New Links

April 2008

Added to the section on Assessment Resources

• From North Carolina State University: LITRE Toolkit of annotated links to tools and resources for assessing:
• Student learning (in any context).
• Technology use in higher-education teaching & learning situations.

• ASSESS discussion-list: April 2008 threads Evidence of impact of student learning assessment? and Evidence of impact of student learning assessment, initiated by Lois Myers.

• 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.

• LiveText Accreditation Management System for collecting data and organizing outcomes, rubrics, results, etc.

• Academic Assessment Committee
• Institutional assessment plans (pdf files).
• Overview of ULV's general education assessment process.
• Individual departments' academic program reviews include assessment plans and program review reports (pdf files).
• Reports from campus-wide surveys and other assessments of the ULV learning environment, including NSSE results (pdf files).
• Examples of assessment instruments include surveys and rubrics used by individual academic units (pdf files).
• Division of Student Affairs
• FAQ.
• Formats for assessment plans and annual reports.
• Assessment plans from individual Student Affairs units.
• Links to assessment resources.

March 2008

• List of examples and resources provided by the University at Albany.

• 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:
  
• Bloom et al.'s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, from Educational Psychology Interactive at Valdosta State University.
• Bloom's Taxonomy, from the online textbook Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology, presents the revised version developed by Anderson et al in the 1990s. 
• Using the New Bloom's Taxonomy to Devise Meaningful Learning Assessments, from  the American Psychological Association's Assessment Cyberguide.
• Learning Domains, or Bloom's Taxonomy has examples from the affective and psychomotor domains as well as from the (old version of the) cognitive domain.

• 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.

Added to the section on 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.

• A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes (ETS, pdf file). Institutional strategies for using assessment effectively.

• Examples by specific disciplines in the University at Albany's list of assessment resources.
• Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century. From ASCE. Recommended outcomes and levels of achievement from baccalaureate, masters, and prelicensure experiences.
• Recommendations for minimum standards on ETS'  iSkills exams (pdf file).

• 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.

February 2008

• Indiana University Southeast

• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from Indiana University Southeast
• Assessment Terms, from Northwestern Health Sciences University

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.

• 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 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 (Word document).
• Links to other assessment resources.
• The electronic clearinghouse includes results from student surveys such as CCSSE (pdf files).

• 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.
• Links to other assessment resources.

• 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.

• Assessment principles and related policies.
• General education goals and assessment plan (the plan, System for assessing general education, is a pdf file). The assessment instruments and reports page includes information about and results from some general-education assessments.
• Assessment reports for the campus (Word documents) and some academic programs (pdf files).
• NSSE (pdf file) and other student survey results.
• Links to other resources.

• Assessment Handbook (Indiana University Southeast; individual chapters are pdf files)

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