Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

University Planning & Analysis

Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

New Links

This page has a new address: http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/archives/assmt/rsrc_new.htm
As of 2/14/13, the address includes "/archives/". The old address didn't -- it was simply http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/rsrc_new.htm. If you come here from the main Internet Resources page there'll be no problem. But if you try to come directly to the old New Links address (without the "/archives/"), for a while you'll be bounced to NC State University Planning & Analysis' new home page. On the UPA home page, click on Evaluation and select University Assessment from the drop-down menu. On the University Assessment page, select Resources, and then Internet Resources For Higher Education Outcomes Assessment. That will take you to the Internet Resources main page and you can go from there to the New Links page's new address. That "redirect" will stay in place for a few months, but after that using the old address will simply give you a "page not found" error. So if you have the Internet Resources or the New Links pages bookmarked, please update your bookmark. If you have a link to one of them on a page of your own, please update that link. And if you came to Internet Resources or the New Links page from a link on someone else's page, please ask them to update the link. Thanks for your help, and please bear with us as we adjust to this change.

This page has a new address: http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/archives/assmt/rsrc_new.htm

As of 2/14/13, the address includes "/archives/". The old address didn't -- it was simply http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/rsrc_new.htm. If you come here from the main Internet Resources page there'll be no problem. But if you try to come directly to the old New Links address (without the "/archives/"), for a while you'll be bounced to NC State University Planning & Analysis' new home page. On the UPA home page, click on Evaluation and select University Assessment from the drop-down menu. On the University Assessment page, select Resources, and then Internet Resources For Higher Education Outcomes Assessment. That will take you to the Internet Resources main page and you can go from there to the New Links page's new address.

That "redirect" will stay in place for a few months, but after that using the old address will simply give you a "page not found" error. So if you have the Internet Resources or the New Links pages bookmarked, please update your bookmark. If you have a link to one of them on a page of your own, please update that link. And if you came to Internet Resources or the New Links page from a link on someone else's page, please ask them to update the link.

Thanks for your help, and please bear with us as we adjust to this change.

April 2013

Added to the section on Assessment grants

Seton Hall University (the grant application is a Word document).
University of Michigan (scroll down to Funding for assessment of learning; downloadable forms are Word documents).
University of Northern Colorado (pdf file).

Added to the section on Consultants

Brad Rose Consulting
Education Development Growth Enterprises: Charles Pastors

Added to the section on Enrollment, completion, & earnings data

California Community Colleges: Student Success Scorecard

Statewide or individual community colleges' demographic profiles and persistence & completion rates.
See documentation (in the bottom menu) for methodology & details (pdf files).

Added to the section on Faculty attitudes towards outcomes assessment

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the March 2013 thread chronicle point of view piece, initiated by Zaneeta Daver. The the online version of the 3/11/13 Chronicle of Higher Education article to which this refers, "Who's Assessing the Assessors' Assessors?," includes readers' comments that illustrate a wide range of faculty attitudes towards outcomes assessment. The online version of the article is available to Chronicle subscribers and through most college/university libraries.

Added to the section on Glossaries: Assessment Terms

Assessment Glossary of Terms, from Palo Alto College

Added to the section on Grades as outcomes assessment

FAQs from Truckee Meadows Community College (search with the keyword "assessment," then click to expand the item about grades), the University of Denver, and the University of Mississippi (scroll down to Degree Programs).

Added to the section on Assessment "handbooks"

Academic Assessment Handbook (University of Alaska Anchorage, Word document).
Assessment of Academic Programs (San Diego State University, pdf file)
Assessment and Quality Enhancement for Institutional Effectiveness (Alamance Community College, pdf file)
Assessment Guide (University of Central Arkansas)
Assessment Manual (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Division of Educational, Student Services, & Student Life; pdf file)
Assessment Plannning Workbook (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Word document).

Added to the section on assessment of Information literacy

Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success, from ACRL, AIR, & APLU as part of ACRL's Value of Academic Libraries initiative.

Alamance Community College (North Carolina)

Overview and (pdf file) timeline for outcomes assessment.
Institutional effectiveness manual (handbook, pdf file).
Instructions for using WEAVEonline (pdf file; WEAVE access is restricted to ACC faculty & staff).
NILOA occasional paper on outcomes assessment in community colleges (pdf file).
Links to other assessment resources (this page).
Information about periodic program review (pdf files).

Harford Community College: Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness (Maryland)

Assessment at HCC (pdf files)

HCC strategic plan and Middle States accreditation standards.
Assessment model, process, & timeline.
TracDat access is restricted to HCC faculty & staff.

Student learning assessment

General education goals & outcomes (pdf files).
When last checked, the Maryland Higher Education Commission link went to an HCC catalog page with the general education outcomes.
Assessment activities (from HCC's assessment committee)

Catalog pages with individual academic programs' learning goals (outcomes).
Committee minutes and annual reports (pdf files).
Links to other assessment resources.
Still to come: HCC assessment examples, and information about curriculum mapping.

Student service & administrative assessment

Assessment cycle.
Strategic plan and assessment timeline (pdf files).
TracDat access is restricted to HCC faculty & staff.

HCC Instructional Resource Center

Assessment plan, reporting form, & FAQ (Word documents).
Links to other assessment resources.

Books available in the OIRPE library (pdf file).

Los Angeles Valley College: Outcomes Assessment Committee (California)

Student learning outcomes (SLO) manual and (Word documents, Powerpoint files) other resources for developing & implementing outcomes assessment processes.
Reporting forms for course-level and service-unit outcomes assessment (Word documents).
Student learning outcomes (SLOs)

For course outcomes, select find a course, then select a subject. Select a course and see Section II (course content and objectives).
Administrative & service units' outcomes (mostly pdf files).

Course assessment reports

Guidelines (Powerpoint files) and reporting form (Word document).
Assessment status reports (pdf files).
Sample course reports (Word documents).

Program assessment

Learning outcomes for LAVC's program pathways (the pdf file of pathways' subjects has descriptions of each outcome).
Assessment reports for each program pathway, and reporting forms (pdf & Powerpoint files).

Information about & from the committee (agendas and recent minutes are pdf files; older minutes have pdf icons but are Word documents).
Links to other resources.

Northern New Mexico College

The institutional assessment plan (Word document) was not available when last checked.
Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing assessment processes (pdf files).
Links to other assessment resources.
Templates (Word documents)

Course syllabus, including the course's learning outcomes.

Charter for an academic program's assessment advisory group.

Common core assessment reports to the New Mexico Higher Education Department (pdf files).
Template (Word document) and review rubric (pdf file) for academic programs' assessment reports. (The report card was not available when last checked.)

The individual programs' review reports include learning outcomes, assessment methods, & results, and the peer review comments (pdf files).

Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to NNMC faculty & staff.

Added to the section on Student assessment of courses and faculty

United States Military Academy (West Point): Online course-end feedback system. Overview, USMA (all-courses) items, question-bank for course & department items. Also see USMA's system for interim course feedback.

March 2013

Added to the section on Assessment journals

The Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

From NEEAN.
Abstracts available online to the general public; full articles can be downloaded by subscribers, via institutional libraries' JSTOR or MUSE memberships, or for a fee.

Added to the section on Assessment committees

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the

February 2013 thread Rubric for evaluating the quality of assessment plans, initiated by Shawna Lafreniere.
March 2013 thread an organizational question, initiated by Daryl Stevenson, and the associated threads an organizational question--larger institutions? and Organizational Question.

Added to the section on Automated essay scoring

Research comparing several automated essay scoring platforms (pdf file) and an InsideHigherEd article about a critique of the research.

Added to the section on Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS)

Hints, tips, and techniques from Oakland Community College.

Added to the section on Conferences: Lists of national, regional, and international assessment conferences, institutes, and workshops

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the March 2013 thread What Conferences Do You Attend? initiated by Becky Dueben.

Added to the section on Grades as outcomes assessment

Why Don't Grades Count As Assessment? from The New School (scroll down to Why Don't...).

Added to the sections on Qualitative data analysis methods and tools and Quantitative data analysis methods and tools

See Crafton Hill College's overview of Sampling for the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (pdf file).

Added to the section on Assessing general education knowledge and skill areas

National Assessment of Service and Community Engagement (NASCE), from Siena Research Institute at Siena College.

Bluegrass Community & Technical College (Kentucky)

Introduction to assessment and overview of periodic program review at BCTC.
Technical program assessment (pdf files)

Individual technical programs' learning outcomes & assessment plans.

See the faculty resources link in the main page's left-hand menu for a list of standardized end-of-program assessments used by some individual programs.

Status reports on development of assessment processes.

Assessment newsletter (pdf files).
Still to come:

General education assessment.
Resources: FAQ, rubric for evaluating program assessment processes, & links to other resources.

Missouri Valley College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning

Levels of assessment at MVC (pdf file).
Reporting forms, instructions, & guidelines for academic & service (administrative) programs (pdf files,Word documents).
Assessment reports from academic & service programs include program goals, outcomes, assessment methods, & results (pdf files).
NSSE/FSSE results (Excel, pdf, & Powerpoint files).
Links to other assessment resources.

Pace University: Office of Planning, Assessment and Institutional Research (New York)

Overview of the site and a report (pdf file, Blueprint for Accountability) on the development of assessment activities at Pace.
Assessment plans & activities

University assessment plan (Word document, Powerpoint presentation).
School plans: Individual academic units' assessment plans (Word documents).
Assessment plans from (some) academic & administrative support units (Word documents, Excel files).

Questions & answers FAQ.
Information about standardized assessment instruments used at Pace.
About Pace's participation in AACU's Bringing Theory to Practice initiative (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
Overview of NSSE results (Word document) and links to information about Pace initiatives related to NSSE benchmarks.
Information for students about assessment.
Assessment News newsletter (pdf files).
Assessment-related presentations & publications by Pace faculty & staff (pdf files).
Resources for staff and faculty include:

Introduction to assessment (Powerpoint file) and guidelines for assessing administrative & support units (Word document).
Links to other assessment resources (including a Word document with links to examples from other institutions).

Information about periodic academic program review (pdf files, Word document).

SUNY Fredonia: Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment (New York)

Overview of assessment at SUNY Fredonia.

Guidelines for assessment plans (html page) and a reporting template and feedback form (pdf files) are available from the College of Arts & Sciences assessment page.

The Arts & Science page also has individual degree programs' assessment plans & curriculum maps (pdf file).

Information about assessment in the College of Education and the School of Business.
General education assessment

Fredonia's general education assessment policy and information about the SUNY System's general education (GEAR) assessment cycle (pdf files, html page).
Assessment reports for various general education categories (pdf files).

Overview of assessment in student affairs and administrative units (the administration and university advancement divisons' annual reports are pdf files).
Information about instruments used for campus-wide outcomes assessment.

The IRPA home page has information about the Survey of Student Perception of Learning (pdf files; access to the survey is restricted to Fredonia faculty, staff, or students).

Schedule & guidelines for periodic academic program review (Word documents).

Information & resources include:

An overview of assessment.
Overviews & guidelines for assessment of student learning and institutional effectiveness, for assessment methods, and for documenting assessment plans & reports.
A brief bibliography and links to other assessment resources.

Information about the campus assessment committee.

The New School (New York)

Overview of assessment.
Program assessment

The memo on program-level assessment includes an annual timeline (pdf file).
Planning & reporting templates (pdf files).
Guidelines & tips for developing & implementing an assessment process (pdf files, html pages).

Information about on-campus assessment events.
Links to other assessment resources.

University of California, Riverside: Evaluation, Assessment, and Institutional Research

Reports (pdf files)

General education and university writing program learning outcomes assessment.
Other assessments of the writing program and first year communities.

Links to other assessment resources.

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Overview of assessment.
Department and program assessment: Guidelines, tips, & examples for developing & implementing assessment processes.
General education assessment: AAC&U's essential learning outcomes (pdf file) and AAC&U & locally-developed rubrics (Word documents).

Information from UW-Whitewater's involvement in AAC&U's LEAP initiative (pdf & Excel files, Word documents, htmlpages, video files).

Information about & from the assessment committee.

Assessment processes at UW-Whitewater, and flowchart (Word documents).
Annual report of assessment results (Word document).

Links to on-campus assessment-related resources, including information about UW-Whitewater's assessment day.

Added to the section on Specialized/Professional Accrediting Associations

Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)

NCATE and TEAC have merged to become CAEP.
In the Standards, see especially the Rationale and Standards of Evidence for Standard 1 (Content and Pedagogical Knowledge).

Note: As of March 2013 the Standards are still in draft form.

Added to the section on Student assessment of courses and faculty

SUNY Fredonia's online course evaluation. Resources include an example of the instrument and tips for faculty. Access to Digital Measures and to the online instrument itself are restricted to Fedonia faculty, staff, or students.)
In the subsection on Using the Web for student evaluation of courses and faculty

CollegeNet's What-Do-You-Think?

February 2013

Added to the section on Assessing administrative and support units

Outcomes Assessment Guide for Geniuses is a lighthearted (but serious) look at assessment processes and issues for administrative & support units (Georgia State University, pdf file).

Added to the section on Assessing online education

NILOA Occasional Paper: Assessing Learning in Online Education: The Role of Technology in Improving Student Outcomes.

Added to the section on Assessment Rubrics

College of Charleston's links to general education rubrics.

Added to the entry for Bloom's Taxonomy

"Wheel" and "rose" graphic representations posted by Butte College.

Added to the entry for the National Student Clearinghouse's November 2012 Signature Report (in the section on Enrollment, completion, & earnings data)

A state-by-state supplement was added in February 2013; the Chronicle of Higher Education's interactive map summarizes its data. (The online Chronicle article is restricted to subscribers; most college/university libraries subscribe.)

Added to the section on Glossaries: Assessment Terms

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February 2013 thread "will" vs "should" in learning outcomes, initiated by Catherine Kelley, about the implications of how learning outcomes are defined.
Assessment of Student Learning Glossary, from Community College of Allegheny County
Assessment Terminology, from Delta College (pdf file)
Glossary of Terms and Concepts, from Humboldt State University
Useful Assessment Terms, from California State University-San Marcos

Added to the section on Grades as outcomes assessment

"We already give grades. Isn't that enough?"

FAQ from Madison Area Technical College.
Communication to the faculty at the University of Texas at Tyler (pdf file).

Added to the entry for the National Assessment Governing Board

The Learning Curve, from Pearson and The Economist Intelligence Unit, analyzes a range of internationally-comparable K-12-level data.

Added to the section on Assessment "handbooks"

Assessment Manual (Del Mar College, pdf file)
Assessment of Student Learning Handbook (New Mexico Junior College, pdf file)
Student Learning Assessment: Options and Resources (Gettysburg College, pdf file)

Added to the section on Assessing general education knowledge and skill areas

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February 2013 thread Quantitative Literacy initiated by Michele Dornisch.

Foothill College (California)

History of outcomes assessment at Foothill.
Institutional (general education) learning outcomes and (pdf files) associated rubrics.
Guidelines for developing course- & program-level learning outcomes & assessment processes.
Public database of academic, service, & administrative units' outcomes.
Assessment calendar & planning information (pdf files).
Toolbox

TracDat user guides (pdf files). TracDat access is restricted to Foothill faculty & staff.
Sample reports (WinZipped archive of pdf files).
Links to other resources (mostly pdf files).

Reports & examples from course- & program-level, general education, administrative, & service area assessment (pdf files; some open in Internet Explorer but may not open in other browsers. Administrative-unit summaries are in a WinZipped archive.)

Humboldt State University: Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (California)

Guidelines & resources for course- & program-level assessment, general education assessment, & assessment of academic support programs (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
Reporting deadlines.
Glossary and assessment myths.
HSU and general education learning outcomes (html pages & pdf files), and information about developing & using rubrics (Word documents).
Program learning outcomes were not available whel last checked.
PREP (Compliance Assist) assessment-management tool. The student affairs and planning manuals are pdf files. The academic programs manual and access to the PREP system are restricted to HSU faculty & staff.
Assessment summary reports (Word documents) and CLA results (pdf files).
Resources include materials from on-campus workshops (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents) and links to other assessment resources.

Purdue University (Indiana)

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University-wide undergraduate student learning outcomes.
Assessment plans: Reports on assessment of strategic planning (pdf files) and from Student Affairs. (Still to come: Plans & reports from other units.)
Assessment activities: Information about student surveys used at Purdue.
Evidence of assessment and post-graduation data: Results from NSSE and other surveys of students and alumni (pdf files).
Use of assessment evidence: Reports from individual assessment projects (pdf files, Word documents).
Resources include

Information about on-campus assessment assistance.
Links to other assessment resources. (Other resource links are available from the Center for Instructional Excellence.)
Still to come: Information about assessment mini-grants.

Materials from an on-campus assessment forum (Powerpoint & pdf files).
Information about & from the assessment committee (coordinators team; minutes are pdf files).

Ramapo College of New Jersey

About Ramapo's assessment process (Word documents).

Planning materials include an overview of assessment, guidelines for developing & implementing assessment, and for reporting assessment plans & results.
Flowchart of Ramapo's assessment process.

Resources include:

FAQ (Word document).
A glossary.
College-wide and general education learning outcomes (html page, Word document; also available under Curriculum and Assessment).
Rubrics for some general education and discipline-specific outcomes, and (under assessment methods), guidelines for using rubrics (pdf files, Word documents).
Bibliography and links to other assessment resources.
Information about on- and off-campus assessment-related conferences & workshops.

Assessment Briefs newsletter (pdf files).
Data include:

CLA results (pdf file).
Institutional assessments: Information about and links to results from surveys & instruments including CLA and NSSE (Word document).

Information about Ramapo's assessment committees (Word documents).

University of Texas at Tyler: Office of Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness

Calendar and timeline (pdf file), and upcoming on-campus events.
Forms for academic and administrative & support unit assessment reports (Word documents).
Information about surveys & standardized instruments used at UT-Tyler, including results (pdf files, html pages) for NSSE and some other instruments.
Tips & guidelines for using Qualtrics survey software. Access to Qualtrics is restricted to UT-Tyler faculty, staff, & students.
Information about & from the assessment committee (minutes are Word documents).
Links to other assessment resources.

Walden University (Minnesota)

Overview of outcomes assessment at Walden.
Individual academic programs' learning outcomes.
Results from surveys of students, alumni, & employers.
Assessment results from the Riley College of Education and Leadership.
About Walden's participation in HLC's Academy for Assessment of Student Learning.

Added to the section on Student assessment of courses and faculty

Information for students and faculty about Purdue University's online CoursEval. Access to CoursEval surveys is restricted to Purdue students, faculty, & staff.

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