New Links

July 2009

• Loyola Marymount University

Added to the section on Glossaries: Assessment Terms

• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from Loyola Marymount University.

Added to the section on State-by-state evaluations of higher education

• 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.

• What's Happening in Your Department With Assessment? (pdf file). Survey of departments' assessment activities. From the American Sociological Association.

• 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.

June 2009

• 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.

• Qualtrics. See the qualtrics research suite for details.

• Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Manual (University of Delaware)

• Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC)
• From OECD (the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).
• An ongoing development project, not yet an active assessment process.

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.

• 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.

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

• Overview of the undergraduate assessment process and instructions/details of sophomore & senior assessments.
• FAQ.
• School-wide learning outcomes (competencies).
• Annual assessment reports (pdf files).

• 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.

United States Military Academy (West Point): Office of Policy, Planning, and Assessment

• OPPA's assessment page was under development when last checked.
• Learning outcomes for the Cadet Leader Development System (CLDS; click each picture for details of the domain's goals & outcomes).
• Center for Teaching Excellence overview of classroom assessment techniques (CATS).

• 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.

• AHELO: Feasability Study for the International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes
• From OECD (which includes the U.S.).
• An ongoing study, not yet an  active assessment/quality-assurance process.

May 2009

• Waubonsee Community College

• Waubonsee Community College's guide to developing rubrics (pdf file).

• Hints, tips, techniques, and examples from Waubonsee Community College (pdf file).

• James Madison University's online certificate program in assessment.

• RXportfolios, for pharmacy programs, is part of the RXInsider Academic Suite which also includes assessment-management tools.

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

• LimeSurvey: Free open-source survey program.

• In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see theApril 2009 thread Type of assessment offices, initiated by Junelyn Peeples.

• RXoutcome, for pharmacy programs, is part of the RXInsider Academic Suite which also includes portfolio tools.

• Assessment Handbook (Southwestern University, pdf file).

• 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.
• Diversity & Democracy online journal, special issue on assessing diversity and diversity-related learning outcomes.

• 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.

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).

• 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).

• 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).

• About Waubonsee's TOP (The Outcomes Program).
• Institutional outcomes
• General education outcomes (the TOP measure), assessment process, and results.
• Information about the periodic program review process, which includes outcomes assessment & reporting.
• Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to Waubonsee faculty & staff.
• Outcomes assistance includes:
• Information about TOP (assessment) mini-grants (pdf file) and funded projects.
• Information about and from on-campus workshops & webinars.
• Resources include:
• Guidelines & tips for developing and implementing assessment processes (pdf files).
• Links to other assessment resources.

• Using students' written comments: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive , see the May 2009 thread Written comments from students about a faculty member, initiated by Susan King.

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