process: PCCUA's
assessment plan and reports (Word documents).
- PCCUA's goals for assessment results and impacts (Word
document), and college-level changes that have been related to the
assessment process.
- Core competencies (general education) outcomes, assessment
approach, and rubrics (Word documents), and CAAP
results (Word documents and Excel
files).
- Program assessment: Plans, results, and
impacts for some academic programs (Word
documents). These are also summarized in the college-level assessment
reports.
- Results from surveys of students, alumni, and faculty (Word
documents, Excel files, and Powerpoint
presentations).
- Guidelines for classroom assessment techniques
(CATS). Still to come: guidelines and
resources for other assessment techniques.
- Information from and about the college assessment committee
(Word
documents).
- Assessment newsletters (pdf
files).
- Miscallaneous (institutional research) data related to
assessment and outcomes.
- Training and Other Sources
include information about and resources from on-campus workshops.
- Links to assessment resources.
Plymouth State
University (New Hampshire)
- Overview of assessment at PSU.
- Learning outcomes and assessment plans from some academic
and student affairs
units. They vary in format; some include results. Mostly html
pages, some pdf files.
- The report on PSU's first year experience includes a
chapter on assessment (pdf
file, see pp. 77ff).
- Links to assessment resources.
Portland State University
(Oregon)
- From PSU's institutional
portfolio.
- The student learning assessment process at PSU, and
assessment-related activities on campus.
- Learning goals for undergraduates, and the role played
by senior capstone courses.
- Relationship to the program review process.
- Center
for
Academic Excellence (Note: These pages
may load slowly.)
- History of assessment at PSU.
- Step-by-step: Guidelines for
developing & implementing an assessment plan.
- Practices
- Examples of assessment methods in use at PSU.
- Table of assessment methods used by individual academic
and administrative units (pdf file).
- The program review database
includes each academic departments' assessment information, and an
overview (pdf file) of the types of information in
the database.
- CAE's assessment-related services.
- Links to other assessment resources.
Pueblo
Community College (Colorado)
- Annual reports on assessment at PCC include:
- Overview and evaluation of the assessment process.
- General education objectives.
- Academic program objectives, assessment methods, and
results.
- Note: Reports from 2005 and earlier
are Word documents.
Quinsigamond
Community College: Institutional
Effectiveness Portfolio (Massachusetts)
- QCC policies for assessment and institutional effectiveness.
- Some individual program portfolios
include program outcomes, assessment methods, and results.
Red Rocks
Community College (Colorado)
- About assessment at RRCC.
- Assessment plan (html and rtf
files; note: the html version
was not available when last checked) and PowerPoint
presentation on assessment.
- College-wide assessments includes RRCC's
CCSSE
results (pdf file).
- Information about the assessment components of RRCC's Academic Quality Improvement
Project (AQIP) for HLC
(pdf files).
- Links to assessment resources.
Rhode Island College
- Overview of assessment at RIC.
- Assessment committee
- Form for reporting assessment plans & results (Word document).
- Committee members and agendas.
- Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA)
results (pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Roanoke
College (Virginia)
- Overview & policies for institutional effectiveness
and academic and administrative assessment.
- Institution and curriculum goals.
- Descriptions of and guidelines for academic and
administrative assessment plans.
- Self-study plan.
- Links to other assessment resources.
Rosemont
College (Pennsylvania)
- College outcomes assessment plan.
- Assessment plans for individual academic departments.
Rutgers
University
(New Jersey)
- Center
for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research
- Guidelines for developing departmental assessment plans.
- Online templates for annual assessment reports.
- Committees and university infrastructure for outcomes
assessment.
- Summaries of current assessment pilot projects.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Office
of Institutional Research and Academic Planning
- Information about surveys of students and faculty. (Some
of
these are pdf files.)
- The Undergraduate Experience
summarizes results from surveys of continuing and graduating students
and of students who withdrew from the university (pdf
files).
- The Physics and Astronomy Education Research group's Scientific
Abilities Project site includes assessment tasks, rubrics for
assessing scientific abilities, and presentations on assessment of
scientific abilities (pdf files).
Saginaw
Valley State University (Michigan)
- Principles of academic program assessment at SVSU.
- Administrative structure, roles, & responsibilities
for the assessment process (pdf file).
- Self-study and monitoring reports on assessment at SVSU (pdf
files).
- Reporting forms for academic and academic-support units (rtf
and Word documents).
- General
education assessment
- General education assessment plan.
- Guidelines for developing assessment plans and preparing
reports.
- SVSU results from standardized tests and surveys (pdf
files).
- Annual reports from the General Education Committee (pdf
files).
- Assessment bibliography
Samford
University: Office of Operations and Planning (Alabama)
- History of assessment at Samford (pdf files).
- Samford
model of assessment: Performance indicators and reporting
forms for academic and administrative units and individual employees (pdf files).
- Office of Assessment
- Overview of assessment process.
- Assessment
practice: Guidelines for planning & implementing
assessment.
- The new reporting forms
(Word 2007 [.docx]
documents) for assessment plans
and results were not available when last checked.
- Resources
include information about regional & national assessment
conferences and a link to this
assessment resources site.
- Office of Institutional
Effectiveness
- NSSE results and
results from other survey research
(pdf files).
- Links
to other assessment resources.
San Diego State
University: Student Learning Outcomes Committee
- Guidelines and tips for developing asessment plans (some html
pages, some pdf files).
- SDSU examples of mission statements, goals, and learning
objectives (pdf files).
- Downloadable forms for reporting and rating assessment
plans (pdf files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
San
Francisco State University: Academic Planning and Educational
Effectiveness
- University assessment overview and policies.
- Form for reporting departmental assessment activities (Word
document).
- General education assessment outcomes and assessment
approach.
- Results from surveys of students, including searcheable
"Student Voice"
database of results from all student surveys.
- Assessment committee (UAAAC) annual reports and survey of
faculty attitudes about assessment (mostly pdf
files).
- Policies and guidelines for academic program review.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- College
of Business Outcomes Assessment Committee
- Projects, progress, and plans.
- Links to other resources.
San Jose State
University (California)
- Overview of assessment at SJSU.
- Program assessment
- Undergraduate programs' mission statements and learning
objectives.
- Forms for reporting department and college assessment
activities (Word documents).
- College summary reports on academic program assessment (Word
documents).
- Guide to outcomes assessment (handbook, pdf
file).
- General education (GE) assessment
- Overview
- GE objectives.
- Forms for reporting GE course assessment activities (Word
documents and rtf files) and sample reports (pdf
files and Word documents).
- Reports on GE assessment (html
pages, pdf
files, Word documents, and Excel
files).
- Minutes of assessment
facilitators' meetings (Word documents).
- Recipients of provost's assessment awards.
- Information about Learning Productivity Program grants
(see pdf
files internal grants
information and LPP
grant packet).
St. Ambrose University
(Iowa)
- University assessment plan and background.
- Assessment plans for academic programs and administrative
and co-curricular units. Some are pdf files.
- Form for annual assessment reports. (The link says "pdf
version" but the form is a plain web page.)
- Guidelines for developing assessment plans, and rubrics to
evaluate assessment plans.
- Academic
Support Committee: Minutes and policies/procedures for
reviewing administrative & co-curricular units' plans (pdf
files).
- Reports from surveys of students and alumni, including NSSE results. Some are pdf
files. The Reports page also includes
assessment committee updates on activities &
accomplishments.
- Links to other assessment resources.
St. Cloud
State University: Assessment Office (Minnesota)
- Overview of assessment at SCSU.
- Institutional assessment reports (pdf files &
Word
documents).
- Individual academic programs' assessment plans and (Word document)
general education assessment plan.
- Instructions and form for reporting assessment plans and
results (Word
documents).
- Information about HLC's
Assessment Academy
(pdf files).
- Resources
include:
- Assessment handbook and information about on-campus peer
consultation and on-campus workshops.
- Some SJSU colleges' assessment sites.
- Information about assessment mini-grants (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
- Bibliography and books, articles, etc. available in the
Assessment Office library.
- Links to other assessment resources, including
discipline-specific links.
St.
Louis
Community College (Missouri)
- SLCC assessment plan and institutional support.
- Assessment report (pdf
file).
- Online newsletters (pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Saint
Louis University
(Missouri)
- Overview of assessment at SLU.
- The Five Dimensions of the SLU Experience (university-wide
student learning outcomes).
- Inventory of undergraduate capstone experiences at SLU,
with learning outcomes for each one (pdf file).
- Information about assessment-related professional
development opportunities at SLU.
Saint Michael's
College (Vermont)
- Assessment of students in residence:
- Results from an academic advising
survey.
- NSSE results (Excel file).
- Still to
come: Liberal studies (general education) outcomes
& assessment.
- Program
assessment reports from individual undergraduate and
graduate programs (Word
documents).
- Assessment of alumni includes results
from surveys of graduating seniors and alumni (pdf
files).
- CIRP profiles of entering students and
information about other college-wide surveys.
- Retention analyses include an exit
survey (pdf
file) and information about institutional-research comparisons with
other institutions.
- Links
to other assessment resources.
Seton Hall University: Stillman School of Business (New Jersey)
- Overview of the undergraduate assessment process and instructions/details of sophomore & senior assessments.
- FAQ.
- School-wide learning outcomes (competencies).
- Annual assessment reports (pdf files).
Shawnee State
University (Ohio)
- General education
- Learning goals and relevant assessment instruments (pdf
file).
- Rubrics for and reports on writing, oral communication,
critical thinking, and scientific reasoning (some html
pages, some pdf files).
- Results from standardized general-education tests.
- Learning goals and rubrics being developed for a student
portfolio process (pdf file).
- Information about and from SSU's graduating senior survey.
- Learning outcomes and assessment methods from individual
academic programs.
Shepherd
University: Center for Teaching and Learning (West Virginia)
- Overview of assessment at SU.
- Assessment calendar.
- Sample assessment plans & reports (Word
documents) and a Powerpoint
presentation about reporting.
- Assessment reporting forms & process reports (Word documents
& Excel
files).
- About assessment mini-grants.
- Information about standardized instruments used at SU.
Sinclair
Community College (Ohio)
- History, policies, principles, & strategic plan for
assessment at SCC.
- Overview of methods for program and campus-wide (institutional)
assessment, sources of assessment data, & guidelines for
program outcomes
reports.
- Summaries of results from surveys of students, alumni, and
employers.
Skidmore
College (NY)
- Assessment
plan and timetable, and plan for college-wide
(general education)
learning goals.
- FAQ.
- Assessment
handbook
- Guidelines and suggestions for developing assessment
plans.
- Information about assessment methods. Some sections
include examples.
- Direct
assessments: Assessment methods used by individual
academic departments (pdf
files).
- General
resources and
Other college reports have links to other assessment
resources including other institutions' assessment plans organized
by discipline or topic.
Slippery Rock
University (Pennsylvania)
- Select Meeting
Minutes for the history & principles of assessment
at SRU
and minutes
of the assessment taskforce (Word
documents & rtf
files).
- Assessment
calendar. From here you can download a Powerpoint
presentation on SRU's assessment cycle.
- Assessment reports from individual academic programs (Word documents
& rtf
files).
- Powerpoint
presentation on assessment's role in accreditation.
- Information about assessment
month at SRU, professional
development day, and the annual assessment poster presentation competition
(Word
documents, Powerpoint
presentations, and pdf
files).
- The assessment
roundup includes best-practices presentations by SRU
faculty (Word
documents) and Powerpoint
presentations of pictures from the professional
development day and the assessment roundup.
Sonoma State
University (California)
- Overview of assessment development at SSU.
- Resources:
Guidelines for developing program-level
assessment (Powerpoint presentations & Word
documents).
- Assessment
reports from individual academic
departments. Interim
program review reports include outcomes,
assessment plans, results, and impacts. (Word
documents)
- Dialogues:
Brief essays from individual faculty
about educational effectiveness (Word documents).
- Academic program
review policy, including assessment
reporting.
- Links to other assessment/effectiveness
resources.
Southeastern
Louisiana University: Office of Institutional Research and
Assessment
- Institutional effectiveness
- Policies & guidelines.
- Institutional effectiveness reports for individual
academic programs (pdf files).
- Information about Student Evaluation of Teaching (SOT)
process.
- Surveys: Results from
surveys of students, alumni, faculty & staff (pdf
files). Includes NSSE results.
Southeastern
Oklahoma State University
- General education learning outcomes.
- History of general education assessment at SOSU.
- General education assessment plan and report (pdf files).
Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville: Office of
Assessment
- Description of the required Senior Assignment,
examples (pdf files) from some academic departments,
and information about mini-grants to support Senior Assignment
projects.
- Other assessments: Results from surveys
of graduating students and alumni (html
pages, pdf & Excel files).
- Assessment
Scholars
program for faculty member projects.
- Information about periodic program review
includes reporting templates for assessment plans and annual reports (Word documents).
- SIUE's Voluntary
System of Accountability College
Portrait (pdf
file).
- Assessment bibliography (Word document).
- Resources
include:
- Assessment
Spotlight online newsletter (pdf files).
- SIUE catalog statement on undergraduate assessment (pdf file).
- Links to other assessment resources.
South
Mountain Community College (Arizona)
- Overview of SMCC's assessment plan and information about
assessment week.
- Data forms:
Word documents with
instructions and reporting forms:
- Summative evaluation: assessment of course outcomes.
- Formative evaluation: individual students' evaluations
of course process.
- Evaluation
reports: Course-by-course results of summative
and formative evaluations (Word documents).
- Links to other assessment resources.
South
Texas College
- Student
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Department
- Learning outcomes and assessment methods for individual
academic programs; some include assessment results (pdf files).
- Flowcharts of assessment process.
- Assessment glossary (pdf
file).
- Still to
come: Tips about assessment methods.
- Access to WEAVEonline
is restricted
to STC faculty & staff.
- Office
of Institutional Effectiveness & Assessment
- IE team, tools, and history
- IE handbook and calendar (pdf files, current
and previous versions).
- Individual administrative & academic units' IE
plans & reports (pdf
files).
- Access to WEAVEonline and STC's IE data entry
system (restricted
to STC faculty & staff).
- WEAVE & IE help includes training presentations
(optimized for Internet
Explorer, do not work in other browsers), instructions
& examples for IE reports, and WEAVE instructions (pdf
& Excel
files).
- Still to
come: Information about the IE team's evaluation of
IE-plan impacts.
Southwest Baptist
University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Missouri)
- Assessment handbook (Word document)
with
- Overview of assessment approaches for general education
and academic disciplines.
- Timelines.
- Guidelines for developing and implementing an assessment
plan.
- Formats for annual reports and five-year review.
- Academic programs' learning outcomes and assessment plans (Word
documents).
- Forms for submitting outcomes, assessment plans, and annual
reports (Word documents).
- General education outcomes, assessments (see the reporting matrix),
and curriculum.
- Student assessment requirements: Surveys and instruments
used for university-wide assessment.
- Online newsletter (pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
Southwestern
University: Office of Strategic Planning & Assessment
(Texas)
- Information from & about the assessment committee.
- Assessment handbook (pdf
file) and reporting form (Word
document) for academic units. (Note:
When last checked, these were
on the page for administrative and educational support units and the
handbook & form for AES units were not available. The
SU website
is being redesigned so this may change soon.)
- Inquiry
Quarterly (I.Q.)
online newsletter (pdf
files).
Spokane
Community College (Washington)
- College-wide abilities (general education goals &
outcomes) and
associated rubrics (pdf files).
- SCC Outcomes FAQ. (Note:
Outcomes documents from individual academic programs are restricted to
SCC faculty & staff.)
- Information about assessment mini-grants. (The application
cover sheet is a Word
[.docx]
document.)
- Assessment tools created by SCC faculty (Word documents),
and links to other
assessment resources.
State
University of New York: Assessment Initiative
- Overview of system-wide general education assessment
initiative and documents (pdf files) about the
initiative.
- Forms for SUNY campus-level assessment reports (pdf
and Word formats) .
- Link to SUNY General Education Assessment Review (GEAR)
group website with
- FAQ about the system-level process,
- how campus reports are reviewed,
- "best practice" examples, and
- links to presentations and documents about the process (Word documents, pdf files,
& Powerpoint
presentations).
State
University of New York at Cortland: Office of Institutional
Research & Assessment
- Assessments
- Geneeral education assessment plan & reports with
outcomes, assessment methods, and rubrics (Word documents, pdf files).
- Still to
come: Assessment plans & reports for academic
& service units, & reports on other assessment projects.
- The factbook
includes assessment plans from service (administrative and support)
units (pdf
files).
- The sections on Standards 7, 12, & 14 in
SUNY-Cortland's 2002 Middle States
self-study
include information about assessment activities (pdf file).
State
University of
New York at Geneseo
- About assessment, and about assessment at Geneseo.
- Glossary and FAQ.
- Individual academic programs' learning outcomes.
- General education assessment:
- A description of SUNY-wide procedures for
assessing general
education.
- Geneseo's general education assessment plan (pdf file).
- General education outcomes and (pdf files) rubrics
& assessment reports.
- This year in
program & general education assessment: Timetables &
reporting instructions.
- Links to other assessment resources.
State University
of New
York at Potsdam: Office of Institutional Effectiveness
- Student learning outcomes assessment
- Reporting instructions (pdf file) &
template (Word
document) for academic units' assessment plans, and assessment
committee rubric for evaluating plans (pdf file).
- General education assessment results (pdf files).
- Assessment committee agendas & minutes (pdf files).
- Glossary of assessment terms (pdf
file).
- Links to Middle States
& other assessment resources (pdf files).
- About national and SUNY-system surveys used at Potsdam. (Note: Survey data
were not available when last checked.)
- Campus statistics are restricted
to SUNY-Potsdam faculty
& staff.
- Links to institutional-research resources.
Suffolk
County Community College: Office of
Institutional Research and Assessment (New York)
- Survey and research reports include
results from surveys of graduates and of non-returning students (some
are pdf files), and very large pdf
reports on SCCC's results from SUNY's periodic student opinion surveys.
- Links to OIRA presentations on assessment (Powerpoint
files) and to other assessment resources.
Swarthmore
College: Office of Institutional Research (Pennsylvania)
- Guidelines for developing & implementing an
assessment plan.
- Assessment
101 brief handbook (pdf
file of a Powerpoint
presentation).
- Academic units' assessment
responsibilities.
- Links to assessment resources.
Syracuse
University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment
(New
York)
- University assessment plan (pdf file).
- Assessment of programs or projects: Guidelines for planning
and implementing assessment processes.
- Assessment of student learning
- History of assessment at SU.
- Guidelines and templates for assessment plans and reports
(pdf files).
- Pdf documents with links to
information about assessment from discipline-specific assessment bodies
and professional associations.
Tennessee Tech
University
- Learning outcome goals, assessment methods, and results
from individual academic programs.
- Assessment data include results from student surveys and
general education assessments, including NSSE
results (mostly pdf
files; Praxis
results are an Excel
file).
- Institutional effectiveness support system (the system
itself is restricted
to TTU faculty & staff but the instructions and overview are
not).
Terra
Community College (Ohio)
- General education outcomes and overview of assessment
process.
- Academic programs' learning outcomes and outcomes*courses
matrices (mostly pdf & rtf
files; some Word documents).
- The annual assessment reports include general education and
program-assessment results (pdf & rtf
files).
- Information for students about TCC's e-portfolio project.
Texas
A&M University
- Office
of Institutional Assessment
- University guidelines: Policy documents and general
education outcomes (pdf
files).
- Assessment timeline (pdf
file).
- Guidelines for writing outcomes, using rubrics, etc. (html pages, pdf files).
- Rubric for evaluating assessment plans (pdf file).
- WEAVEonline
instructions (pdf
file) and assessment plan worksheets (Word documents).
Access to the WEAVE database is restricted to TAMU
faculty & staff.
- Information about TAMU's QEP (Quality Enhancement Plan, Inquiry/research-based education
of undergraduates (html
pages & pdf
files).
- Information from and about the assessment committee
(minutes
are pdf files).
- Handouts from on-campus assessment seminars, workshops (pdf
files) & information about & from TAMU's annual
assessment conference (html
pages & pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Measurement
and Research Services
- Reports from student surveys,
including NSSE results (pdf
files).
- Note: the Assessment Manual
(select Assessment)is no longer available.
- Student
Life Studies
- Presentation on TAMU's student affairs assessment and
results (pdf
file).
- Support for assessment of Student
Affairs programs, including an FAQ, survey and reporting forms, and
information about SLS assessment mini-grants.
- Comprehensive program review reports
from Student Affairs departments.
- Aggie R-r-ring phone and web surveys
of student opinion and experience.
- Survey results and descriptions of
ongoing assessment projects.
- Descriptions, outcomes, and assessment rubrics for a
project on student leadership
- Links to other assessment resources.
Texas A&M
International University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and
Planning
- Resources include TAMIU's institutional
effectiveness plan, an assessment practitioner's manual, and checklist
for evaluating assessment plans & reports (pdf
files). The manual includes a bibliography and links to other online
assessment resources.
- Assessment reports from individual academic,
administrative, and support units, with outcomes, assessment methods,
summaries of results, and (where applicable) program changes made on
the basis of assessment results (html pages, pdf
files, Word documents).
- Results from surveys of students (including NSSE results) and from
administrative-unit clients.
Texas
Christian University: Office for Assessment and Quality
Enhancement
- Assessment
- Assessment manual (pdf file) and
rubric for evaluating assessment plans (Word
document).
- Assessment calendar.
- TCU user manual for WEAVEonline
(WEAVE access is restricted to TCU faculty & staff).
- School/college mission statements and individual academic
departments' and support units' assessment plans (pdf
files).
- Books in TCU's assessment library (these are citations,
not
links).
- Presentations about assessment (Powerpoint
presentations) and links other
presentations and resources (mostly html pages,
some pdf files).
- Guidelines and calendar for academic program
review (html pages and Word
documents).
Texas Tech
University: Planning and Assessment Reports
- Strategic plans and assessment reports by college and for
individual academic and support units (pdf files).
- Instructions and guidelines for assessment reports (pdf
files, see Stratplan
Help).
- Information from assessment workshops (Powerpoint
files -- see Related Links / Outcomes Assessment Resources).
- Links to other assessment resources and pdf
files & Word documents that list assessment
resources.
Texas Woman's University:
Institutional Effectiveness
- Overview of IE reporting process & rubrics for
evaluating assessment plans and reports (pdf
files).
- Academic IE Reporting System (AIES):
- Reporting instructions & evaluation rubrics (pdf
files).
- Examples of IE plans (Word
documents).
- Previous years' IE guidelines & examples (Word
and Excel files).
- Online data-entry forms (restricted to
TWU faculty & staff).
- Links to other IE resources.
The
American University in Cairo: Office of Institutional Planning,
Assessment, Research and Testing
- Overview of assessment at AUC.
- AUC assessment plan (pdf
file).
- University (general education) learning outcomes.
- Assessment guides (handbooks) for academic programs and
administrative and support units (pdf
files).
- Timelines and templates for assessment plans and reports
(Word
documents
and Excel
files).
- Note:
Academic & administrative/support units' assessment plans and reports
were not available when last checked.
- Information about and results from university-wide surveys (restricted to AUC
faculty & staff).
- Glossary.
- List of national/international assessment conferences and
AUC on-campus workshops.
- Links to other assessment resources.
The College of New
Jersey: Office of Institutional Research & Assessment
- FAQs.
- Program
assessment documents (pdf
files) include academic programs':
- Student outcomes & course matrices (learning goal matrices).
- Assessment
plans.
- Annual "one assessment question" activities &
results.
- Online forms for "one
question" plans & reports.
- Assessment tools
include:
- Guidelines for & information about assessment
methods, and reports from TCNJ student surveys (some html pages, some pdf files, some Word
documents). The assessment home page also has some guidelines
and survey results (pdf
files).
- The Form
Genie web survey tool is restricted to TCNJ
faculty & staff.
- Archives
of TCNJ assessment-related documents (html pages, pdf & Excel files, Powerpoint
presentations).
- Information about periodic program review.
- Links
to other assessment resources.
Tidewater
Community College: Office of Student Outcomes Assessment
(Virginia)
- SOARR
(Strategic Outcomes Assessment Review and Report):
History and process of outcomes assessment at TCC, with
links to pdf files & Word documents of
guidelines, reporting
templates, external agencies' requirements, etc.
- Note:
Assessment data
were not available when last checked.
- Assessment
tookit
- Annotated links to other assessment resources.
- Tips for writing outcomes and selecting outcomes
measures, with examples.
- Annotated links to assessment-related articles and to
assessment reports from other Virginia community colleges (pdf
files).
- Online assessment newsletter (pdf
files).
Towson
University: Office of Assessment
(Maryland)
- The TU
Student Experience: Overview of assessment activities at
TU.
- Resources
include:
- Templates, guidelines, and examples for academic program
assessment (Word
documents and pdf
& Excel
files).
- Examples of assessment tools such as rubrics and
portfolios (pdf
files).
- Information about periodic program review (Word documents).
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Note:
The link to information about general
education assessment did not work when last checked.
- Assessment excellence and best practice award-winners.
- Information about student
affairs assessment at TU includes reporting templates (Word documents) and
survey reports (html
pages & pdf
files).
- News
& events includes a link to TU's College
Portrait (pdf
file).
Troy
University: Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness
(Alabama)
- The Institutional Planning & Effectiveness Handbook
describes
requirements for academic programs' assessment plans and reports (pdf
file).
- Links to online surveys of students, alumni, and employers
and to pdf reports of survey results.
- Information about standardized assessment exams used at
Troy U.
- Note:
Colleges' annual report data in the archives (Word documents)
could not be read when last checked.
Truckee Meadows
Community College (Nevada)
- FAQs for course- and program-level outcomes assessment.
- Assessment reports
- Reporting calendars (pdf
files) and template (Word
document).
- Discipline and program assessment reports (pdf
files).
- Institution-wide assessment summaries (pdf files).
- General education assessment
- General education goals & outcomes.
- Assessment handbook (pdf
file).
- Report on general education assessment (pdf file).
- Classroom assessment techniques.
- On-campus assessment workshops & training.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- The Institutional
Research Survey Research page includes CCSSE results and
examples of and
results from surveys of graduating students (pdf
files).
Truman College
(Illinois)
- Overview of assessment at Truman College.
- Assessment plan (pdf file).
- General education competencies and outcomes.
- NCA-HLC's document on
levels of assessment implementation (pdf file).
- The course portfolios are restricted to
TC faculty & staff.
Truman State University
(Missouri)
- History
of assessment at TSU and information about TSU's master plan
(strategic plan). Note:
The master plan
& assessment link is restricted to TSU
faculty & staff.
- Components
of the assessment program: Information about
methods in use at TSU.
- FAQ.
- Annual assessment
almanac (pdf files)
with
- Assessment plan.
- Descriptions of assessment methods.
- Results from surveys of students, alumni, employers,
faculty, including NSSE
results.
- Results of portfolio and capstone course assessments.
- Assessment in individual disciplines and
academic programs (restricted
to TSU faculty & staff).
- TSU's portfolio
project: information, guidelines for
students and faculty, FAQ, and links to almanac chapters (pdf
files) with assessment results.
- Student
interview project: Information from and about
systematic interviews with samples of students.
- Projects from annual assessment
colloquia. Some entries
link to more information about a project.
- Information about assessment mini-grants and student
internships.
- Information from on-campus workshops (restricted
to TSU faculty & staff).
Tulsa
Community College: Office of Planning and Research (Oklahoma)
- FAQ and glossary.
- The assessment
wizard is restricted
to TCC faculty & staff.
- General education assessment goals (learning outcomes).
- Learning outcomes for individual academic programs (pdf file).
- Assessment reports (these pdf
files download & open in a separate pdf-reader window)
- General education learning outcomes.
- Individual academic programs' assessment reports and
program reviews.
- The
annual assessment reports to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
Education (OSRHE) summarize the year's assessment activities.
- Links to other resources.
United States Military Academy (West Point): Office of Policy, Planning, and Assessment
United
States Naval Academy (Annapolis): Assessment
- USNA assessment model.
- Institution-wide general education goals, learning
outcomes, and assessment methods.
- Departmental learning outcomes.
- Material from on-campus assessment colloquium (html
pages and Powerpoint presentations).
- Teaching
and Learning Center services and links to other resources.
Universidad
de Puerto Rico en Aguadilla
- Note: While English titles and headings
are provided as a guide, the site's text and most resources are in
Spanish.
- Brief history of assessment at the university.
- University-level assessment plans and examples of
program-level plans (pdf files).
- Templates and examples for program and classroom
assessment plans and projects (Word documents and pdf
files).
- Rubrics for general education outcomes (Word
documents).
- Resources include:
- General education objectives (pdf
file).
- Manuals of assessment methods (pdf
files).
- Presentations about assessment and assessment projects (pdf
files).
- Links to assessment resources.
University at
Albany, State University of New York
- University assessment plan (pdf file)
and highlights (Word document).
- General education assessment plan (Word
document) and outcomes.
- Procedures and guidelines for academic program review (Word
documents).
- Institutional effectiveness
- UAlbany outcomes assessment model: Institutional research
variables and survey questions used to assess educational outcomes. The
short narrative is a Word document.
- Reports from student surveys and other assessment studies
(pdf files).
- Still to come: Assessment plans and
reports from individual academic and administrative units.
- Information about UAlbany's assessment committees. The
Provost's Assessment Advisory Committee minutes are Word
documents and Powerpoint files.
- Links to other assessment resources, including assessment
in
individual academic disciplines and in administrative and student
support units.
University of
Akron - Wayne College (Ohio)
- HLC 2008 presentation
about assessment at Wayne College (Powerpoint
file).
- Directions for submitting assessment reports online (Powerpoint file).
- Assessment report examples (pdf files).
- Bibliographies (Word
document, pdf
file).
- The online
course assessment reports are restricted to Wayne faculty
& staff.
University of
Alaska-Anchorage
- Brief overview of outcomes assessment, program review, and
annual-report processes.
- Templates, calendar, and examples for assessment plans
&
reports (Word and Excel file).
- Assessment plans and reports for individual academic
programs (Word and Excel files).
- Literature, documents & links
include
assessment-related reports to NASC
and links to online articles (pdf files).
- Academic program review guidelines
& schedule (Word &
Excel files).
University of
Alaska-Fairbanks
- Educational effectiveness policy and reporting
requirements.
- Assessment plan profiles from individual academic programs (HTML,
pdf, and Word versions).
- Guide for creating an assessment plan, with:
- An example.
- Links to online assessment resources and a bibliography
of hardcopy assessment resources.
University
of Alaska Southeast
- Under Assessment in the left-hand menu:
- University assessment policy.
- FAQ about assessment at UAS.
- University competencies (general education outcomes).
- Checklist for evaluating departments' assessment plans (pdf
files) and a reporting timeline (Word document).
- Program assessment reports from academic and
administrative/support departments (pdf files).
University
of Arizona
- UA (draft) assessment plan (pdf
file).
- About assessment
- Administrative responsibilities & coordination (html page, pdf file).
- Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf files).
- Assessment coordinating council progress report (pdf file).
- Academic assessment
- Outcomes statements and assessment activities
for general education.
- Outcomes statements from degree programs
and support units. Some have also
posted assessment methods and results.
- Overview of student
support services (student affairs) assessment activities.
- On-campus workshop and showcase (pdf files).
- Tools and resources
- Results from surveys of students, including NSSE results (pdf files).
- Program review manual (pdf file).
- UA's Teacher-Course Evaluation process (html
pages, pdf
files; results are restricted
to UA students, faculty, & staff).
- Links to other resources.
University
of Arkansas at Fort Smith
- Information from and about the assessment
committee.
- Overview of reporting process for assessment plans
& reports.
- General education learning goals & objectives, and (pdf file)
assessment rubrics.
- Online newsletter and presentations about assessment (pdf
files).
- Links to other resources.
University
of
Arkansas at Little Rock: Assessment Central
- Assessment handbooks
for core courses & general
education and for degree programs.
- Reporting forms
and instructions for academic programs (Word
documents).
- Academic assessment: Assessment reports
from core courses and academic majors were not available when last
checked.
- General education core
competencies (outcomes) and
information about UALR's rising junior exam.
- Division of educational
& student services
- About assessment in the division.
- Assessment reports from UALR's first-year
experience courses & AA in general studies program (pdf files).
- Assessment
expo
award winners.
University
of Baltimore
(Maryland)
- Academic
Outcomes Assessment
- Overview of assessment at UB.
- University assessment plan & procedures.
- Progress report on general education assessment (Word
document).
- MSA-CHE and Maryland Higher Education Commission
guidelines for learning outcomes assessment.
- Information about assessment mini-grants.
- Assessment committee agendas & minutes (Word documents) and
campus events.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Yale
Gordon College of Liberal Arts
- Reporting forms for assessment plans & activities
(Word documents, Excel files).
- Assessment documents for individual programs within each
academic division. Content & format varies; may include
assessment
plan, methods, tools, results, &/or program review
reports
(some Word documents, some pdf
files; some are restricted to UB faculty & staff).
University
of California Berkeley
- Informal inventory of assessment practices in undergraduate
programs, including institution-, department-, and course-level
examples.
University of Central Arkansas: Office of Planning and Assessment
- Assessment process guide: Reporting
schedules & guidelines, and information about academic program
review.
- Assessment plan elements: Guidelines
for developing an assessment plan, with examples.
- Assessment plan library: Assessment
plans from some academic programs (pdf files).
Others will be posted later.
- Annual assessment reporting forms are on the forms
download page (Word
documents).
- Assessment reports (pdf
files):
- Standardized tests of general education, including CAAP
results.
- Teacher education assessment results.
- Assessment archive:
- University assessment plan and initiatives.
- Assessment plans from academic departments. Some are the
same as those in the library, some are
older versions.
University
of Central Florida: Operational Excellence and Assessment Support
- Assessment
- University assessment process & organizational
chart (pdf
files).
- Assessment handbooks for academic and administrative
units (pdf
files).
- Assessment plans & results from individual
academic & administrative units. (Note: Scroll over
the lists to see links.)
- Information about the university assessment committee
and (pdf
file) the divisional assessment review committee.
- Annual institutional effectiveness reports (pdf files).
- Some of these items are also available from the Assessment
Support page, as well as:
- Individual programs' academic learning compacts (pdf
files).
- UCF assessment success stories.
- Information and support for program reviews.
- On- and off-campus presentations on assessment, process
analysis, benchmarking, etc. (pdf files).
- Links to other resources.
- Survey & Statistical Support has
- examples of and information about available surveys and
- reports from surveys of students, alumni, employers, etc.
(pdf files and searchable database of
graduating-students results).
University of Central
Oklahoma: Office of Assessment
- Overivew of assessment process at UCO.
- Methods
has both glossary-like definitions of common assessment methods and
notes on how some of those methods are used at UCO.
- Templates for assessment reports (Excel files) and
instructions for using the templates (pdf file).
- UCO faculty presentations about assessment (Word
and Powerpoint
files).
- Reports on surveys of entering and graduating students and
of faculty (pdf
files).
University
of
Cincinnati: Office of Research and Assessment (Ohio)
University of
Colorado at Boulder: Office of Planning, Budget, and Analysis
- History and description of assessment process.
- Brief guide to assessment, checklist of suggested
steps, and overviews of methods used at UCB.
- Information about & from UCB Assessment Oversight
Committee (notes are html
pages, handouts are pdf
files).
- Assessment and academic program review (Word document
& html
pages).
- University-wide status reports, and relevant accreditation
and
legislative reports.
- Results from surveys
of students and alumni, including NSSE.
- Links to other assessment resources.
University
of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- About assessment at UCCS (the brochure is a pdf file).
- Annual reporting process, calendar, and reporting forms (pdf
files); guidelines for reporting progress and results; and information
about assessment methods.
- Glossary of assessment terms.
- Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf
file).
- General education outcomes, assessment plan, and reports (pdf
files).
- Survey instruments and results (pdf
files) from surveys of new freshmen, graduating seniors, and alumni.
- WEAVEonline guide (pdf file) and
access (access restricted
to UCCS faculty & staff).
- Links to assessment resources and descriptions of
assessment methods.
University of
Connecticut
- Introduction to assessment.
- Assessment primer (handbook). 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 and general education: Follow the link to the
General
Education Oversight Committee site. The Committee's assessment page has
draft outcomes for some general education areas.
- Links to assessment resources.
University of
Dayton
(Ohio)
- University assessment plan (pdf file).
- Forms for assessment reports and funding requests (Word
documents).
- Hints & tips for developing and conducting
outcomes assessment.
- Student success
- University (general education) learning outcomes.
- Reports on general-education assessment (most are pdf
files).
- Academic units' assessment plans (pdf files).
- UD data includes results from
university-level surveys, including NSSE.
- Links to other assessment resources.
University of Delaware: Office of Educational Assessment
- About UD's assessment
initiative.
- Assessment principles.
- Strategic initiatives (Word document).
- General education outcomes.
- Links to other UD units.
- Assessment news includes examples of assessment projects & presentations from UD faculty (reports are pdf files).
- FAQ.
- Tools & resources
- Assessment manual, with links to UD examples and
rubrics and to assessment resources elsewhere.
- UD examples of curriculum maps (Word documents, pdf and Excel files).
- Materials from on- and off-campus workshops (Powerpoint files).
- Library resources and links to assessment resources
elsewhere.
- Assessment reporting
- Blank & completed examples for UD's
online system for submitting assessment plans & reports (the
online system itself is restricted
to UD faculty & staff).
- Tutorial on using the online system (Word document).
- The sample assessment
reports were not available when last checked.
University
of Denver: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment
- Program assessment materials include:
- Reporting guidelines (pdf file).
- A reporting template (wordprocessors such as MS
Word will open this dot file).
- A rubric for evaluating assessment reports (pdf
file).
- HLC information
about assessment (pdf file).
- General education outcomes (pdf file).
- NSSE results (html pages
& pdf
file).
- Materials from a workshop about assessing graduate
& professional programs. (Note:
the Powerpoint
presentation takes a long time to begin.).
- DU Portfolio Community (student portfolio project), via Web
Resources: Portfolios.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- DU Portfolio
Community. Guest registration allows
browsing.
University
of Georgia
- Student
learning outcomes assessment
- Assessment of undergraduate major programs
- Assessment criteria and policies (pdf files).
- Guide for developing assessment plans, including
tips,
examples, and common misconceptions.
- Assessment plans from individual departments (pdf
files).
- Reporting procedures and templates.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- The program review & assessment committee
documents are restricted
for UGa faculty & staff.
- Still to
come: assessment of general education and graduate
programs.
- Program
review procedures and guides for academic,
administrative, and support units (pdf
files).
- NSSE results (pdf file).
- Student
Affairs assessments
- Reports on Office of Student Affairs Assessment research
projects (pdf files)
- Student Pulse online newsletter (pdf
files).
- Glossary of assessment terms.
- Examples of forms used in web- and paper-based surveys (pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
University
of Idaho: Institutional Research and Assessment
- Annual assessment cycle.
- Assessment
materials (pdf
files, scroll down on the home page):
- UI assessment philosophy, plan, and timeline.
- FAQ.
- Possible assessment methods, and table of university-wide
measures used (surveys & institutional-research data).
- Instructions for posting unit-level assessment plans in
UI's online assessment system. (The assessment system is restricted to IU
faculty and staff.)
- University (general education) and academic programs'
learning outcomes.
- Tools and examples from IU, including a rubric for
evaluating units' assessment plans and reports (pdf files).
- Reports from surveys of students, alumni, faculty, and
staff, including NSSE results (pdf files).
- Annual reports on university-level assessment activities (pdf files).
- Assessment committee meeting notes (pdf files).
- Information about on-campus workshops.
- Assessment information from peer institutions and links to
other assessment resources.
University of Illinois
at Springfield: Assessment Task Force
- Annual reports, documents, & newsletters
- UIS principles of assessment (pdf file).
- Annual report on assessment activities.
- Assessment task force minutes (pdf files).
- Online newsletter (pdf
files).
- Assessment guidelines and (still to come)
examples.
- Information from and about on-campus assessment workshops (pdf files).
- Still to come:
Links to other assessment resources.
University
of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Center for Teaching Excellence
- Overview of assessment at UIUC, with examples of assessment
methods & impacts.
- Assessment plans from individual academic units (pdf files).
- Results from survey of graduating seniors (mostly pdf files).
- Information about & from on-campus workshops (html pages, pdf & Powerpoint files).
- Resources
include an annotated list of books/articles available for faculty use
and an outline (pdf
file) for unit assessment plans.
University
of
Houston-Clear Lake: Office of Institutional Effectiveness
- Assessment - Academic Programs
- Overview of process.
- Online assessment-management system (restricted
to UHCL faculty & staff).
- Assessment calendar.
- Examples of individual departments' & programs'
assessment plans (pdf and rtf
files).
- General education assessment
- University learning outcomes and results (pdf
file) of assessment pilot.
- MAPP results (pdf files).
- Assessment - Support Units
- Online assessment-management system (restricted
to UHCL faculty & staff).
- Examples of individual units' assessment plans (rtf
files).
- Links to other resources and presentations (html
pages, pdf files, Word
documents, Powerpoint presentations).
University
of Kentucky: Office of Assessment
- UK assessment best practice examples and related
presentations (Word
documents, pdf
& Powerpoint files).
- Information about program review and annual progress
reporting (mostly pdf
files; the SPRS annual reporting system itself is restricted
to UK faculty & staff).
- Information about and from the institutional assessment
committee (pdf files, Word
documents).
- Links to other assessment resources (most are pdf
files).
University
of La Verne: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment
(California)
- Academic
assessment (pdf
files)
- ULV assessment plans. Information from academic program reviews
includes individual academic programs'' assessment plans.
- Reports on assessment of general education
competencies and elements, including some NSSE
and CAAP results.
- Examples of assessment
instruments and rubrics used at ULV (pdf files).
- Reports on assessment of campus learning environment,
including NSSE results (pdf
files).
- Assessment
center (Student Affairs assessment)
- Formats for assessment plans and annual reports.
- Assessment plans from individual Student Affairs units.
- Links to assessment resources.
- Still to come:
Assessment of administrative units
- Information about nationally standardized surveys used at ULV.
- Reports/publications:
Other publications
includes a pilot report on assessment of capstone courses (pdf file).
University of
Louisiana at Monroe: Office of Assessment and Evaluation
- Assessment cycle overview (pdf file).
- The handbook
includes assessment policies and guidelines, general education
outcomes, and instructions for ULM's online assessment reporting system
(pdf file).
- Assessment plans, results, and evaluation
rubrics for academic and support units are restricted
to ULM faculty & staff.
University of
Maryland
- Learning outcomes
assessment
- Overview of outcomes assessment at UM incuding history,
responsibilities, and calendar.
- University-level student-learning objectives, and
learning outcomes for specific CORE-curriculum (general education)
areas and for individual degree programs.
- CORE assessment plan (Word
document and Powerpoint/pdf presentation).
- Assessment materials (Word documents)
include:
- "Best practices" for developing assessment plans.
- Instructions for reporting assessment plans.
- Forms for reporting assessment plans and results.
- Procedure for reviewing assessment plans and results.
- Sample assessment plans and rubrics.
- Information about training workshops.
- Fast Facts includes links to some of
these materials, as well as reports (Word documents)
from some general education assessment projects.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Campus Assessment Working Group (CAWG): Assessment
of
campus-wide student experience
- Reports overview UM assessment
activities (mostly pdf files).
- Reports on CAWG assessment projects (pdf
files).
- FAQ about CAWG, projects, and activities.
University
of Maryland University College: Office of Outcomes Assessment
- Assessment plan (pdf
file) and overview of learning assessment at UMUC..
- Campus and program assessment plans (pdf
files). Program-level assessment reports
are restricted to UMUC faculty &
staff.
- Review criteria for institution-level assessments.
- General education outcomes (core learning areas).
- Resources include
- General information about assessment, an FAQ, and a
glossary (pdf files).
- Resources for core-area assessment (pdf
files).
- Results from core-area assessments (restricted
to UMUC faculty & staff).
University
of Massachusetts
Amherst: Office of Academic Planning & Assessment
- Information about and results from campus-wide
assessments, including NSSE and
senior and alumni surveys (pdf files).
- Information about course-based and program-level
assessment; mostly pdf files, including
- handbooks for program assessment and classroom
assessment techniques,
- a pilot test of a process for assessing writing,
- students' perspectives on the UM general education
experience and on the use of instructional technology, and
- case studies of individual
course- and program-based assessment projects.
- Information about the program review process and
results of campus-level assessment research.
University of Michigan
- Learning
Assessment Reports
- Assessment plans for the university's colleges (pdf
documents), from the university's 2000 North Central Association
reaccreditation self study.
- College
of Engineering
- Overview of assessment in the college.
- Assessment handbook.
- FAQ.
- Guidelines for designing and conducting program-
and course-level assessment.
- Learning goals, by program.
- Assessment reports, restricted to
UM College of Engineering faculty & staff.
University
of Minnesota
University
of
Minnesota, Morris
- History of assessment at UMM, including university
assessment plan.
- Academic and service department assessment plans.
- Summary of methods used in the various academic units.
- Assessment results from academic programs and some
service
departments.
- Results from surveys of students and faculty.
- Links to other assessment resources.
University
of
Missouri-Columbia
- Overview of assessment at MU.
- General education (core learning) objectives and use of
the
CAAP to assess some of them.
- Guidelines for assessing undergraduate major fields,
examples of assessment plans (pdf and Word
versions), and forms
for submitting departmental assessment plans & reports (Word
documents).
- The chapter Evaluation,
Assessment, Grading, Norming in MU's teaching guide for new
faculty includes FAQ-type information about assessment and links to
online resources.
University
of Montana
- About assessment at UM (html
page & pdf
file).
- Departmental assessment reports
- Guidelines for developing &implementing
assessment plans.
- Assessment guide (Word
document).
- Department records (reports, pdf files).
- The slides from the workshop
have useful overviews. (Note: The pages for
workshop classes 3
& 4 were not available when last checked.)
- An annotated "best practice" example of an assessment
report.
- Information about UM's upper-division writing assessment
- Information about the departmental assessment award was not
available when last checked.
- Links to other assessment resources; hardcopy documents
available on campus.
University
of Nebraska at Kearney
- Overview of UNK's assessment
process, strategic plan
for
assessment, and annual university-level assessment
reports.
- Administrative & faculty/staff responsbilities for
assessment at UNK and information from and about the office of assessment
and faculty & student
assessment
committees.
- Reporting calendar, rubric for evaluating assessment plans,
and
pre-2008 reports from undergraduate, graduate, & general
education programs
(pdf
files). More recent data, in WEAVEonline,
are restricted
to UNK faculty & staff.
- University-wide
assessment data
including NSSE, CAAP,
senior-survey reports, and UNK's College
Portrait (pdf files).
- UNK's NCA
self-study (pdf
files).
- Training
materials and assessment tips (html
pages, pdf
files).
- Resources
include
- An assessment glossary.
- An online assessment newsletter.
- Lists of on- and off-campus assessment events.
- Applications for assessment-related funding (pdf
files).
- Links to other assessment resources.
University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Overview of assessment at UNL, including examples of
measures used and impacts of assessment results.
- Assessment
planning includes information about UNL's assessment
committee and administrative & faculty responsibilities for
assessment.
- Outcomes assessment guidebook (pdf
file).
- Examples and models from individual academic units.
- The online assessment reporting database is restricted to UNL
faculty & staff.
- Institution-level assessment reports
- Information about support for survey research.
- NSSE results
and College Portrait (pdf
files; on the College
Portrait site, select College
Portraits, then Nebraska,
then UNL).
- On-campus and conference presentations about assessment at
UNL (pdf
files).
- Links to NCA
documents on assessment.
- Links to other assessment resources.
University of Nevada-Reno:
Office of University Assessment
- UNR's assessment model
includes an overview, the university assessment plan (pdf
file), guidelines for developing unit-level assessment plans, and (pdf
files) reporting templates.
- Assessment plans and reports from academic and service
departments.
- University-wide data: Results from
surveys and exit interviews, including NSSE
results (pdf files).
- Assessment Matters blog.
- Presentations from on-campus workshops (pdf
files).
- UNR's College
Portrait and NCA
self-study (pdf
file).
- Links to assessment resources.
University
of New Hampshire
- UNH
Assessments Portfolio
- About the portfolio project.
- Case studies of assessment in UNH courses, programs,
and departments (pdf files).
- Information about assessment mini-grants.
- Grad 965, a course in assessment for faculty and
graduate students.
- Links to other assessment websites.
- Institutional
Research & Assessment
- Results from surveys of recent graduates (pdf
files).
- Guidelines for academic program review (pdf
files). (Program review data are restricted to UNH
faculty and staff.)
- University factbook and Common Data Set (pdf
files), and Excel files of student data.
University
of North Alabama: Department of Institutional Research, Planning, and
Assessment
- Institutional
effectiveness
- The
guide for planning
and assessing institutional effectiveness includes an
overview of UNA's outcomes assessment process (pdf file).
- Reporting template and review guidelines (Word documents).
- Assessment strategies used by individual academic,
administrative, and support units (pdf
files).
- General education outcomes (Word documents).
- Guidelines for academic and administrative/support
program review (pdf
file, Word
document).
- On-campus presentations on outcomes assessment (pdf and Powerpoint files).
- Assessment: NSSE and general
education assessment results (pdf
files).
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
- Academic
Affairs
- Overviews of assessment and strategic planning
& evaluation
at
UNCC.
- Assessment & strategic plan reporting
instructions (pdf file)
and templates (Word documents).
- CLA
results (pdf
file).
- Data from surveys of student and faculty,
including NSSE results (pdf
& Excel
files and Powerpoint presentations).
- Resources are Word
documents about assessment.
- The Office of Institutional Research
has reports from surveys of students and alumni (html
pages and pdf files).
- Student
Affairs Research
- Results from surveys of students and alumni,
including
NSSE results (most are pdf
files).
- Research on the impact of the freshman year
experience.
- Presentations on assessment at UNC-C.
- Links to other Student Affairs Research
resources:
- Institutions doing research and assessment.
- Internet resources.
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
- Office
of Academic Assessment
- Access to WEAVEonline
is restricted
to UNCG faculty & staff.
- Links to assessment resources, including assessment
plans and rubrics from various major disciplines and general education
areas at other institutions.
- Office of
Institutional Research
- Information about and from surveys
of students and graduate and undergraduate alumni, including NSSE results (pdf
files).
- Institutional factbook.
University
of North Carolina at Pembroke
University
of North Dakota
- University assessment plan (pdf files).
- Agendas & minutes of the University Assessment
Committee (pdf
files).
- Suggestions, guidelines, examples, & reporting
template for departmental
assessment activities (html
pages, pdf
files, Word
documents).
- Academic & administrative departments' assessment
plans (pdf
files) and forms for assessment committee evaluation of plans and
reports (Word documents). The committee's assessment
reviews themselves are restricted
to UND faculty & staff.
- Presentations and results from some general education
assessment projects (pdf
files).
- Descriptions of student and faculty surveys. Results
summaries are available to the public; full results are restricted
to UND faculty and staff.
- Online assessment newsletter (pdf
files).
University
of North Texas
- Office
of Institutional Research and Effectiveness
- Training materials on developing & implementing
assessment plans and using TracDat:
- UNT strategic plan (pdf
file).
- Effectiveness
presentation handouts
for academic and administrative & support units (pdf files).
- Planning template and example for instructional programs
(Word
document).
- The training
presentations for academic & other units are optimized for Internet Explorer
and may not display properly in other browsers.
- Evaluation
survey for TracDat training sessions.
- Online newsletter (pdf
files).
- Still to
come: Academic and administrative units' outcomes.
- Links to other assessment resources.
- Office of
Planning and Assessment for Student Development
- Planning
& reporting (pdf
files).
- Assessment plan and map of responsibilities.
- Division of Student Development departments' learning
outcomes & methods.
- Annual report.
- Guidelines and materials from on-campus workshops.
- The institutional effectiveness database is restricted to UNT
faculty & staff.
- Division
data:
results from student surveys, including NSSE
(pdf files).
- Links to other resources.
University of
Northern Colorado: Office of University Assessment
- The program
review guidelines describe an annual assessment-based
review and a broader five-year review of academic programs (pdf files).
- UNCO's VSA/College Portrait
(pdf file).
- The TracDat
assessment database is restricted
to UNC faculty & staff.
- Results from surveys of students, faculty, & staff (pdf files).
- Student
services assessment initiative.
University
of Northern Iowa: Office of Academic Assessment
- Policies and resources
- Overview of assessment at UNI.
- College & depatrments' student outcomes
assessment (SOA) plans (restricted
to UNI faculty & staff).
- Policies and procedures include program review manuals (pdf files) and an
overview of