New Links

February 2010

Added to the section on Assessment Grants

• Meredith College

• "We already give grades. Isn't that enough?" The issue's addressed in Pennsylvania State University's FAQ.

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February 2010 thread qualitative software reviews?, initiated by Christopher Vinger.
• Content-analysis.de's annotated links to qualitative analysis software packages and other information about content-analysis methods.

• Department of Academic Assessment
• About assessment committees at MSCD (html pages, pdf files).
• Reporting forms (Word [docx] documents, Excel [xls, xlsx] files).
• Reports from individual academic programs are restricted to MSCD faculty & staff.
• About MSCD initiatives to reward program assessment achievement.
• Resources
• Tools include guidelines for program assessment (pdf file), a brief glossary, and sample rubrics (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Assessment Manual (Northern Illinois University)

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2010 thread Student Evaluations of Faculty in Online Courses, initiated by Arnold Gelfman.

January 2010

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

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

• Emporia State University (Word documents)
• Ferris State University
• Florida Atlantic University (pdf file & Word document)

• Developing/fostering positive attitudes and a "culture of assessment"
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2010 thread Compliance-Commitment (was [SACS] Taking the Fifth) initiated by Karen Kate Kellum.

• Common Language of Assessment of Student Learning (Del Mar College).
• Selected Assessment Terms and Definitions, from California State University, Northridge (Word document).

• The Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education includes research on relationships between NSSE benchmarks and more direct measures of student learning. In Research And Publications, use your browser's (F)ind function to search for report titles that include "NSSE."

• Academic Program Assessment Plans (California State University, Sacramento; pdf file)
• Assessment Primer: Building Communities (Doņa Ana Community College, pdf file)
• Guide for Learning Outcomes Assessment & Classroom Learning Assessment (Community College of Baltimore County, pdf file)

• In the subsection on Assessing general education knowledge and skill areas
• College BASE (College Basic Academic Subjects Examination), from the University of Missouri-Columbia's Assessment Resource Center.
• List of SACS institutions' Quality Enhancement Projects that involve teaching & assessing writing, from David Eubanks' assessment blog.
• In the subsection on assessing STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics)
• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the October 2009 thread Assessing Gen Ed Science Outcome initiated by Jill Hirt.

• The Assessment Resource Center in the College of Education provides:
• The College BASE general education assessment.
• Assessment-related services to MU faculty and to the broader community.

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see 
• The December 2009 threads Student Evaluation of Courses: A controversial policy, initiated by Jonathan Keiser, and Timing of Student Evaluation of Faculty, initiated by Michelle Miller.
• The January 2010 threads Incentives and Motivators to Complete Class Evaluations and Class Evaluation Incentive Strategies - Your Responses, initiated by Jean Gomes. The responses post includes a Word [docx] document of on- and off-list responses to the question.
• California State University, San Marcos. FAQ, instructions (Word document), sample evaluation forms for various types of courses (pdf files), and overview of evaluation reports (Word document).
• Dominican University's SIR II (Student Instructional Report II) departmental summaries (pdf files) show the survey questions & scales.
• University of Missouri's Student Evaluation of Instruction & Course has forms for various course structures.

December 2009

• Hints, tips, techniques, and examples from:
• Barton County Community College (pdf file)
• Middle Tennessee State University, with suggestions for using the techniques to assess the impact of classroom technology

• Assessment & Curriculum Glossary, from Madison Area Technical College (pdf file)

National and international accountability / assessment projects

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

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

• Assessment planning for academic programs: A practical workbook (Arizona State University, pdf file)

• Discipline-specific assessment examples from the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA).
• In the subsection on Assessing general education knowledge and skill areas
• Assessment of Writing, published by AIR. Part of AIR's series on assessment in the disciplines.
• Criteria for standards in history, from the American Historical Association.
• Developed for K-12 but applicable to undergraduate programs as well.
• Position paper on outcomes assessment (pdf file).
• From the American Philosophical Association.
• Includes examples of outcomes & assessment processes from individual philosophy departments.
• Resources from the American Political Science Association.
• Includes examples from individual Political Science departments.
• The book Assessment in Political Science can be purchased from the Association's website.
• Theatre
• Assessment guidelines (pdf file) from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
• National Association of Schools of Theatre documents on assessing undergraduate and graduate programs.

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

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