Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

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Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

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November 2009

Added to the section on Assessment Grants

Keene State College
Minnesota State University, Mankato (pdf files; scroll down to Assessment Grants)

Added to the section on Glossaries: Assessment Terms

Dictionary of Terms, from Keene State College.

Added to the section on Grades as outcomes assessment

"We already give grades. Isn't that enough?" The issue's addressed in the FAQ from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Added to the section on Impact of assessment

November 2009 ASSESS discussion-list thread 404: Learning outcomes, initiated by David Eubanks, and David's blog entry on the topic.

Added to the section on Institutional support for outcomes assessment

More than you think, less than we need: Learning outcomes assessment in American higher education. NILOA survey of institutions' assessment practices.

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

Council of Writing Program Administrators

Outcomes for first-year writing.
Resources include "best practice" examples and a white paper on writing assessment.

Arapahoe Community College (Colorado)

Overview of assessment at ACC.
Assessment of student learning at the program level

Guidelines, worksheets, & reporting templates (pdf & Excel files).
Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
Individual academic programs' assessment plans & reports (pdf files).

Institutional assessment (pdf files).

The institutional effectiveness report includes results from student surveys.
Reporting template for support & service units.
Surveys used by support & service units.

Eastern Connecticut State University: University Assessment Committee

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

Georgia College & State University

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

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

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

Minnesota State University, Mankato: Office of Institutional Planning, Research and Assessment

FAQ.
Institution assessment plan (pdf files) and program assessment plans (Word documents).
Academic assessment

Overview (pdf file) and diagram.
General education assessment

Overview.
Outcomes & assessment rubrics.

Reporting forms for assessment plans & results (Word documents).
NSSE & BCSSE results (pdf files).
Calendars & guidelines for periodic program review (pdf files, Word documents).
Student affairs assessment: Overview, guidelines, library resources, & links to other assessment resources,
Assessment plans & reports from some administrative units (pdf files).
Support/resources

Overview & guidelines.
Assessment methods.
Information about assessment mini-grants.
On-campus library materials.
Links to other assessment resources.

October 2009

Added to the section on Assessment Grants

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:

October 2000 thread Mini-grant parameters and information initiated by Kurt Gunnell, and the related October & November posts Mini-grant information and Mini-grant information list.
October 2009 thread Assessment Mini Grants initiated by Lea Campbell, and the associated response threads.

Texas A&M Student Life Studies (pdf file)

Added to the section on Assessment Rubrics

Issues in creating effective rubrics

Popham (1997), What's wrong -- and what's right -- with rubrics? (pdf file).
Tierney & Simon (2004), What's still wrong with rubrics: Focusing on the consistency of performance criteria across scale levels.

Added to the section on Glossaries: Assessment Terms

Assessment Glossary from the University of South Carolina.

Added to the section on Institutional support for outcomes assessment / Staffing assessment

Assessment budgets: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the October 2009 thread Budgets, initiated by Susan Warner.
Faculty assessment fellows: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the October 2009 thread Faculty assessment fellow responsibilities, initiated by Kathleen Morley.

Added to the section on Portfolio Assessment

Open ePortfolio (Select Overview and scroll down to More Articles. See especially Assessment through 20. Review Comments.)

Added to the section on Tools to Help Organize Assessment Information

aPlus+, from Cobek, for organizing & summarizing assignment details & grades.

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

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:

February 1999 thread General Education Assessment initiated by Jeanne Osborn.
October 2009 thread Assessing Gen Ed initiated by Joy Milano.

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Office of Institutional Research

Results from surveys of students and alumni, including NSSE results (pdf files).
CLA results (pdf files) and UNCA's College Portrait.
Links to other resources.

Division of Student Affairs: Assessment & Planning

Student Affairs and UNCA learning goals (pdf files).
Individual departments' annual reports include goals, assessment methods, & results (pdf files).
Reporting forms & templates (Word document, Excel file).
Links to other assessment resources.

September 2009

Assessment Resource Centre

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

Added to the section on Glossaries: Assessment terms

Glossary, from the Assessment Resource Centre.
Glossary, from California Lutheran University.
Glossary of Assessment Terms, from Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Added to the section on Impact of assessment

In the list of ASSESS discussion-list threads on this topic (see the list archive):

September 2009 threads Assessment, Budgeting, & Strategic Planning and [Spam] Re: [ASSESS:] Assessment, Budgeting, & Strategic Planning initiated by Erin Frew.

Added to the section on Assessment "handbooks"

Course and Program Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Handbook (Santa Rosa Junior College, pdf file)

Butte College (California)

Overview of assessment at BC.
Resources include

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

California Lutheran University

Assessment system: An overview of assessment at CLU.
Learning outcomes

Institutional (general education) learning outcomes (pdf files, Word document).

Learning outcomes from some individual academic programs (Word documents).

Sources of evidence for achievement of learning outcomes:

Rubrics & assessment results for communication, critical thinking, & information literacy outcomes (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).

Student satisfaction, NSSE, & FSSE results (pdf & Excel files, Word documents, html pages).

Guidelines on writing learning outcomes and incorporating them in course syllabi (Word documents; also see the curriculum maps).

Curriculum maps from some academic programs (html pages, Poweerpoint files, Word documents).

Information about periodic program review at CLU (pdf files).
The data warehouse is restricted to CLU faculty & staff.
Resources include:

Material from on-campus workshops about assessment and program review (pdf & Powerpoint files).
Assessment tools including a glossary, a template for reporting survey results (Word document), guidelines for and examples of assessment rubrics (Word documents), and links to other resources.
Information about surveys at CLU.

College of San Mateo (California)

Overview of assessment at CSM.
Assessment plan (Word document).
Student learning outcomes

General education outcomes.
Course-level outcomes from some CSM degree programs (pdf files), and outcomes for some certificate programs.
Outcomes from some student and instructional support units (pdf files).

Resources include:

Reporting matrices (pdf files).
Guidelines, handouts, and handbooks (pdf files; some were not available when last checked).
Links to other assessment resources.

Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island)

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

Mercer County Community College: Office of Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning (New Jersey)

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

Minnesota State University Moorhead

Overview of assessment at MSUM, and policies & procedures.
Dragon Core (general education) learning outcomes and assessment process, including reports (pdf files) from individual assessment projects.
Reporting instructions and templates (Word documents).
Assessment plans & reports from individual academic programs, with assessment committee comments (html pages & pdf files).
Examples of impacts on curricula.
Resources include:

Glossary, and guidelines for developing assessment plans & methods.
Assessment committee review rubrics (pdf files).
NCA-HLC's guide for accreditation reviews (pdf file).

Santa Rosa Junior College (California)

FAQ.
Assessment handbook (pdf file).
Goals for SRJC's assessment project.
Guidelines for developing & assessing course-level student learning outcomes.
Guidelines and reporting templates for program-level outcomes assessment (pdf files, Word documents).
Institutional (general education) learning outcomes and (pdf files) assessment reports.
Examples of assessment projects from SRJC programs (pdf files).
Links to other assessment resources (Word documents, and a link to this page).

Texas Wesleyan University

Overview of assessment at TWU.
Reporting templates for academic & administrative departments (pdf files, Word documents).
Academic area strategic plan (Word document).
Links to other resources.

The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC)

Outcomes and assessment processes for individual academic programs.
Results from surveys of undergraduate and graduate alumni (pdf files).
NSSE results (pdf files).
Assessment bibliography & sources, with some links to online resources.

Valdosta State University (Georgia)

University Assessment Committee

Institutional effectiveness reports from academic and administrative/support units include assessment processes & results (pdf files).
Reporting forms for academic and administrative/support units (pdf files).
Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).

Student Affairs Assessment Committee

Overview and history of student affairs assessment at VSU.
Committee documents include workshop handouts and reporting forms & instructions (pdf files).
Individual departments' assessment plans include processes & results (pdf files).
Links to other assessment resources.

Added to the section on Student assessment of courses and faculty

California Lutheran University's online CoursEval system (html pages, pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents). Access to CoursEval itself is restricted to CLU students, faculty, & staff.
University of Hawai'i's eCAFE online course evaluation system. The FAQ and eCAFE blog have information about the process. Published results from some faculty members are available.
Comparing paper and online evaluation systems:

Online course evaluations: Sources consulted. From Monica Stitt-Bergh at the University of Hawai'i.
An initial bibliography on online course evaluations (pdf file). Compiled and annotated by Scott Krajewski at Augsburg College. (Thanks to Monica Stitt-Bergh for bringing this to my attention.)
The bibliography of Online student survey comments: A qualitative improvement? includes links to other reports (pdf file). By David Collings & Christina Ballantyne at Murdoch University. (Thanks to Ed Siegel at Pasco-Hernando Community College for bringing this to my attention.)
In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see:

The November 2002 thread Online evaluations initiated by Pat Mizak.
The September 2009 thread Transitioning from paper-based to online end-of-course evaluation initiated by Ying Xiong.

In the subsection on Commercial and freeware systems for web-based evaluation

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see:

The September 2007 thread Re: Online Course Evaluation initiated by Shannan McNair.
The September 2009 thread Course Evaluation Software initiated by Kevork Horissian.

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