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National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)

 

  • General Principles of Assessment of Academic Advising
  • Implications for Assessment of Academic Advising (2011 National Survey Results)
  • Constructing Student Learning Outcomes in Academic Advising
  • Resources include:
  • Guidelines, handouts and materials (pdf files)
  • Institutional Examples

Assessing Academic Advising

Assessing Academic Advising

  • National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)
  • General Principles of Assessment of Academic Advising
  • Implications for Assessment of Academic Advising (2011 National Survey Results)
  • Constructing Student Learning Outcomes in Academic Advising
  • Resources include:
    • Guidelines, handouts and materials (pdf files)
    • Institutional Examples
    • UC-Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning
    • Assessing Academic Advising
    • Assessing Academic AdvisingOn the ASSESS discussion list see the May 2015 thread Learning Outcomes for Advising, initiated by Renee Hicks.

Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE)

AALHE (Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education)

  • A professional association for higher education assessment practitioners, AALHE became available to the assessment community in spring 2010.
  • Some website features are restricted to AALHE members, some are available to the public (the list below indicates which features are restricted). The site includes:
    • Information about AALHE and about joining AALHE.
    • Links to other assessment resources and to presentations from previous AALHE conferences. (See the Resource Room.)
    • Opportunities for interaction about assessment issues, via topic-specific webinars, and on the ASSESS discussion list. (Webinar participation is restricted to AALHE members. The ASSESS list is available to the public in the Resource Room.)
    • Intersection, a quarterly online publication, is restricted to members.
    • Information about & from AALHE’s events (annual conferences, Twitter chats, & webinars. Twitter chats & webinars are restricted to AALHE members. Presentations from previous conferences are open to the public in the Resource Room.)

ACT

ACT

  • Surveys and assessment tools for colleges & universities.
  • Links to information about other ACT tools for higher education.

American Evaluation Association

American Evaluation Association

  • Resources for and information about assessment & evaluation in many contexts, including education & higher education. See About Us.
  • Community resources
    • EVALTALK online discussion list.
    • The public e-library includes a daily blog and (pdf and Powerpoint files) materials from AEA conference presentations.
    • Discussion forums for AEA members.

American Society for Quality: Education Division

American Society for Quality: Education Division

  • A division of ASQ, the national organization for the application of quality control in business and industry.
  • K-12 as well as higher education.
  • Some articles in the Division’s online journal Quality Approaches in Higher Education deal with assessing student learning outcomes. Some issues of its Higher Education Brief focus on assessment & accountability; recent issues are available to the public.

Assessing Administrative and Support Units

Assessing Administrative and Support Units

Assessing Assessment: In Academe

Assessing Assessment: In Academe, from AAUP.

  • The first four feature articles in this issue deal with assessment.

Assessing Online Education

Assessing Online Education

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the
    • January thread CAAP test for online and other students, initiated by Cyndi Walljasper.
    • January 2016 thread Online Course Evaluations, initiated by Lynne Crosby.
    • April 2016 thread Online Course Evaluation Platforms, initiated by Crystal Braden.
  • College Choices for Adults
    • Note: The College Choices for Adults project ended early in 2013 and the website was closed.
    • The website included data from institutions that stress online programs, including engagement (NSSE) and alumni satisfaction results. Program-level information included learning outcomes and assessment methods.
    • From the Transparency By  Design initiative.
  • NILOA Occasional Paper: Assessing Learning in Online Education: The Role of Technology in Improving Student Outcomes (pdf file).
  • Quality Matters rubric for online & blended courses. Access to the full rubric requires a subscription (see subscriptions in the right-hand menu).
  • SmarterMeasure’s assessment of readiness for online learning.

Assessing Service Learning

Assessing Service Learning

Assessment Committees

Assessment Committees

  • ASSESS discussion-list threads on committee structure and function (see the list archive):
    • March 1999 thread Faculty Committees, initiated by Suzanne Decamp.
    • September 2003 thread Course Releases for Faculty on Assessment Committees? initiated by Tiffany Phagan.
    • October 2005 thread Committee Structure, initiated by David Gordon.
    • November 2007 thread Institutional Assessment Committee, initiated by Erin Frew. Note Erin’s 11/22/07 summary of responses.
    • February 2009 thread Assessment Committees? initiated by Charles Patrick.
    • May 2010 thread University Assessment Committee, initiated by Jerald Henderson.
    • September 2010 thread Relationship of Assessment Committee and Academic Policies Committee, initiated by David Knopp.
    • March 2013 thread An Organizational Question, initiated by Daryl Stevenson, and the associated threads An Organizational Question–Larger Institutions? and Organizational Question.
    • July 2013 thread Assessment Committees, initiated by Leah Adams-Curtis, and her follow-up posts Summary of Responses for Assessment Committee and Summary of Assessment Committee Information.
    • July 2015 thread Assessment Committees initiated by Kimberly Fath.
    • May 2016 thread Overseeing Assessment at the Institutional Level, initiated by Kristin Buscher.
  • Periodic assessment reports (often received and responded to by an assessment committee).
    • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the
      • October 2010 thread Rubrics to Evaluate Quality of Assessment, initiated by Keston Fulcher.
      • September 2011 thread Faculty Evaluation of Annual Assessment Reports, initiated by Donna Vinton.
      • January 2012 thread Dean’s Role in Reviewing Assess Reports, initiated by Kathleen Morley.
      • May 2012 thread Assessment Report Review Process, initiated by Erin Frew.
      • July 2012 thread Administrative Responses to Annual Assessment Reports and Program Review, initiated by Shawna Lafreniere.
      • February 2013 thread Rubric for Evaluating the Quality of Assessment Plans, initiated by Shawna Lafreniere.
      • July 2013 thread Discovering Plagiarism During Juried Evaluations? initiated by Chris Duke.
      • June 2014 thread Timing of Assessment Reporting, initiated by Leah Adams-Curtis.
      • September 2014 thread External Review of Program Assessment Plans/Annual Reports, initiated by Ying Xiong.
      • September 2015 thread Peer Review of Assessment Plans, initiated by Cynthia Louden.
      • May 2016 thread Dark Assessment, initiated by Mary Herrington-Perry.
    • What should departments report, and to whom? In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
      • October 1999 thread Who Collects Reports? initiated by Jane Thayer.
      • July 2009 thread What’s in Your Annual Assessment Reports? initiated by Pat Williams.
      • March 2010 thread Posting Assessment Docs, initiated by Jayne Swanson.
      • January 2014 thread Trend of Sharing Assessment Results/Reports Online, initiated by Norma Mora¡n.
      • September 2014 thread Program Assessment Outcomes and Objectives, initiated by Deborah Armstrong.
      • November 2015 thread Assessment versus Accreditation Compliance, initiated by Sharon Walters.
      • December 2015 thread Program Learning Outcomes, initiated by Susan Warner.
      • December 2015 thread Is ‘Earn a passing score on the national exam’ really a student learning outcome?, initiated by Mary Herrington-Perry.

Assessment Grants

Assessment Grants

Assessment Humor

Assessment Humor

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
    • March 2001 thread Assessment Jokes and Cartoons, initiated by Mark Troy.
    • May 2009 thread Humor and Assessment, initiated by Pamela Macpherson.
    • May 2016 thread Assessment Humor on the web, initiated by Mark Riddle.
  • Days of Reckoning, a satire from InsideHigherEd.
  • The Pre-Ninja Program, from InsideHigherEd.

Assessment Information for Students

Assessment Information for Students

  • Use your browser’s (F)ind function to search the individual institutions’ assessment sites for the phrase “for students”.
  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the
    • May 2012 thread Feedback for Students, initiated by Allison Ostrowski.
    • May 2012 thread Informational Assessment Statements and Student Consent Procedures, initiated by Elise Martin.
    • July 2013 thread How Do You Get Students Interested in Assessment, initiated by Christopher Childs.
    • June 2015 thread Information for Students initiated by Elizabeth Prude.

Assessment and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

Assessment and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

  • How IRBs interpret the federal regulations on research with human subjects varies from campus to campus.
    • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
      • November 1999 thread IRB Letters, initiated by Jamie Young.
      • October 2001 thread IRB Approval, initiated by Kevin Kinser.
      • January 2002 thread  IRB Approval and Assessment Instruments, initiated by Barry Jenkins.
      • August 2004 thread IRB is, initiated by Edward Grandpre.
      • September 2004 threads External Survey Requests and Passions Aside, IRB is Necessary, initiated by Karen Widbin and Mark Davenport.
      • September 2005 threads Policy About Use of Assessment Results for Personal Research Activities and Use of Assessment Results, initiated by Karen Widbin and Alan DuPont.
      • April 2007 thread On Assessment and IRB, initiated by Marsha Watson.
      • August 2009 thread IRB, initiated by Valerie Taylor.
      • April 2010 thread IRB’s and Educational Research, initiated by Curt Naser.
      • November 2010 thread Institutional Review Board & Assessment, initiated by Melanie Booth.
      • February 2011 thread An Bit of Friday Afternoon Diversion, initiated by Lea Campbell, and the follow-up threads An Bit of Friday Afternoon Diversion…Which has Spilled Over in to the Weekend and Monday Morning as well… and An Bit of Friday Afternoon Diversion – Now Bleeding into Tuesday. This request for information about institutions’ assessment climate became an extended discussion of assessment & IRBs.
      • October 2011 thread Asmt Ethics, initiated by Joan Hawthorne, and the related post Further Consideration Regarding Assessment Ethics. The main thread includes discussions of ethical standards for assessment and how institutional review boards (IRBs) deal with assessment activities.
      • September 2012 thread Student Services Assessment for Decision Making and IRB Approval, initiated by Brad Patterson.
      • May 2013 thread Assessment Data and Permissions, initiated by Vanessa Vacchiano.
      • May 2014 thread Publishing Assessment Results, initiated by Susan Warner.
      • June 2014 thread Request for Raw Student Engagement Survey Data, initiated by Laura Massell.
      • September 2014 thread IRB and Assessment of Student Learning, initiated by Carrie Nepstad.
      • November 2014 thread Survey Question, initiated by Susan Warner.
      • July 2015 thread Coordinating Survey Research with IRB, initiated by Vennessa Walker.
  • Related policy issues
    • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the December 2010 thread Policy Language: Collecting Student Work for Program Assessment, initiated by Melanie Booth.

Assessment Journals

Assessment Journals

Assessment and Learning: State of the Field Review

Assessment and Learning: State of the Field Review

  • About educational assessment in general, K-12 as well as higher ed and in UK, European, & far eastern education systems as well as in the U.S. (the review was written to inform Norwegian policy context).
    • A good source of information about “assessment” terminology & concepts — how terms & concepts developed, how they’re used in various theoretical & educational systems, and confusions that can result from overlapping usages.
    • Most of the theoretical & definitional literature reviewed deals with the theoretical underpinnings of various approaches to assessment and to relationships among assessment, learning, pedagogy, & policy.
    • Most of the research literature reviewed deals either with small-scale action-oriented studies in K-12 situations or with the large-scale OECD international tests; these parts of the review emphasize impacts on learning/pedagogy policy & practice rather than detailed research methods or results.
  • A large pdf file, 174pp including 20 pages of references.

Assessment and Liberal Arts Education: Research on the Outcomes of Liberal Arts Education

Assessment and Liberal Arts Education: Research on the Outcomes of Liberal Arts Education

Assessment Resource Centre

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.
  • Bibliography and links to other resources. Includes resources not usually found in U.S.-based lists.
  • User-contributed assessment-practice examples were not available when last checked.

Assessment Resources

Assessment Resources

Assessment Rubrics

Assessment Rubrics

Association for Educational Assessment – Europe

Association for Educational Assessment – Europe

  • Not limited to higher education.
  • Professional development includes a framework for Standards for Assessment (pdf file).

Association for Institutional Research

Association for Institutional Research

Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU)

Association of American Colleges & Universities

Automated Essay Scoring

Automated Essay Scoring

Baldridge National Quality Program: Education Criteria

Baldridge National Quality Program: Education Criteria

  • See the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Quality Program site for more information about the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (Mexico)

Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior (Mexico)

  • Ceneval develops and administers performance exams for college entrance and assessment and for licensing/certification programs.
  • The website includes information about Ceneval’s exams and administration sites. Students can register and view their own results online.
  • Note: Ceneval’s website is in Spanish. Thanks to Phil Schmidt from Western Governors University for translation assistance.

College Portrait

College Portrait, see Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA)

Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA, CLA+)

Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA, CLA+)

  • Standardized assessment of general education skills & abilities.
  • Reports emphasize institutional value-added.
  • From the Council for Aid to Education (CAE).
  • CLA+ replaces the CLA and CCLA (Community College Learning Assessment). See supporting materials for a comparison of the old & new versions (pdf file).
  • Catalyst for Change, from the Council of Independent Colleges CLA Consortium, reports CIC members’ experience with the CLA.
  • Information from and about a multi-institution CLA-based longitudinal study of undergraduate learning are available from the Social Science Research Council. The study was the basis for Richard Arum & Josipa Roska’s book Academically Adrift.

Commission on the Future of Higher Education

Commission on the Future of Higher Education 

  • The Commission met during 2005-2006, charged by the U.S. Secretary of Education to develop a national strategy for postsecondary education.
  • Some parts of the final report and some of the issue papers deal with assessment, accountability, and accreditation (pdf files).

Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)

Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)

  • Proposed data definitions for (voluntary) intersystem sharing.
  • A project of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). See About CEDS.
  • Select Elements, then Version 3 or Version 4 (Draft). In search, set the domain filter to postsecondary and the change status filter to all.

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)

  • Nationally-normed survey of students’ exposure to good practices in undergraduate education.
  • Information about the project and the survey.
  • About the survey has pdf demonstration versions of the survey.
  • National results summaries.
  • CCSSE is designed for two-year institutions. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a similar project for four-year institutions.
  • Some institutions’ assessment sites include CCSSE reports.

Conferences, Institutes, and Workshops

Conferences: Lists of National, Regional, and International Assessment Conferences, Institutes, and Workshops

Context for Success: Measuring Colleges’ Impact

Context for Success: Measuring Colleges’ Impact

  • Reviews of methods and findings on input-adjusted measurement of college/university effectiveness. Papers and briefs are pdf files.
  • For an overview of the project, and summaries of the reports, select Papers, then Synopsis Paper.
  • Most of the reports focus on enrollment, persistence, graduation, & employment measures. Using student learning as a measure of quality in higher education discusses standardized instruments (CAAP, MAPP, CLA, NSSE).
  • From HCM Strategists, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education

Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education

  • Information about standards, guidelines, and assessment guides for Student Affairs programs and for graduate & professional programs. The CAS guides/standards can be purchased as books, CDs, or downloadable pdf and RTF files (see the CAS Store).

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

  • Overview of the Comprehensive Assessment Project.

Course-Based Assessment

Course-Based Assessment

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
    • September-October 2013 thread Challenges with Course-Embedded Assessment, initiated by Mary Kay Fleming.
    • January 2014 thread Assessment Thresholds and Course Thresholds for Student Performance, initiated by  Peggy Schmidt.
    • May 2016 thread Reporting Course Evaluation Results, initiated by Regina Warfel
  • Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS)
    • Online version of the Teaching Goals Inventory, from the University of Iowa.
      • See Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo & Cross, 1988, 1993, Jossey-Bass) for details on the TGI. The online version was created with the authors’ permission.
  • TooFAST, the current version of the Free Assessment Summary Tool  from Bruce Ravelli at Mt. Royal College.
    • Web survey for student feedback, for classroom assessment during the course of a term.
    • Fully anonymous, no way to tell who has submitted an evaluation, or how often. Not intended as an end-of-term course evaluation whose data become part of the salary, promotion, and tenure process.

Educational Benchmarking, Inc. (EBI)

EBI: Educational Benchmarking, Inc

  • Surveys for assessment in a variety of academic and student services areas. Analyses include comparisons with other participating institutions.
  • When last checked:
    • Academic areas included business/management, engineering, nursing, and teacher education.
    • Student-services areas included diversity, the first-year experience, fraternities/sororities, student housing, and student unions/centers.

Education Commission of the States (ECS)

Education Commission of the States (ECS)

  • This page has abstracts of publications and information about ECS projects in higher education and K-12 assessment, accountability, workplace preparation, and other topics. For publications, select assessment from the list of topics on the reports & databases page.

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

  • Information about ETS assessment instruments.
  • Test Link lets you search ETS’s test collection for information about thousands of test and research instruments.

Enrollment, Completion, & Earnings Data

Enrollment, Completion, & Earnings Data

  • Enrollment & Completion
    • 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).
    • College Completion
      • Interactive charts & tables of completion rates by sector, state, demographics, & institution characteristics, and for individual institutions.
      • Find a state (or start with the overview & click on a state) & compare with other states’ data.
      • Find a college & compare with other institutions’ data.
      • Data are downloadable as Excel-compatible files. For data sources & definitions, select About this project, then scroll down to About the data.
      • From the Chronicle of Higher Education with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
    • College Results Online
      • Searchable database of graduation rates for four-year colleges and universities. From the Education Trust; based on NCES data.
      • 4, 5, and 6-year rates, plus trends over time and freshman-to-sophomore retention, outbound transfer rates, and gender/ethnicity breakdowns.
      • User-selected group of institutions or individual institution + database-generated comparison group based on institutional characteristics.
    • Complete College America
      • Analyses of completion rates, time to degree, etc. from data provided by 32 participating states plus the District of Columbia.
      • State data: Interactive map of state summaries, with links to (pdf files) detailed reports.
        • The Time is the Enemy report has background, methodology, results, & policy implications (pdf files).
      • Links to related resources.
    • Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
    • Department of Education/White House College Scorecard posted September 2015.
    • Gates Foundation report on higher education performance measures focus’ on the areas of attendance, persistence and graduation, and post-graduation employment and earnings; learning outcomes “still to be developed”.
    • Lumina Issue Paper: It’s Not Just the Money: The Benefits of College Education to Individuals and to Society.  Mentioned in Teri Lyn Hinds 1-20-16 ASSESS post “Re: [ASSESS:] Inside Higher Ed Article – Psych!”
    • National Student Clearinghouse
      • Chronicle of Higher Education interactive state-by-state breakdown of UG 6-yr graduation rates, from National Student Clearinghouse data.  Unlike IPEDS, NSC data includes both graduated from starting institution and graduated elsewhere: State Graduation Rates.  You will need to be a Chronicle of Higher Ed subscriber to access the report
      • Uses participating institutions’ enrollment data. Services include enrollment verification, Federal enrollment reports, and tracking students’ enrollment across institutions regardless of state and college/university-system boundaries.
      • More than 3,500 institutions participate, ranging from community colleges to Ivy League doctoral/research-extensive universities.
      • The May/June 2009 issue of Assessment Update includes an article on using NSC data as a proxy for a “national enrollment database.”
      • NSC research reports are available to the public (pdf files, see About the Clearinghouse).
        • Starting with the 6th Signature Report (December 2013) includes “nontraditional” persistence/completion rates (part-time enrollment and enrollment at multiple institutions). This InsideHigherEd article has an overview. The state-by-state supplement to the 8th Signature Report was released in February 2015; Chronicle of Higher Education’s interactive table summarizes its data (the online Chronicle article is restricted to subscribers; most college/university libraries subscribe).
      • Signature Report 9 – Transfer & Mobility: A National View of Student Movement in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2008 Cohort.
    • The Voluntary Institutional Metrics Project
      • A work in progress, designing measures & dashboard displays for institutional effectiveness.
      • Progress reports and sample dashboard displays are pdf files. Measures developed so far focus on educational cost and on student progress, completion, & employment. Learning outcomes measures are still to come.
      • Current participants are primarily community colleges and/or institutions emphasizing distance education.
      • From HCM Strategists, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
    • VSA College Portraits include the institution’s enrollment and completion data.
  • Employment & Earnings
    • The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES).
      • Employment and further education, four years after graduation. The most recent reports are based on surveys of the 2008 graduating cohort.
      • Reports & methodology descriptions (pdf files) and some data files are available to the public.
    • Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
      • A report on community college’s impact on employment and earnings. The report includes data on dropouts, while other reports focus on completers; it’s one state’s data and not a nationwide analysis (it uses 2002-2005 transcript data from North Carolina CC system and the NC unemployment office).
    • Department of Education (DOE) Scorecard
      • The Economist’s rankings of college value (defined as the difference between how much its graduates earn and how much they might have earned if they had studied elsewhere).
      • The Economist 10/31/2015 article includes a summary of results.
      • Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, Center on Education and the Workforce-Rankings adjusted for major and student participation/graduate training.
        • There is a link to the full report which as three tables for median earnings 10 years after graduation; rankings for deviation from expected based on composition of majors in the institution’s undergraduate population; rankings for major adjusted deviation from expected further adjusted for median ACT and likelihood that student would go on to graduate/professional training.
      • Chronicle of Higher Education interview with GU’s center director.
    • Economic Success Metrics, from CollegeMeasures.org, a joint project of the American Institutes for Research and the Matrix Knowledge Group.
      • First-year salaries of graduates from public colleges/universities employed in that state, by institution & program. (See the data limitations and caveats.)
      • Results from Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia are available. CollegeMeasures is working on similar projects with other states.
        • Summaries of the Arkansas and Tennessee results, and a link to Florida’s Beyond Education data site are on the ESM site. AIR has a summary and analysis of Virginia’s results.
    • Florida Education & Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP)
      • First-year quarterly earnings for Florida community college and public university graduates employed in Florida (pdf files).
    • Launch My Career Colorado shows potential earnings (starting, later-career, and median) and job availability by job and career category as well as by institution.
    • National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) First-Destination Survey.   The survey captures information regarding how new college graduates fare in their careers within six months of graduation. Contact ekoc@naceweb.org. The executive summary is available now (pdf).  Review of the survey findings is detailed in Ellen Wexler’s June 2016 Inside Higher Ed article, “Class of 2015 Is Finding Work.”
    • National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey regarding post-college outcomes.  The NACE survey is reviewed by Jacqueline Thomsen in the June 5, 2015 article in InsideHigherEd.  The article has since been archived.
    • Salary Surfer, from the California Community Colleges Chancellor⬔s Office.
      • Earnings of CCC-system graduates employed in California, two years before, two years after, & five years after earning a community college certificate or degree.
      • By program, for the CCC system as a whole rather than for individual colleges.
      • Documentation about measures & methodology.
    • Seek UT (University of Texas system)
      • First- & fifth-year earnings & student debt of UT-system graduates employed full-time in Texas or by the U.S. government, by major area & UT institution.
      • The seekUT tool loads slowly; be patient.
    • State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Mid-Career Wages Reports
      • Median and mid-range wages up to 20 years after graduation (depending on graduation year) by degree level and discipline category.
      • The summary for 1992-93 graduates is a pdf file; the other reports are html pages.
  • The Economic Benefit of Postsecondary Degrees (pdf files).
    • From the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).
  • Facilitating Development of a Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange
  • Issues in Using Enrollment, Completion, & Earnings Data
  • First Destination Survey Standards & Protocols, from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (pdf & Excel files).
    • For colleges & universities to use in collecting & reporting graduating student career outcomes.

Establishing Degree Qualifications

Establishing Degree Qualifications

Establishing Degree Qualifications

Ethical Standards for Assessment

Ethical Standards for Assessment

(Some of these are from a January 2002 Assess-L discussion. Thanks to Suzanne Garrison at Meredith College for initiating this thread.)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

  • Searchable database with:
    • Bibliographic information for hundreds of articles on assessment, evaluation, statistics, and educational research.
    • Downloadable full text (pdf files) of many non-journal articles.
  • A project of the US Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.
  • See:
    • General search tips.
    • The Thesaurus of search terms.
    • FAQs about the ERIC program.
  • Includes material that was added while the database was closed during 2004.

Faculty Attitudes Towards Outcomes Assessment

Faculty Attitudes Towards Outcomes Assessment

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the
    • March 2005 thread Faculty Attitudes Toward Student Learning Outcomes Assessment, initiated by Reuel Barksdale.
    • April 2012 thread Searching for Survey of Faculty Knowledge of Assessment Basics and/or Faculty Attitudes Towards Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes, initiated by Allen Butt.
    • March 2013 thread Chronicle Point of View Piece, initiated by Zaneeta Daver. 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.
    • August 2015 thread Chronicle Article-Does Assessment Make Colleges Better? Who Knows?, initiated by Catherine Wehlburg. The online version of the 8/14/15 Chronicle of Higher Education commentary where Erik Gilbert was curious about college’s assessment programs. The online version of the article is available to Chronicle subscribers and through most college/university libraries.
    • October 2015 thread Overcoming Faculty Resistance to Sharing Results, initiated by Marylee Demeter.
  • Developing/fostering positive attitudes and a “culture of assessment”
  • Faculty unions’ statements on outcomes assessment
  • Frequently-encountered objections to outcomes assessment
    • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the discussion Logical Fallacies and Assessment, initiated by Stephen Zerwas.
      • April 2009, Logical Fallacies and Assessment – Straw Dog/Straw Man and the associated threads Assessment and Philosophical Issues (initiated by Steve RiCharde) and Logical Fallacies and Assessment – “red herrings” arguments (initiated by Stephen Zerwas). Posts include philosophical/theoretical discussion, examples of fallacious arguments, and suggestions for dealing with fallacious arguments.
      • August 2009, Logical Fallacies – Kill the Messenger and Kill the Messenger ?? Ad Hominum? Continued, initiated by Stephen Zerwas.
      • November 2015 thread Outcomes vs Outcomes, initiated by JaneMarie Souza.
  • “Our assessment says we’re doing just fine!”

Focus Groups: Methods & Tools

Focus Groups: Methods & Tools

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
    • April 2010 thread Transcription Services, initiated by Cindy Shedd.
    • February 2012 thread Virtual Focus Groups and Blogs, initiated by Lea Campbell.
    • March 2013 thread Focus Group Resources, initiated by Elizabeth Carney.
    • July 2014 thread Transcription Software, initiated by Susan Warner.

Glossaries: Assessment Terms

Grades as Outcomes Assessment

Grades as Outcomes Assessment

Graduate Program Assessment

Graduate Program Assessment

Graduate Training in Outcomes Assessment

Graduate Training in Outcomes Assessment

Higher Education Resource Hub

Higher Education Resource Hub

  • For assessment resources, select Higher Education Assessment.

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)

  • A project of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA.
  • CIRP Surveys: Information about nationally-standardized student surveys.
    • CIRP Freshman Survey: profile of entering freshman class.
    • CSS College Senior Survey: follow-up of CIRP cohorts.
    • YFCY Your First College Year

Impact of Assessment

Impact of Assessment

  • A bibliography of articles about program assessment that include results, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (pdf file).
    • From Monica Stitt-Bergh’s original July 2013 ASSESS post program assessment articles: sharing and a request: “[Published articles or conference papers with] examples of degree program assessment involving direct assessment of student learning…, preferably peer-reviewed, that include some direct assessment of an academic degree program, include at least one assessment result, and are not only a ‘how-to’ or not just ‘what-we-plan-to-do.’ Completed assessments are what I⬔d like to find.”
    • Some of the articles include descriptions of how assessment results informed program planning.
  • Engineering Change: ABET study of how EC2000 standards and assessment requirements affect Engineering programs and students (executive summary available as pdf file, full report purchasable).
  • ASSESS discussion-list threads on this topic (see the list archive):
    • October 2006 thread Resources on Impact of Assessment on Learning and Teaching, initiated by Sean McKitrick of Binghampton University.
    • August 2007 threads Outcomes to the Assessment Process? initiated by Ken Weiner at Montgomery College, and Assessment in Higher Education, contributed by Richard Hake.
    • April 2008 threads Evidence of Impact of Student Learning Assessment? and Evidence of Impact of Student Learning Assessment, initiated by Lois Myers.
    • September 2009 threads Assessment, Budgeting, & Strategic Planning and [Spam] Re: [ASSESS:] Assessment, Budgeting, & Strategic Planning, initiated by Erin Frew.
    • November 2009 thread 404: Learning Outcomes, initiated by David Eubanks, and David’s blog entry on the topic.
    • March 2010 thread Evidence-Based Studies of Learning Goals, initiated by Mindy McWilliams.

Institutional Support for Outcomes Assessment

Institutional Support for Outcomes Assessment

International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA)

International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA)

  • Not limited to higher education.

K-12 Standards and College-Level Work

K-12 Standards and College-Level Work

  • The Common Core State Standards
    • A project of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), in partnership with the American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU).
    • Objectives include:
      • Aligning K-12 standards with college admission & placement requirements.
      • Preparing K-12 teachers to help students meet the standards.

Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

League for Innovation in the Community College

League for Innovation in the Community College: 21st Century Learning Outcomes Project

  • Information about a multi-institution project to define and document student learning outcomes.
  • Links to participating institutions’ project websites and to other resources. The project is no longer active, but some of the institutions’ websites are still available.

National Assessment Governing Board

National Assessment Governing Board

  • Information about the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These are assessments of students in grades 4, 8, and 12, not college students. Relevant to assessment in higher education as illustration of a current national model for assessing student learning.
  • The NAEP site has details about and reports from assessments in various subject areas.
  • The U.S. also participates in multinational comparisons of K-12 students’ performance in various areas, sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Recent & upcoming study areas include reading literacy, computer & information literacy, knowledge of math & science, and civic & citizenship education.
  • The Learning Curve, from Pearson and The Economist Intelligence Unit, analyzes a range of internationally-comparable K-12-level data.

National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)

National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)

  • Links to articles and other assessment resources.

The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)

The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) site has information about publications and services for assessment and other higher-education areas.

  • Assessing Assessment: Successes, Failures, and the Future overviews the state of higher education outcomes assessment (this pdf file will open in a separate window). Presentation by Peter Ewell, NCHEMS vice-president, at the 2007 IUPUI Assessment Institute. Ewell’s chapter An emerging scholarship: A brief history of assessment has details and references (in Banta, T.W. & Assoc. [2002], Building a scholarship of assessment. Jossey-Bass).
  • NCHEMS’ Information Center provides state-by-state comparisons of data related to higher-education issues. Some are outcomes assessment data, most are not.

The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)

The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)

  • UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has papers, technical reports, and links to related sites. Some higher education material; mostly K-12.

National Community College Benchmark Project

National Community College Benchmark Project

  • Participating institutions can compare outcomes results with those of other participants. The data are not available to non-participants.
  • The site includes:
    • A description of the project and the benchmarks used. Some of the benchmarks are outcomes assessment results, some are other institutional research data.
    • A description of the reports prepared for participating institutions.
    • A list of participating institutions and information about enrolling in the project.

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

  • NILOA’s Excellence in Assessment Designation
  • NILOA focuses on identifying & promoting effective assessment practices.
  • NILOA Resources include:
    • Viewpoints:Short articles from assessment experts.
    • Reports from surveys of college/university outcomes assessment practices.
    • Assessment briefs: Introductions for faculty, student affairs staff, etc.
    • Occasional papers by assessment experts.
    • A transparency framework for institutions’ assessment websites and online presentation of assessment information.
      • The framework in the field section of the Transparency Framework page and the regularly-changing featured website available from the home page illustrate good “transparency” practice.
    • A link to the Measuring Quality inventory of assessment instruments.
  • Information about the Degree Qualifications Profile.
  • The searchable Resource Library includes links & bibliographies on a variety of assessment topics.
  • NILOA Occasional Paper: To Imagine a Verb: The Language and Syntax of Learning Outcomes Statements.
    • From the February NILOA Newsletter.

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC)

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC)

  • A project of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
  • NPEC student outcomes projects focus on assessment policy, methods, coordination, and/or data use. pdf files of papers from some projects are available.
  • Definitions and assessment methods sourcebooks, for various general education areas.

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

Nationally Standardized Instruments

Nationally Standardized Instruments

New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability

New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability

  • The Alliance’s activities were suspended in summer 2013.
  • The documents Committing to Quality: Guidelines for Assessment and Accountability and Assuring Quality: An Institutional Self-Assessment Tool for Excellent Practice in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment are available from CHEA (pdf files).

Online Discussion

Online Discussion

  • Blogs about assessment
  • Discussion lists
    • Subscribing to email discussion lists
      • Send an email message to the list server for the list to which you want to subscribe. The message should say subscribe list-name your-first-name your-last-name (e.g.: subscribe assess John Smith) and have nothing in the Subject: line and no “signature” at the bottom.
      • After you’ve subscribed, send the one-word message help to get a list of commands you can use to suspend mail while you’re on vacation, unsubscribe from the list, etc.
    • ASSESS
      • From AALHE.
      • Topic: assessment in higher education.
      • Listserver: listserv@lsv.uky.edu (University of Kentucky).
      • The searchable archive also has online forms that you can use to join and post to the list.
    • EVALTALK
      • Topic: Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness. Many threads relevant to outcomes assessment.
      • From the American Evaluation Association.
      • Lots of traffic. To avoid clogging your inbox, have your email program automatically put Evaltalk messages into a separate folder/mailbox.
      • The searchable archive (hosted at the University of Alabama) has an online form you can use to join and post to the list. Note: The UA listserver will ask for a login; registration is available to the general public and is free.
    • ASSESS-W
      • Topic: assessing writing.
      • Listserver: listserv@listserv.louisville.edu (University of Louisville).
        • The Higher Education Resource Hub’s list of assessment resources has information about other assessment-related lists (select Higher Education Assessment from the menu at the left side of the Hub’s home page and scroll down to Assessment Electronic Discussion Lists).
        • NILOA’s Resources include some assessment discussion lists.

Portfolio Assessment

Portfolio Assessment

  • An extensive list of links to information about alternative assessment and electronic portfolios, from Helen Barrett at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. (Last updated in 2009. Some links are still good, some aren’t.)
  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the
    • April 2014 thread Best Resources RE: Pros/Cons of Large Scale Eportfolio Implementation, initiated by Kathleen Morley.
    • March 2016 thread ePortfolios, initiated by Beth-Ann Tek.
  • AAEEBL (The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning)
    • Links to e-portfolio resources.
    • Information about AAEEBL’s annual conference and other networking opportunities.
  • Diagnostic Digital Portfolio at Alverno College. Access to the DDP is restricted to Alverno students, faculty, & staff.
  • Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research: Campus-based research projects on whether & how the use of portfolios affects student learning.
  • International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) includes articles about using e-portfolios in assessment. Articles are available as pdf files.
  • Portfolio tips, guidelines, & examples from the University of Kentucky.
  • University of Minnesota’s ePortfolio. Development of the University of Minnesota’s ePortfolio system is described in the 2003 Educause article Electronic Portfolios Need Standards to Thrive (pdf file).
  • Truman State University portfolio project: FAQ, portfolio prompts with descriptors (rubrics, pdf files) for evaluation, and (pdf files) assessment results.
  • University of Minnesota Duluth ePortfolio. See the Getting Started tutorial and the User’s Guide (pdf files), and the link to download the open-source program.
  • Commercial products to manage on-line portfolios (this is just a list; it’s not exhaustive and inclusion doesn’t imply a recommendation or evaluation)
    • See A Survey of the Electronic Portfolio Market Sector by Trent Batson of AAEEBL.
    • Chalk & Wire’s e-Portfolio.
    • Digication’s Assessment Management System includes portfolio tools.
    • DigitalAssess Gain deeper insight by radically improving your understanding of learner’s knowledge with innovative assessment.
    • ePortfolio, from Epsilen.
    • iWebfolio, from Nuventive.
    • Mentor, from Axiom Education, includes a portfolio tool.
    • The PASS-PORT assessment-management system includes a portfolio tool.
    • RXOutcome assessment e-portfolio, for pharmacy programs.
    • Serensoft provides e-portfolio services.
    • TaskStream’s student assessment tools include e-portfolio assessment & management.
    • TK20’s CampusTools HigherEd and CampusWide have portfolio tools as part of a system to gather and organize assessment information. See Products.
    • See Helen Barrett’s list of commercial e-portfolio vendors (a 2009 list, some links will be out of date).
    • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, select May 2005 and scroll down to Electronic Portfolio Software and Assessment, Renee Corbin’s list of e-portfolio products. Open the message and then click [text/html] at the bottom of the page for a version with “live” (clickable) links.

Principles of Good Outcomes Assessment Practice

Principles of Good Outcomes Assessment Practice 

Program Review and Outcomes Assessment

Program Review and Outcomes Assessment

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see:
    • The May & July 2009 thread Combining Program Review and Assessment, initiated by Erin Frew.
    • The September 2010 thread Program Reviews – Are They Worth It? initiated by Catherine Wehlburg.
    • The October 2011 thread Program Review Cycles, initiated by Leah Adams-Curtis.

Qualitative Data Analysis Methods and Tools

Qualitative Data Analysis Methods and Tools

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
    • September 2007 thread Qualitative Data Analysis Question, initiated by Mitzi Lewis. In October 2007, scroll down to the thread Qualitative Data Analysis Question – Summary, for Mitzi’s summary of responses and some more discussion.
    • February 2010 thread Qualitative Software Reviews? initiated by Christopher Vinger.
    • September 2010 thread Question Regarding Qualitative Analysis, initiated by John Painter.
    • May 2012 thread Text Analysis Tools, initiated by Gavin Henning, the associated thread Text Analysis Tools, initiated by Lenny Shedletsky, and Gavin’s follow-up List of Text Analysis Tools.
    • July 2013 thread Seeking Recommendations on Qualitative Data Analysis Software, initiated by Jill Hirt.
  • Content-analysis.de’s annotated links to qualitative analysis software packages and other information about content-analysis methods.
  • See Crafton Hills College’s overview of Sampling for the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (pdf file).
  • NILOA Occasional Paper – Improving teaching, learning, and assessment by making evidence of achievement transparent.  From NILOA May newsletter.
    • The paper discusses concepts of validity, external credibility, and “authentic assessment.”

Quantitative Data Analysis Methods and Tools

Quantitative Data Analysis Methods and Tools

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see:
    • The February 2010 thread Inter-rater Reliability, initiated by Erica Cavanaugh. It developed into extended discussions of (a) statistical methods for evaluating inter-rater reliability and (b) the pros & cons of statistical precision in higher education outcomes assessment.
    • The related March 2010 thread Centering and Rasch Analysis, initiated by David Eubanks, which deals with several issues about using rubrics & analyzing rating-scale results.
    • The November 2010 thread Stats Packages Excel Add-ons, initiated by Kenneth Reaves.
    • The November & December 2010 thread Building Faculty Inter-rater Reliability of Graduate School Candidate Admissions Ratings, initiated by Barbara Shepperson. It developed into a discussion of inter-rater reliability methods & issues. See Jeremy Penn’s November 30 post for a Powerpoint presentation overviewing methods for evaluating inter-rater reliability.
    • The July 2011 thread Inter-rater Reliability, initiated by Daniel Mccollum.
    • The August 2011 thread Unequal Sample Size when Comparing Two Groups, initiated by Wenjun Chi. It developed into a comparison of parametric & nonparametric significance tests and a discussion of significance testing in general.
    • The November 2012 thread Logistical Questions Re: Institution-wide Assessment of Gen Ed Outcomes, initiated by Laura Henderson, which deals with several issues about analyzing rating-scale results & using rubrics.
    • July 2013 thread Course Evaluation Inter-rater Reliability, initiated by David Eubanks. The thread includes some general discussion of course evaluation questionnaires.
    • November 2014 thread Item Response Theory Software, initiated by M. Brooke Robertshaw.
    • March 2015 thread Significance Tests in Assessment (Are they even appropriate?), initiated by Kimberly Faith
    • March 2015 thread Case Study Assessment initiated by Karal Sanders.
    • April 2015 thread Assessing Common Reading Programs initiated by Karla Sanders.
    • April 2015 thread Evaluation/Assessment Plan initiated by Tracey Snyder
    • April 2015 thread Student Group Assessment Plan initiated by Alicia Betsinger.
    • April 2015 thread Assessment for Readiness for Online Courses and Computer Literacy initiated by Gave Estil.
    • April 2015 thread Assessment Day? initiated by Cathy Sanders.
    • April 2015 thread Transition to On-Line Course Surveys initiated by Annalisa Gramlich.
    • April 2015 thread Significance Tests in Assessment initiated by Kimberly Faith.
      • This thread includes discussion of whether statistical significance testing is appropriate for course and program level assessment at all.
    • May 2015 thread Theories or Models for Assessment  initiated by Michael Zuch.
    • May 2015 thread Help with Research initiated by Keri Turner.
    • October 2015 thread Survey Factors: Continuous or Categorical Variables and Implications on Sig Testing?, initiated by Beth Tek.
    • October 2015 thread Ordinal vs Ration/Interval, initiated by Mark Riddle.
    • February 2016 thread Analyzing large quantities of open-ended survey data, initiated by Beth-Ann Tek.
  • Context for Success papers discuss statistical & methodological issues in using enrollment, persistence, graduation rates, and employment data as measures of institution quality or effectiveness.
  • “Dashboard” display of assessment & accountability data
  • See Crafton Hills College’s overview of Sampling for the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (pdf file).
  • NILOA Occasional Paper -“Improving teaching, learning, and assessment by making evidence of achievement transparent.”
    • From NILOA May Newsletter.
    • The occasional paper discusses concepts of validity, external credibility, and “authentic achievement.”
  • Setting performance targets / standards / expectations

Software for Web Surveys

Software for Web Surveys

  • Association for Survey Computing: Register of Software for Statistical and Social Survey Analysis
    • Well-annotated, easy to use listings from a regularly-updated database. Not limited to products for Web-based surveying. Start with the list of features, then go to “Data Capture” and then to “Web Interviewing.” (Note: The Register has not been updated since 2006 but many of its entries are still useful.You can download the 2006 version from ASC’s website [pdf file]. See the list of web interviewing packages on p. 7; then get individual software vendors’ website addresses from the list that starts on p. 30.)
      • Adaptex Assessment System, from James Madison University.
      • AskAnywhere, from Senecio.
      • Asset (Academic Survey System and Evaluation Tool), from the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Seton Hall University.
      • Blue/Surveys, from Explorance.
      • Checkbox from Prezza Technologies has software for your own campus’ servers as well as a hosted version.
      • EvalTools from Makteam Software.
      • EvaluationKIT.
      • LimeSurvey open-source survey application.
      • Qualtrics. Scroll down to the survey research suite for details.
      • PollCat. Free survey-creation, hosting, and summary reports for small surveys. There are fees for larger surveys, custom surveys, and detailed data.
      • SelectSurvey.NET, from ClassApps.
      • SmartEvals.
      • SurveyConnect.
      • SurveyDIG.
      • SurveyMaker, from Griffith University. These software and survey hosting services were not in the Register when last checked. (Some of these are from ASSESS posts by Renee Corbin at Western Carolina University and Lib Pruden at Union Institute.) This is just a list. It’s not exhaustive, it doesn’t include items in ASC’s Register or ACPA’s list, and it doesn’t imply a recommendation or evaluation.
      • SurveyTracker Plus Email/Web from Scantron handles online surveys as well as scannable forms.
      • TK20’s CampusTools HigherEd and CampusWide have survey tools as part of a system to gather and organize assessment information.
      • Business-oriented survey tools.such as those from Mindshare Technologies may also be appropriate for educational institutions.
  • Some threads in the ASSESS discussion-list archive have users’ comments about web survey software or hosting services, or about using online surveys. See the:
    • December 2004 thread Question Web Survey Software, initiated by Ted Micceri.
    • October 2005 threads Online Survey Comparison Matrix and Online Survey hosts, which include Gavin Henning’s Excel file of information and user comments (thanks for compiling this, Gavin!).
    • July 2007 threads Electronic Survey and Thanks, initiated by Elizabeth Pruden.
    • August 2007 threads Consultant for Online Survey and Consultant for Online Survey: Listserv Feedback Compiled, initiated by Brian Bogert.
    • April 2011 threads Survey Software that Allows You to Store Your Own Data, initiated by Pat Williams, and Survey Software, initiated by Lea Campbell.
    • May 2011 thread Online Survey Policies, initiated by Kim Black.
    • October 2011 post, Survey Policies & Guidelines, from Betty Harper. The attached Word document has links to & information about college/universities’ policies for large (web or non-web) surveys.
    • September 2014 thread Alternatives to SurveyMonkey, initiated by Denise Bell.
    • May 2016 thread Survey Software, initiated by Nicole Tomasello.
  • Some online articles about Web-based surveying
  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the:
    • September 2010 threads Quick Poll: Typical Responses Rates to Web-based Surveys, initiated by Gavin Henning, and Achieving High Online Survey Rates of Completion, initiated by Timothy Metz.
    • February 2011 thread Just Sharing Something Fun… initiated by Zaneeta Davers, a discussion of getting students to take online surveys.
      • October 2012 thread Incentives for Student Participation in NSSE, initiated by Pat Williams. (Not limited to online surveys or to NSSE, this thread is a general discussion of using incentives to improve completion rates.)

SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers

SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers

State-by-State Reports on Accreditation, Assessment, and Higher Education

State-by-State Reports on Accreditation, Assessment, and Higher Education

    • Measuring Up “report card”
      • From the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Scoring categories include preparation for and participation in higher education, affordability, completion, benefits, and student learning. All states received “grades” of Incomplete for student learning; current data did not allow meaningful state-by-state comparisons.
      • Executive summary (pdf file) plus individual state reports.
      • Reported biannually from 2000 through 2008.
    • NILOA report: Connecting State Policies on Assessment with Institutional Assessment Activity.
    • Ready to Assemble: About states’ higher education accountability systems
      • 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.
      • From Education Sector.

State and Regional Assessment Organizations

State and Regional Assessment Organizations

  • Arkansas Association for the Assessment of Collegiate Learning (AAACL)
    • About AAACL.
    • Links to member institutions’ home pages.
    • Listserv.
    • Information about & from AAACL assessment workshops (presentations are mht files which require Internet Explorer; the registration form for the latest workshop is an Excel file).
    • Resources
      • Newsletter (pdf file).
      • Previous Conference (AAACL workshop) presentations
        • Spring 2008 (presentations are mht files which require Internet Explorer; the participant list is an Excel file).
        • Spring 2009 (Powerpoint & pdf files, Word documents).
  • Assessment Network of New York (ANNY)
    • About ANNY and network membership.
    • Materials from ANNY conferences & events (pdf & Powerpoint files).
    • Member resources, including a newsletter and links to other assessment resources, are restricted to ANNY members.
  • California Community Colleges Student Learning Outcome Coordinators
    • A community in the CCC Research & Planning Group.
    • Listserv for CCC SLO coordinators.
    • POWER awards for achievements in outcomes assessment and research in learner-centered teaching.
    • Links to other assessment resources (pdf files, Word documents).
  • Chicago Area Assessment Group (CAAG)
    • About CAAG.
    • Contact information and upcoming meetings.
  • Missouri Assessment Consortium
    • Information about MAC.
    • Guiding principles and assessment handbook.
    • Links to Missouri institutions’ assessment websites.
  • New England Educational Assessment Network
  • New Mexico Higher Education Assessment Association
    • Information about NMHEAA and statewide assessment conferences.
  • Virginia Assessment Group
    • About VAG.
    • Conferences, workshops, and session handouts (pdf, Powerpoint, and Word files).
    • Assessment-related employment notices from Virginia colleges & universities.
    • Online journal, Research & Practice in Assessment (RPA).
    • Links to other assessment resources. The list on the left has materials from VAG conferences & workshops (pdf, Powerpoint, and Word files).
  • Washington Area Student Learning Assessment Network (WASLAN)
    • About WASLAN, and contact information.
    • WASLAN member institutions.

Student Motivation for Assessment

Student Motivation for Assessment

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2014 threads Capstone Requirements and Motivation for Assessment (was Capstone Requirements), initiated by Catherine Wehlburg.
  • The Student Opinion Scale (pdf files)
    • Self-report scale of test-takers’ motivation, to help inform the interpretation of assessment results.
    • From James Madison University’s Center for Assessment & Research Studies (CARS).

The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report

The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report (pdf files)

Tools to Help Organize Assessment Information

  • Tools to Help Organize Assessment Information
      • ASSESS discussion-list threads on users’ experience with assessment management software (see the list archive)
        • February 2006 thread Assessment Tracking Systems, initiated by David Kale.
        • August 2006 thread Assessment Reporting Software, initiated by Margie Hobbs. Margie’s summary in the associated thread Assessment Management Software, includes a Word document with information from a number of vendors (thanks, Margie).
        • July 2008 thread Assessment Management Systems, initiated by Janine Vienna. Steve RiCharde’s July 11 posts include a draft chapter on things to consider when selecting assessment management software (Word document) and a partial list of vendors (Excel file) — thanks, Steve.
        • February 2012 thread Assessment Data Management System, initiated by Teresa Rothrock.
        • August 2012 thread Question about Assessment Software, initiated by Lisa Woodward.
        • October 2012 thread Assessment Systems, initiated by Michelle Todd, and the associated thread Re: Assessment Systems (Attachment), with an Excel file of information on various vendors’ systems, from Susan DeMatteo (thanks, Susan).
        • April 2013 thread Seeking Assessment Management System (AMS) Feedback, initiated by Susan DeMatteo.
        • April 2013 thread Curriculum Outcomes Mapping Software, initiated by Larry Peterson.
        • April 2013 thread LiveText, initiated by Kim Black, and the associated threads Kim Black – Adopting LiveText, initiated by Steven McDonald and LiveText (for Kim Black), initiated by Denise Moseley.
        • December 2013 thread Software to Store and Analyze Student Learning Outcomes and Progress in Institutional Goals? initiated by Susan Hayes.
        • December 2013 thread Assessment Support Software, initiated by Dan McCollum.
        • June 2014 thread Separate Systems for Strategic Plan Assessment and Institutional Assessment? initiated by Susan Hayes.
        • June 2014 thread Software for Assessment Reporting AND Faculty Activity Reporting? initiated by Donna Vinton.
        • September 2014 thread Assessment Software, initiated by Lisa Cota. Also see the associated thread Lisa Cota Request, initiated by Bobby Matthews.
        • November 2014 thread Feedback Requested on the Assessment Software Weave/Performance Cloud, initiated by Kimberly Gargiulo.
        • April 2016 thread Data roll-up for assessment of PLOs/ILOs, initiated by Anna Martinez.
        • May 2016 thread Assessment Management System, initiated by Karen M. Stokes.
      • This is just a list. It’s not exhaustive and inclusion doesn’t imply a recommendation or evaluation.
      • AEFIS (Academic Evaluation, Feedback and Intervention System) assessment management software. Developed at Drexel University for ABET self-studies, but flexible enough for other course-based assessment processes.
      • AMEE (Assessment Made Easy Everyday), from Midwest Social Science Research Associates (MSSRA).
      • aPlus+, from Cobek, for organizing & summarizing assignment details & grades.
      • Better Assessment organizes & manages faculty assessments of students’ written material.
      • Blackboard’s Learn Platform includes tools for for assessment processes, information, and reports. Integrated with tools for course information, surveys, document and portfolio management, and user-community interaction.
      • CampusLabs
        • Baseline management system for survey & rubric-based assessments.
          • Select Products, then Baseline.
          • This was formerly StudentVoice.
        • Compliance Assist manages assessment data as well as other information for accreditation, planning, and program review reports.
      • CurricUNET’s curriculum management system includes an assessment module.
      • Digication’s Assessment Management System for collecting and managing assessment information includes portfolio, rubric, and reporting tools.
      • eLumen Achievement database for assessment processes, rubrics, results, and reports.
      • ExamSoft’s tools create, administer, & score exams and other assignments, and include rubric-based scoring, student feedback, and reports for course, program, or institutional learning outcomes.
      • FASI-Online assessment documentation system.
      • LiveText Accreditation Management System for collecting data and organizing outcomes, rubrics, results, etc.
      • Maple T.A. from Maplesoft, for creating, presenting, grading, & organizing results from mathematics/science assignments & exams, can also be used for non-math/science courses.
      • Mentor, from Axiom Education.
      • OATS (Online Assessment Tracking System) from Georgia Institute of Technology’s Office of Assessment. OATS is available for download by other institutions.
      • openIGOR: A free Linux-based open-source program to manage information about program outcomes and assessment-related documents. From David Eubanks, now at Eckerd College.
      • PASS-PORT, from Innovative Learning Assessment Technologies. Includes versions specialized for business program, nursing program, and teacher-education program accreditation management.
      • rGrade, from Educational Informatics.
      • RXoutcome, for pharmacy programs, also includes portfolio tools.
      • Strategic Planning Online includes an assessment-management component.
      • TaskStream’s tools to organize, review, & summarize assessment information, and for assignment & e-portfolio assessment.
      • ThinkTank facilitates collaboration and can record and store information from assessment group meetings.
      • TK20’s CampusTools HigherEd and CampusWide include tools for electronic portfolios and online surveys.
      • TracDat tracks assessment processes & information and produces reports. From Nuventive.
      • WEAVEonline tracks assessment processes & information and produces reports.
        • WEAVE Technology’s PerformanceCloud integrates institutional research, institutional effectiveness, outcomes assessment, strategic planning, & accreditation processes.
  • WIDS (Worldwide Instructional Design System) curriculum-design software includes tools to monitor outcomes and associated rubrics and results. Select Products, then Read more….
  • The Programs module of Xitracs’ accreditation compliance tool includes assessment management.

TRIADS: Assessment of Learning Outcomes

TRIADS: Assessment of Learning Outcomes

  • TRIpartate Assessment Delivery System: A joint project of the University of Liverpool, the University of Derby, and the Open University.
  • TRIADS Engine: Authorware for developing online assessments.
  • Sample learning outcomes (for earth science programs).
  • TRIADS activities and implementations.

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA)

Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA)

  • Project to develop VSA-like definitions and reporting templates for community colleges.
  • Project to develop VSA-like definitions and reporting templates for community colleges.
  • See About VFA for the project’s history and information about VFA’s measures (pdf files).
  • A joint project of AACC, ACCT, and the College Board.

Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA)

 Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA)

What Outcomes Assessment Misses

What Outcomes Assessment Misses

  • From the TLT Group, so it focuses on assessment about technology — but the general points apply to any assessment project.

Assessment "Handbooks"

How to develop and implement a campus or departmental assessment process

Assessment of Specific Skills or Content

American Library Association
Selected Outcomes Assessment Resources:
This is the site for the oldest and largest library association in the world. It has information regarding Library and Information Studies programmatic accreditation.

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=alapubawrds&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=156252

Nationally-Standardized Assessments of Undergraduate Majors

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.
      • January 2011 thread Assessment of Higher Order Thinking, initiated by David Eubanks.
      • July 2012 thread Assessing Teamwork, initiated by Larry King.
      • July 2012 thread Finding Artifacts for Assessment for Various Gen. Ed. Outcomes, initiated by William Knight.
      • September 2012 thread Assessing Ethics initiated, by Susan Warner.
      • October 2012 thread Critical Thinking, Analytical Reasoning, & Problem Solving, initiated by Teresa Rothrock.
      • December 2012 thread Assessing Oral Communication, initiated by Susan Warner.
      • December 2012 thread Evaluating Ethics and Diversity in Engineering Classes, initiated by Suzanne Weinstein.
      • February 2013 thread Quantitative Literacy, initiated by Michele Dornisch.
      • April 2013 thread Assessment of Group Work, initiated by Linda Pursley.
      • May 2013 thread Oral Communication – Seeking Methodology, initiated by Carrie Nepstad.
      • September 2013 thread General Education Organized Around Outcomes, initiated by Stephen Jones.
      • September-October 2013 thread Challenges with Course-Embedded Assessment, initiated by Mary Kay Fleming.
      • December 2013 thread Help with Prompt/Task Development for Critical Thinking Rubric, initiated by Barbara Rodriguez.
      • March 2014 thread Course-Embedded Assessment of Quantitative Literacy, initiated by Mary Kay Fleming.
      • July 2014 thread Course-Embedded General Education Assessment, initiated by Kathryne McConnell.
      • July 2014 thread Assessing GE Programs, initiated by Janice Kempster.
      • January 2015 Civic Collaboration and Engagement initiated by Kathleen Gorski.
      • February 2015 Establishing Performance Target Percents initiated by Janice Kempster.
      • February 2015 Colorado Regional Assessment Council initiated by Catherine Trouth (catherine.trouth@ccaurora.edu).
      • March 2015 thread Assessment instruments for Ethical Reasoning, Global Learning and Team Work initiated by Karman Wheeler.
      • March 2015 thread GenEd Assessment initiated by Kenneth Reaves
      • August 2015 thread Writing Assessment Instrument initiated by Justin Horton.
      • August 2015 thread General Education Curriculum initiated by Michelle Rogers.
      • November 2015 thread Assessing Ethical Reasoning, initiated by Mary Kay Fleming.
      • February 2016 thread Looking for instruments/ideas for ethical reasoning initiated by Karla Sanders.
      • April 2016 thread Assessment and Accountability in General Education Query, initiated by Katherine Cermak.
        • Note-Cermak’s 5-3-16 post in this thread summarizes the responses she received.
      • “Assessment and Accountability in General Education Query” (4-28-16, Katherine Cermak). Note: Cermak’s 5-3-16 post in this thread summarizes the responses received.
    • Note: some of the resources listed below mention ETS’s Academic Profile. See ETS’s site for information about the AP’s replacement, the Proficiency Profile (previously called the Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress, or MAPP).
    • Examples of rubrics for general education outcomes.
    • 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.
    • AALE’s standards for accreditation of liberal-arts institutions and programs.
    • CAS learning & developmental outcomes (pdf).
    • Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT), from Tennessee Tech’s Center for Assessment and Improvement of Learning.
    • Critical thinking assignments tool kit, from Salt Lake Community College
    • Assessment resources from the College of Wooster and Florida Atlantic University.
    • Assessment of Gen Ed Science Requirements.
      • 2002 ASSESS discussion-list post from Linda Suskie (then at Towson University).
      • Click [text/html] at the bottom of the page for a word wrapped version.
      • The links are not “live” — you must cut-&-paste them into your browser.
    • Assessment of Writing, published by AIR. Part of AIR’s series on assessment in the disciplines.
      • Also see interdisciplinary studies, below.
    • California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), from Insight Assessment.
    • College BASE (College Basic Academic Subjects Examination), from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Assessment Resource Center.
    • Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) from ACT.
    • Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) and the Community College Learning Assessment (CCLA).
    • Comparing CAAP, CLA, & Proficiency Profile/MAPP: In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February 2009 thread CAAP, MAPP, CLA Comparo? initiated by Erin Frew.
    • Council of Writing Program Administrators
      • Outcomes for first-year writing.
      • Resources include “best practice” examples and a white paper on writing assessment.
    • Diversity
      • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the December 2011 thread Assessing a Culture of Inclusiveness (of Diversity), initiated by Christina Leimer.

Experiential Learning (Outside the Academic Environment)

SmarterMeasure Learning Readiness Indicator

  • Evaluate skills, knowledge, & characteristics associated with success in online learning.
  • Previously known as READI (Readiness for Education at a Distance Indicator).
  • From SmarterServices.

Study Abroad

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2012 thread Assessment in Study Abroad, initiated by William Knight. Online resources mentioned in this thread include:
    • The Forum on Education Abroad’s resources with reviews of research on assessment, a guide to outcomes assessment that is available for purchase (click the publications link), and other assessment resources available to Forum members in the standards toolbox.
    • The Center for Global Education’s searchable annotated bibliographies include references & abstracts of assessment research. (Search for entries with outcomes in their titles.)

Arts/Creative Disciplines

Business/Management

Chemistry

Criminal Justice

Engineering

    • Assessment in Engineering Programs: Evolving Best Practices, published jointly by AIR and ASEE. Part of AIR’s series on assessment in the disciplines.
    • ABET’s Assessment Planning resources.

Health Sciences

History

Interdisciplinary Studies

Languages

  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
    • Under Assessment & PD, select Certified Proficiency Testing Program for information about ACTFL’s programs for testing language competencies.
    • Under Publications, see the Proficiency Guidelines, the Performance Descriptors, and The Keys to Assessing Language Performance for information about ACFTL’s competency standards.
  • Information about the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
    • For comparing language-competency standards across national education systems.
    • From the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Education.

Literature

Medicine

  • The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) MedAPS (Medical Academic Performance Services) initiative includes:
    • An accreditation standards self-evaluation tool (ASSET) and a curriculum inventory which will include outcomes and curriculum maps.

Philosophy

Political Science

  • 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.

Psychology

Sociology

STEM Disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics)

Teacher Education

  • EBI’s surveys for assessing teacher education programs.
  • edTPA, from Stanford University’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
  • ETS’s PRAXIS exams.
  • TEDS-M was an international study of teacher education in mathematics, from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) consortium of universities.

Technology-Assisted Teaching & Learning

  • Technology assessment resources, from NC State University, has annotated links to other resources on assessing the impact of technology on student learning.

Workplace Readiness

 

 

Many of the individual institutions assessment-related pages (below) include discipline-specific assessment plans. Also see the examples by specific disciplines in lists of assessment resources from the College of Wooster, Florida Atlantic University, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Kutztown University, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), St. Cloud State University, Stephen F. Austin State University, the University at Albany, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. (You may need to scroll down on some of these pages to get to the resources by discipline.) Also see the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education’s (UK) benchmark statements of outcomes & competencies in various areas (select assuring standards and quality, then subject guidance).

In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the February-March 2014 thread What Should Students Know?, initiated by Neil Patel.

Nationally-Standardized Assessments of Undergraduate Majors

 

Experiential Learning (Outside the Academic Environment)

SmarterMeasure Learning Readiness Indicator

  • Evaluate skills, knowledge, & characteristics associated with success in online learning.
  • Previously known as READI (Readiness for Education at a Distance Indicator).
  • From SmarterServices.

Study Abroad

  • In the ASSESS discussion-list archive, see the January 2012 thread Assessment in Study Abroad, initiated by William Knight. Online resources mentioned in this thread include:
    • The Forum on Education Abroad’s resources with reviews of research on assessment, a guide to outcomes assessment that is available for purchase (click the publications link), and other assessment resources available to Forum members in the standards toolbox.
    • The Center for Global Education’s searchable annotated bibliographies include references & abstracts of assessment research. (Search for entries with outcomes in their titles.)

Religious Education

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.
    • September 2015 thread Assessment of Math Learning Center, initiated by Min Su.
    • October 2015 thread Public Speaking Rubric, initiated by Margot Saltonstall.
    • October 2015 thread STEM non-cog assessment, initiated by Jessica Jacovidis.
    • October 2015 thread STEM non-cog assessment, initiated by Elizabeth Whiteman.
  • Assessment of Student Learning in College Mathematics: Towards Improved Programs and Courses, published jointly by AIR and MAA. Part of AIR’s series on assessment in the disciplines.
  • Assessment in Mathematics Teaching
    • Focus is K-12 but some information, methods, references/links are appropriate for college-level courses.
    • From The Math Forum at Drexel University.
  • Assessment Practices in Undergraduate Mathematics
    • Examples & guidelines for assessment of student learning, from the Mathematical Association of America (pdf file).
    • The companion volume Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics is also available as a pdf file. (The earlier description of this book available here has an incorrect link for the pdf file.)
  • Concept Inventories for STEM Disciplines
  • See Engineering, above.
  • Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
    • Literature review from the National Research Council’s Committee on Recognizing, Evaluating, Rewarding, and Developing Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology.
    • Available for purchase, pdf download, or to read online (see Read).
  • A Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) for Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology Faculty.
  • Quantitative reasoning and scientific reasoning tests from Madison Assessment.
  • Rubrics for Scientific Reasoning &/or Scientific Literacy
  • STEM-related surveys and assessment tools
    • Harvard University’s PEAR (Program in Education, Afterschool, and Resiliency)

Technology-Assisted Teaching & Learning

  • Technology Resources, from NC State University, has annotated links to other resources on assessing the impact of technology on student learning.

Post-Collegiate Outcomes

 

Individual Institutions' Assessment-Related Pages

Note: NILOA's reports Exploring the landscape: What institutional websites reveal about learning outcomes assessment activities and Making Student Learning Evidence Transparent: The State of the Art indicate that assessment websites may be hard to find from an institution's home page and may not give a full picture of its assessment activities (pdf files).

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Alabama A&M University

Alabama A&M University Assessment Resources

  • OIPRE Student Learning Outcomes Academic Program Preparation Presentation (PPT).
  • 2017 Fall Assessment Workshop Presentation (PPT).
  • OIPRE Curriculum Mapping Guide (Word Doc).
  • OIPRE Student Learning Outcomes – Faculty Template (Spreadsheet).
  • OIPRE Student Learning Outcomes – Program Template (Updated 11/16/2017) (Spreadsheet).

Contact:

Parisa Naghshpour
Assessment Coordinator
Office of Institutional Planning, Research, and Effectiveness
Alabama A&M University
306 Patton Hall
Normal, AL 35762
(256) 372-8122

Alabama State University

Alabama State University: Office of Assessment

    • The WEAVE manual includes tips & guidelines for planning & implementing assessment processes for both academic and administrative/support units (pdf files).
      • WEAVEonline access is restricted to ASU faculty & staff.
    • The 2011-2012 feedback report is an evaluation rubric for units’ assessment plans (Word document).

Alamance Community College (North Carolina)

Alamance Community College (North Carolina)

  • Strategic Planning (Describes the primary objective of assessment at ACC.)
  • Institutional effectiveness manual (handbook, pdf file).
  • Instructions for using WEAVEonline is located within the IE manual (pdf file; WEAVE access is restricted to ACC faculty & staff).

Albion College (Michigan)

Albion College (Michigan)

  • Information from the assessment committee: Reporting templates for assessment plans & plan updates (Word documents).
    • The assessment home page describes the committee’s responsibilities.
    • Guidelines for Travel or Project Proposals.
      • Assessment Travel Grants
      • Assessment Project Grants
  • Guidelines for Completing Assessment Steps 1-6 (Word Doc).
  • Assessment Report Template (Word Doc).
  • Assessment Update Template (Word Doc).
  • Assessment plans & reports from individual academic and academic support units (Word documents).

Alverno College (Wisconsin)

Alverno College: Educational Research and Evaluation (Wisconsin)

  • Learning outcomes studies: Information about
    • Institutional and program assessment at Alverno.
      • Student assessment as learning: Overview, and information about Alverno’s:
        • Assessment Essentials: definitions, principles, difference between student-assessment-as-learning and institution/program assessment.
        • Self-assessment, including comments from students, external assessors, and faculty and information about Alverno’s diagnostic digital portfolio (the DDP itself is restricted to Alverno students, faculty, & staff).
        • Related publications and workshops.
      • Program assessment: Overview of program assessment at Alverno, and details about assessment in the School of Education.
    • The college’s community of inquiry.
      • Alverno’s (general education) core abilities and ability-based curriculum.
    • Information about Alverno’s research, publications and workshops on assessment.
  • FAQ.
  • Links to other assessment resources.

American Public University System (West Virginia)

American Public University System

  • Overview of Learning Outcomes Assessment at APUS.
    • ETS Proficiency Profile
    • ETS Major Field Tests
    • Peregrine Comprehensive Exams
    • The page contains the most recent data from their national testing program
  • APUS has adopted the Lumina Foundation’s Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) framework across its associate, bachelors, and master’s degree programs.
  • Information for students about APUS’ outcomes assessment process.

American University (Washington, DC)

American University (Washington, DC)

  • About assessment at AU.
  • Assessment reporting template and a rubric for evaluating assessment plans (pdf files).
  • Information about on-campus workshops.
  • Institutional assessment
    • AU assessment plan (pdf file).
    • Institutional research data & links.
    • Information about surveys used at AU, including (pdf file) NSSE results.
  • Program assessment plans (pdf files).
    • Individual academic departments.
    • General education program.
    • Best practice examples from AU departments.
    • Brief guidelines for program’s assessment plans.
  • Resources
    • Information about on-campus workshops.
    • Links to other assessment resources.Anderson University (Indiana)
  • Assessment plans and reports for some academic majors (pdf files).
  • Documents: Guides for preparing assessment plans and reports (pdf files).
  • Still to come: Liberal arts (general education) assessment plans & reports.

Andrews University (Michigan)

Andrews University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Michigan)

  • Assessment – Overview of Assessment at Andrews University
  • Assessment Resources
    • Value Rubrics
    • For Further Reading
  • Assessment highlights
    • Alumni Survey
    • National Survey of Student Engagement
    • Senior Survey Report
    • Spiritual Nurture at Andrews
    • ETS Proficiency Profile – Report of General Skills
  • Report Templates and Samples
    • Assessment Terminology
  • Internal Reports
    • HLC Reports
    • Feedback Survey 2014
    • NSSE 2015
    • NSSE 2013
  • Senior Testing
    • Senior Survey
    • Senior Exit Test
    • Major Fields Tests
  • Tutorials
    • Class Climate
    • Microsoft Excel – Rubric Calculator Set Up
  • Contact information: assessment@andrews.edu 

Angelina College (Texas)

Angelina College: Office of Quality Enhancement and Innovation (Texas)

  • Explains the overall mission of the Office of Quality Enhancement and Innovation (QEI).
    • MASS (Math Achievement Student Support
    • PATHWAYS
  • Evaluation Tools
    • Survey Information
      • QEI Survey Guidelines
      • QEI Survey Request
    • WEAVE | Academic Effect (need username/password to access)
    • Performance Rubrics
      • AC Communication Rubric
      • AC Critical Thinking Rubric
      • AC Empirical/Quantitative Rubric
      • AC Personal Responsibility Rubric
      • AC Social Responsibility Rubric
      • AC Teamwork Rubric
    • Additional Assessment Forms
      • 2016-17 PLO Assessment Summary Form
    • Faculty and Staff Resources
    • QEP – MASS
  • Contact Information: Dr. Cynthia Casparis, Vice President of Academic Affairs at ccasparis@angelina.edu

Anoka-Ramsey Community College (Minnesota)

Anoka-Ramsey Community College (Minnesota)

Anoka-Ramsey Community College is committed to having strong programs. Assessment of student learning is a critical part of our strategy to maintain and improve programs at the college.

The assessment of student learning is a comprehensive program to evaluate student learning with respect to learning goals, with the ultimate aim of improving student learning and strengthening learning programs. The process of assessment is relatively simple:

  • determining goals for student learning for each program
  • assessing how and what students are learning within their programs
  • implementing changes in programs in light of the assessment results

A successful assessment program requires the participation of all who are interested in the quality of our educational programs, including students, faculty, college administrators, and members of the public.

For in-depth assessment information, please visit our assessment blog at https://arccassessment.wordpress.com/

  • Purpose of Assessment
  • Goal Areas for Student Learning
  • Faculty Resources
    • Need access to eLumen

Appalachian State University (North Carolina)

Appalachian State University: Institutional Research, Assessment, & Planning (North Carolina)

  • Xitracs Portal Login
    • Access required
  • Academic Programs
    • What does assessment of academic programs involve?
    • Why do we need to assess student learning outcomes
    • Why are grades not enough?
  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Go to http://academicaffairs.appstate.edu/outcomes/ for a list of current student learning outcomes by program (last updated October 2016).
    • Click here to see the rubric (PDF, 83 KB) that assessment committees use to assess the quality of an academic program’s goals and student learning outcomes.
    • Examples of Programs with Functional SLO’s.
    • Help Writing a SLO.
    • Assessment Cycle in Xitracs
    • FAQs for Assessment of Academic Programs
  • Educational Support and Administrative Units
    • Assessment Cycle in Xitracs
    • Example Operational Goals and Outcomes for Academic Departments
    • FAQs for Assessment of Operations
  • General Education
    • GE Goals
    • About Assessment of GE
    • FAQs for GE Assessment
  • Resources
  • Potential Assessment Data
    • Instruments
    • NSSE
    • UNC GA Senior Surveys
    • UNC GA Freshman Surveys
    • UNC GA Sophomore Surveys
    • Alumni Survey
  • A-Portfolio
    • An electronic portfolio, or ePortfolio, is a personal academic website that provides a holistic view of a student’s learning and best work. The name for an electronic portfolio at Appalachian is APortfolio.
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Sample Assessment Reports
  • 2017 Assessment Grants
  • Transparency Framework
  • Resources
    • Training videos for Xitracs
    • Instructions for Assessment Reporting for Academic Programs (PDF)
    • Instructions fr Assessment Reporting for Educational Support and Administrative Units (PDF)
    • Instruction for Updating SLOs in Xitracs Plan Module (PDF)
    • Instructions for Creating a Curriculum Map in Xitracs (PDF)

Arizona State University

Arizona State University: University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness

  • Assessment Portal – ASU username and password required for access to portal.
  • Assessment Process
  • Assessment Plan
    • Mission Statement
    • Goal
    • Outcomes
      • Outcome Examples
    • Measures
      • Rubrics and Portfolios
    • Performance Criteria
    • Revising a Plan
  • Data Collection
  • Interpret Results
  • Report
  • Act on Results
  • FAQ
  • Contact University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness:  uoeee@asu.edu

Arizona Western College

Arizona Western College: Office of Assessment, Program Review, Curriculum and Articulation

The Office of Assessment, Program Review, Curriculum and Articulation serves to help campus-wide assessment efforts.

The office assists units with the assessment of academic and institutional program reviews, goals, and outcomes, and serves as the Unit Administrator and provides training for AWC’s Tk20 system.

  • Tk20
    • Juried Assessments
    • Portfolios
    • Facuty Qualifications
    • Curriculum Mapping
    • Course Evaluations
    • Assessment/Tk20 Glossary of Terms (PDF)
  • Training Resources (PDF files)
    • Workshops
    • Administrative Departments Assessment (part 1 and 2)
    • AWC Academic Program Assessment Plan Rubric
    • AWC Academic Course Level Assessment Plan Rubric
    • AWC Institutional Department Assessment Plan Rubric
  • Assessment Happenings (PDF files)
    • Newsletter
    • Annual Assessment Report
  • Institutional Benchmarks
    • Quantitative Analysis
    • 2016-17 Proficiency Results
    • Writing in the Discipline (Writing Intensive-WI)
  • Assessment Coalition
    • Mission Statement
    • Goals
    • Membership
    • Events
  • Contact information: assessment@azwestern.edu

 

 

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University

The Office of Student Learning Outcomes engages students, faculty, administration, alumni, and community stakeholders in a culture of assessment of student learning outcomes at Arkansas State University.

We strive to systematically collect, review and use information about academic programs to improve student learning and to demonstrate that students are achieving the desired learning outcomes consistent with the objectives of the academic program or unit.

  • Assessment is not a review of faculty performance, but rather ongoing measurement of student learning outcomes. Systematic assessment of student learning outcomes enables faculty to address pedagogical and practical issues consistent with individual faculty members’ unique approaches.
  • Assessment focuses on evaluating student achievement of expected learning outcomes based on achieving the strategic goals and objective as identified by the university, individual colleges, departments or other specified units.
  • Assessment seeks to assist faculty in understanding and improving student learning.
  • Assessment assists the university with sustaining and enhancing academic quality and the student educational experience.
  • Assessment is systematic and ongoing.

Office of Assessment

  • How-to…
    • Create and Submit Syllabi
    • Plan for Assessment
  • Assessment Resource Links
    • Links to Assessment Commons and NILOA
    • Links for Writing Student Learning Outcomes
    • Links to Rubrics
    • Links to Organizations in Asssessment
    • Links to Webinars
    • Links to YouTube Videos
  • Taskstream – Assessment Management System
  • Assessment Myths and Realities
    • 10 myths are listed for review.
  • Important Dates
  • Workshops with the Faculty Center
    • Scheduler
    • Teaching and Learning Workshops
    • Summer Institute
    • Webinars
    • Faculty Center Food Truck
    • Faculty Mentorship
  • Committees
    • A-State Assessment
    • Co-Curricular Assessment
    • Program Level Assessment
    • General Education
  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • University Level Outcomes
    • General Education Outcomes
    • Program Level

Contact information: Dr. Summer Deprow, Director of Assessment at sdeprow@astate.edu

Arkansas Tech University

Arkansas Tech University: Office of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

Welcome to the Office of Assessment & Institutional Effectiveness

Our purpose is to serve as a resource and support for the activities of the Arkansas Tech community. We take the mission statement provided below very seriously. Please contact us with any questions, requests, or comments.

Our Mission

The Office of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness (OAIE) facilitates the collaborative culture of assessment and continuous improvement of Arkansas Tech University’s academic and administrative programs and services. By providing resources and technical expertise to assist in the systematic development, review, and collection of data, the OAIE guides the university in the reflective practices that lead to evidence-based decision making.

  • TracDat access limited to faculty and staff.
  • Survey and Assessment Activities
    • Fall Semester – College Student Inventory (CSI)
    • Spring Semester – NSSE and FSSE
    • Summer Semester
  • Academic Assessment
    • Readings
    • Just Flip It: From the Front Lines of the Flipped Classroom
    • Assessment for Learning
    • Academic Program Review
  • Institutional Effectiveness
    • Assessment Academy
      • The Basics
      • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Infographics
      • Examples on Pinterest
      • PPT Presentation
      • Piktochart: How to Create Your First Infographic
    • Webinars
  • Assessment Resources
  • Assessment Links
  • Assessment Forms
  • Assessment Grant Forms
  • Contact: assessment@atu.edu

Auburn University (Alabama)

Auburn University: Office of Institutional Research & Assessment (Alabama)

  • Assessment reports: Criteria for Evaluation
    • Overview of Outcomes
    • Overview of Assessment
    • Overview of Findings
    • Overview of Improvements
  • Survey results:
    • Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement
    • National Survey of Student Engagement
    • Survey of Recent Bachelor’s Degree Recipients
    • Graduating Senior Exit Survey
  • Institutional Effectiveness
    • AU Institutional Effectiveness
      • General Information
      • View Reports
  • Resources include assessment council minutes (pdf files) and links to other assessment resources (this page).

Augustana College (Illinois)

Augustana College: Institutional Research and Assessment Office (Illinois)

Vision: The Institutional Research and Assessment Office propels the Augustana teacher, student, and scholar community to actively embrace a culture of improvement that is mission-centered and evidence-based.

Mission:  The Institutional Research and Assessment Office (IR&A) gathers, examines, interprets, and applies evidence to improve student learning and maximize educational effectiveness at Augustana College.  We cultivate this process of perpetual improvement in three primary ways.

  • IR&A collects a wide range of evidence through surveys, interviews, and focus groups to inform decision-making at all levels of the college.  In addition, we report institutional data to federal, state, and other appropriate accrediting bodies.
  • IR&A consults with faculty and staff, departments, programs, committees, divisions, and other administrative offices to facilitate successful engagement in the entire assessment process toward improved student learning and institutional effectiveness.
  • IR&A collaborates with offices and departments across the college to utilize evidence in designing and implementing pedagogical, program, and policy changes that enhance student learning and experiences.
  • Assessment of student learning and institutional effectiveness at Augustana:
  • Resources for gathering and using course level feedback:
    • We use The IDEA Center.
    • Here is a PowerPoint presentation about using The IDEA Center SRI at Augustana.
    • View a PowerPoint presentation on transforming IDEA feedback into your teaching and related worksheet.
    • Would you like more ideas on how to use your feedback from The IDEA Center?  Check out their blog.
    • How do the IDEA center objectives align with college student learning outcomes or Program goals?  Here is an idea of how to start and a course level to college level template as well as a program level to college level template.
    • View the institution’s Spring 2011-12 Group Summary Report, the Fall 2012-13 Group Summary Report, the 2012-13 Academic Year Group Summary Report, or the 2013-2014 Academic Year Group Summary Report.
    • The IDEA Center process should not be the only method for gathering evidence on teaching and learning.  We can assist with developing other methods of assessing student learning.
  • Other Resources
    •  Increasing student investment in the first three weeks.  A PowerPoint of the presentation from faculty retreat 2014.
    • Consent form for sharing student work.  There are several consent forms for e-portfolio use as well.
    • Augustana College is a member of the Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium, which consists of 129 small, private, nonprofit institutions around the country that are committed to sharing and using information to more fully enact their missions and promote effective liberal arts education.
  • Contact information:
    • Mark Salisbury, Ph.D. 
      Director of Institutional Research and Assessment
      Founders Hall 116
      (309) 794-7504
      marksalisbury@augustana.edu

 

Austin Community College (Texas)

AustinCommunity College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability (Texas)

  • Instructional programs
    • The discipline assessment cycle (DAC) manual includes general education learning outcomes & competencies (handbook; Word document).
    • Information about periodic program review (pdf files, Word documents).
  • College-wide assessment
    • Guidelines, formats, & tools for administrative & support unit assessment (pdf files, html pages).
      • Also see support services review.
      • Please do not enter anything in the outcomes tool form.
      • Access to CurricUNET’s assessment module is restricted to ACC faculty & staff.
    • Institutional effectiveness snapshot (pdf file).
  • Results from surveys of students & faculty, including CCSSE (pdf files).
  • The archives include an older assessment handbook and glossary (pdf files).
    • Access to the U-LEAD assessment data base is restricted to ACC faculty & staff.

Babson College (Massachusetts)

Babson College (Massachusetts)

  • Overview and (pdf file) assurance of learning process.
  • General education learning goals (outcomes) for undergraduate and masters’ degrees.
  • Links to other general assessment resources.
  • Program Learning Goals
    • Undergraduate
    • MBA
    • MSA
    • MSM
    • MSF
  • Babson Resources
    • Accreditation
    • Institutional Research
    • Provost’s Office
  • Contact: Lindsay N. Turner, PhD at lturner2@babson.edu

Bakersfield College (California)

Bakersfield College (California)

  • BC’s philosophy of assessment.
  • Assessment results: Individual academic programs’ outcomes, assessment methods, and (some) results (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
  • The assessment blog includes committee minutes and material from on-campus workshops & assessment events.
  • Tips & guidelines on setting up an assessment plan (Word documents).
    • Evaluation rubrics for assessment plans.
    • Still to come: BC examples.
  • General education and institutional level learning outcomes, and some assessment results (Word documents).
  • Links to other assessment resources.
  • Assessment Articles

Ball State University (Indiana)

Ball State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Indiana)

  • Results from multiple surveys of students and alumni (pdf documents).
  • Workshops
    • Professional Development Sessions for Ball State University Faculty and Staff Members.
  • Resources (pdf files)
    • Assessment workbook: Handbook for departments designing and using assessment plans.
    • Lending library: Tables of contents of books about assessment.
  • Academic Review Process
    • Policies and Procedures
    • Review Schedule

Barton County Community College (Kansas)

Barton County Community College (Kansas)

Outcomes Assessment Committee

Barton’s Outcomes Assessment Committee is committed to quality education and to the assessment of student learning for the purpose of improving students’ academic achievements at the class, course, program, and degree levels.

Assessment Plans

Assessment Reports

Levels of Assessment

Classroom Level Assessment

Course Level Assessment

Degree Level Assessment

NCA Related

Resources

Baruch College (New York)

Baruch College: Office of Institutional Research and Program Assessment (New York)

  • Overview of assessment and guidelines for creating an assessment plan.
  • What is Outcomes Assessment?
    • Outcomes assessment is the process of setting goals, determining how well those goals are being met, and determining the best course of action to take to improve those results.
  • Creating an Assessment
    • This page is meant as a primer on how to design and conduct an assessment, but it is by no means in-depth enough to be used as one’s only resource. Accordingly, several links to more detailed information are peppered throughout.
    • Assessment Guidelines for Programs, Majors, and Minors (.PDF)
      This document, prepared in the Spring semester of 2014, goes into deeper detail than this page. It is an essential resource.
  • Learning Goals at Baruch College
    • In addition to Baruch’s college-wide learning goals, each individual school or department sets their own.
  • Co-Curricular Assessment
    • In addition to assessments currently being undertaken in Baruch’s three schools, other co-curricular programs are conducting assessments as well.
  • Assessment Projects and Surveys
    • Assessment Schedule
    • Co-Curricular Assessment
    • Assessment by School
    • College-Wide Assessment
      • NSSE
      • BCSSE
      • CLA
      • FSSE
  • Resources
    • This page displays resources and general information about assessment practices and topics.
  • Assessment Framework for Administrative and Support Units
    • This document is also available as a PDF, prepared by the Office of Institutional Research and Program Assessment.
  • Contact information: Rachél Fester, Ph.D. at rachel.fester@baruch.cuny.edu
    Assistant Provost for Assessment, Accreditation, and Institutional Effectiveness

Bates Technical College (Washington)

Bates Technical College: Institutional Research and Assessment (Washington)

Institutional Assessment

Bates Technical College is in the process of implementing a comprehensive institutional assessment model. The model has several components and assesses the effectiveness of all aspects of college programs and services including credit and non-credit instruction, student services, and administrative and support services. The major components of the model are as follows:

  • Research-driven assessments of support services and functions, with a particular focus on student experience and impact on student achievement.
  • A three-year cycle of comprehensive program review, enabling each program to integrate their instructional and industrial requirements into a single research and assessment process. This will be complemented by a simplified annual update and review process for each program.

Institutional Research and Educational Systems work closely with the Assessment Committee in all aspects of developing the model. This ensures that the model reflects good research and evaluation practice, supports the college’s accreditation requirements, brings together all the relevant available data and information, but most of all that it continues to reflect the needs and expectations of Bates students.

Key Performance Indicators 2015-16

2022 Strategic Plan Goal 2 Targets

Bates Institutional Assessment Plan

Board Data Report

Online Repository of Curriculum Workbook

Annual Accomplishments Survey

KPI Measures Survey Results

Benedictine University (Illinois)

Benedictine University: Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (Illinois)

Berea College (Kentucky)

Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

The mission of the Berea College Office of Institutional Research and Assessment is to provide leadership and support for research, accreditation, and assessment by:

  • providing data in support of the College’s planning processes,
  • cultivating and supporting assessment activities across all areas of the College, and
  • designing and conducting original research aimed at improving students’ educational experiences.

Academic Program Assessment

In short, all academic programs at Berea College are expected to:

  • Identify student learning outcomes specific to their discipline or major;
  • conduct regular annual assessments of one or more student learning outcomes specific to each program; and
  • use the results of these assessments to inform ongoing/continuous programmatic efforts to improve

Documents and forms provide more details and examples of the assessment process

Assessment Resources 

  • Resources from Assessment Organizations and Initiatives
  • Assessment at Other Institutions
  • Articles
  • Magazine Issues
  • Other Publication Resources

Contact: Robert Smith

 

 

Bergen Community College (New Jersey)

Bergen Community College: Center for Institutional Effectiveness (New Jersey)

  • Assessment
    • Two types of assessment are conducted by the Center for Institutional Effectiveness (CIE) at Bergen Community College, Administrative and Educational Support Assessment and Assessment of Student Learning.
    • Administrative and Educational Support Assessment evaluates the overall effectiveness with which the college is achieving its goals. The assessment of student learning determines to what extent students are acquiring the knowledge, skills and competencies expected of them as they move through the courses in their programs.
    • The results of these assessments improve programs and services, enhance student learning and impact the planning and allocation of resources. All academic departments and designated administrative and educational support departments develop assessment plans.
  • Assessment Documents and References (PDF files)
  • Meta-Analyses of Assessment Activities (PDF files)
  • Administrative and Educational Support Assessment
    • AES Assessment Plans and Reports
    • AES Unit Leaders
  • Assessment of Student Learning
    • Academic Assessment Liaisons
    • Academic Assessment Plans and Reports
    • Curriculum Maps
    • Learning Assessment Committee
  • Assessment Presentations and Workshops
    • Fall 2011 through Spring 2018 (PDF files)
  • Assessment Resources
    • Semester 1:  Deciding What to Assess
    • Semester 2: Choosing an Assessment Tool
    • Semester 3: Collecting and Analyzing Assessment Data
    • Semester 4: Implementing and Closing the Loop
    • Links to Bergen’s Exemplary Assessment Reports
  • CID Assessment Fellows
    • Role of the Assessment Fellows
    • The Fellows’ Responsibilities
    • The Fellows’ Commitment
    • Current Assessment Fellows
    • CIE Newsletters (PDF files)

Berkeley City College (California)

BCC Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Home

Please use this site to find information about student learning outcomes (SLO’s) and SLO assessment, as they relate to specific courses, programs, student services, and institutional learning outcomes at Berkeley City College.

Taskstream is the repository for all information about SLOs and SLO assessment at BCC. It contains the most current versions of SLOs for all courses, instructional programs, and student services areas. See the instructions for using Taskstream (on the left) to view SLO’s, assessment results, action plans, and results of action plans.

  • Learning Outcomes Assessment (HTML pages)
    • Multiple Levels of Learning Outcomes and Assessment
    • Assessment Process
  • Plans and Report (HTML pages)
    • Narratives and Evidence
    • Status of Assessment
    • Program Assessment Matrices
  • Information for Faculty and Staff (HTML pages)
    • Student Learning Outcomes for Syllabi
    • How to Document Assessment Work
    • Classroom Assessment Techniques
    • Program Assessment Matrices
  • Student Learning Outcome (SLO) Assessment at BCC
    • Video produced by Hannah Chauvet, BCC MMART instructor
  • Assessment Committee (HTML pages)
    • Planning for Institutional Effectiveness (PIE) Committee
    • Teaching and Learning Center
  • SLO Resources (HTML pages)
    • Action Plan Examples (A.P.E.)
    • An Assessment Film
    • BCC English Department Assessment article featured in “Assessment Update.”
  • Please feel free to send related questions and comments to Jenny Lowood at jlowood@sbcglobal.net.

Bevill State Community College (Alabama)

Bevill State Community College: Office of Grants, Planning, Research, & Institutional Effectiveness (Alabama)

The College’s planning and assessment process relies heavily on survey results from students, faculty, staff, community leaders, directors of area industry, and the like.

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Research facilitates most all College surveys whether administered online or by paper and coordinates to publish results in a user-friendly format that is easy to understand.

The College participates in a number of national assessments that allow the institution to compare itself with peer community colleges from around the nation. These surveys include:

  • the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE),
  • Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE),
  • Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey, and
  • the National Community College Benchmark Project

Reports, factoids, and data summaries are provided on the following pages:

Binghamton University (New York)

Binghamton University (New York)

  • Assessment at Binghamton University

    We hope this site is useful for members of the university community wanting to submit reports, learn more about assessment, or be part of the large number of faculty and staff interested in using the results of assessment to enhance what they do.

    If you have any questions or comments, please contact Nasrin Fatima, Assistant Provost for Institutional Research and Effectiveness, at nfatima@binghamton.edu or 607-777-2365.

  • BU’s College Portrait.

Bismarck State College (North Dakota)

Bismarck State College (North Dakota)

Assessment FAQ

Academic Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning.  It is a key indicator of institutional effectiveness and a vehicle for improvement.  The general steps of the academic assessment cycle are to:

  • Determine expectations, or learning outcomes
  • Determine appropriate criteria and standards for learning quality
  • Gather, analyze, and interpret evidence to determine performance levels
  • Use the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance.

Assessment asks faculty to think about the following:

  • What should students be learning?
  • What are students actually learning?
  • What should faculty be doing to facilitate student learning?

Answering these questions enables faculty to build stronger courses and programs. It also helps improve communication on campus, assist in making better academic and administrative decisions, and identify good teaching.

Areas of Academic Assessment at Bismarck State College:

AQIP

  • Action Projects
  • Systems Portfolio
  • Quality Checkup Visit

Department Review

Student Profile

Student Achievement Indicators

Institutional Assessment

  • Institutional Essential Learning Outcomes
  • Resources

Bluefield State College (West Virginia)

Bluefield State College: Office of Institutional Research (West
Virginia

Assessment Data

  • 2016-17 Assessment Committee Members
  • Live Text
  • Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory
    • SSI Strategic Planning Overview
    • SSI Summary
    • SSI Item Summary
    • SSI Scale Summary
    • SSI Scale Importance
    • SSI Demographics
    • SSI Extra Questions
  • Noel Levitz Employee Satisfaction Survey
    • CESS Action Plan (Spring 2014: BSC Commitment: Working Together for Student Success)
    • CESS Item Summary (2014)
  • Assessment Resources
    • Assessment Definitions
    • 9 Principles of Good Assessment

Bluegrass Community & Technical College (Kentucky)

Bluegrass Community & Technical College (Kentucky)

Assessment Mission Statement

In support of BCTC’s mission, assessment is embraced as a continuous source of information essential for improving student success and fostering excellence in teaching and learning. The Assessment Office works with program coordinators in identifying expected outcomes, assessing the extent to which outcomes are achieved, and providing evidence of improvement based on analysis of the results.

Assessment Goals

  1. To foster a culture of assessment as a necessary response to increased demands of accountability with an understanding that assessment is a continuous process of quality improvement.
  2. To respond to accreditation demands, specifically Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Core Requirements and Comprehensive Standards and program specific accreditation criteria.
  3. To promote excellence in teaching and learning by serving as a facilitator for training, assessment resources and processes.
  4. To provide feedback and reporting of assessment plans as they relate to student learning outcomes.
  5. To develop, implement, and improve the assessment process.

Assessment Model

Assessment Process

  1. Identify the Outcome
    1. In collaboration with faculty in your department/area, review the curriculum competencies, discuss and determine the outcomes you plan to assess.
    2. Each technical program will need to select 3 student learning outcomes.
  2. Plan the Assessment
    1. Working with faculty in your department/area, discuss and determine appropriate assessment methodology and criteria for success (benchmarks).
    2. The method of assessment should be consistent. If the method of assessment is a project, all instructors should use the same project and rubric for grading.
  3. Perform Assessment
    1. Use the AIM System to maintain outcome assessment and progress.
    2. Record results in AIM.
  4. Review Results
    1. Gather and summarize the data collected.
    2. Present the results to other faculty in your department/area.
  5. Use Results for Improvement
    1. Work with faculty in your department/area to review the results , identifying how the results will be used to improve student success.
    2. Describe plans or recommendations to improve student learning. How can we best address the problem?
      1. Additional emphasis/more time on specific topics.
      2. Change in delivery method.
      3. Additional lab time.

The Review Process Today

  • BCTC Annual Health Review Process
  • CPE Program Review Process

In addition to the BCTC Annual Health Review and the CPE Five-Year Program Review process, information obtained from program productivity, advisory committees, graduate surveys, alumni surveys, and employer surveys all provide additional data about the efficiency and effectiveness of the various programs at BCTC.

  • 2017-2018 Energy (and Miscellaneous)

Faculty Resources

Assessment Newsletter

General Education Assessment

Boise State University (Idaho)

Boise State University (Idaho)

Assessment of student learning outcomes at Boise State helps us meet student learning goals through alignment of authentic experiences throughout the major or program. Please see the menu for information and links to Boise State’s learning outcomes assessment plans, information, and reports.

University Learning Outcomes Assessment

  • GE Assessment Plan
    • University Learning Outcomes (ULO) plan and reports
  • Assessment Reports
    • 2014-15
    • 2015-16

First Year Writing Assessment

Assessment in Student Affairs (pdf file)

Assessment Coordinating Committee

  • Background for Assessment Planning at BSU
  • Purpose of Committee

Program Learning Outcomes Assessment

  • Program Assessment Report Timeline for Departments
  • Program Assessment Reporting Schedule
  • Framework for PLO Assessment
  • Process for PLO Assessment
    • Forms
    • How will PAR Reports be shared?
  • Peer Review Process
  • PAR Training

Program Learning Outcomes by Department (links to each college’s PLOs are listed)

Resources

  • Examples
  • CTL Workshops
  • Assessment Support
  • Best Practices

 

 

Borough of Manhattan Community College (New York)

Borough of Manhattan Community College: Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics

Assessment

One of the main functions of The Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics is to serve as a resource for academic and student services assessment, including but not limited to General Education assessment and college-wide assessment.

Assessment is a systematic process that shows whether goals are being met, and to what extent. There are five crucial steps in assessment: clearly stated overall program, department, or course goals; defining intended outcomes as they relate to the stated overall goals; means of assessment to measure the outcomes; summary of results; and use of results to implement improvement or change.

Academic Assessment Resources:

Administrative, Educational, and Student Support (AES) Assessment Resources:

AES Unit Review Reports:

Institutional Effectiveness Plan

Contact Information: ins@bmcc.cuny.edu

Boston University (Massachusetts)

Boston University, Program Learning Outcomes Assessment

 

 

Bowdoin College (Maine)

Bowdoin College: Reflective Teaching Project (Maine)

Project Overview

The overall goal of the Reflective Teaching Project is to facilitate meaningful thought and discussion among faculty about teaching and learning that will inspire appropriate change in curriculum and pedagogy.

In practice, the idea is to better enable the Office of Institutional Research to have an impact on the academic program by …
  1. designing and conducting research on curriculum and pedagogy;
  2. designing and conducting research in conjunction with faculty at the level of the academic department or program or course; and
  3. undertaking meaningful assessment of learning outcomes in the liberal arts context.

The Reflective Teaching Project was funded for three years by the Davis Educational Foundation; 2003-04 through 2005-06.

Projects, Reports, Studies and Instruments

Center for Learning and Teaching

English for Multilingual Speakers

Writing and Rhetoric

Quantitative Reasoning

Workshops and Events

Academic Departments and Programs

Brandeis University (Massachusetts)

Brandeis University: Office of Assessment (Massachusetts)

Brenau University (Georgia)

Brenau University: Office of Academic Assessment (Georgia)

The Assessment Office is dedicated to supporting Brenau University’s commitment to educational excellence. It is our mission, with input from all units of the university, to assist the institution in demonstrating the quality and effectiveness of its programs and services in support of the institutional mission, by means of a broad based and institutionally supported system of evaluation, documentation and use of results for improvement.

Brigham Young University (Utah)

Brigham Young University: Planning and Assessment (Utah)

Bryan College (Tennessee)

Bryan College: Student Achievement (Tennessee)

  • The student outcomes manual (pdf file) includes:
    • College learning outcomes & assessment methods.
    • Results from standardized instruments, including the Proficiency Profile & Major Field Tests.
    • Results from surveys of current & graduating students.
  • The institutional effectiveness manual (pdf file) includes:
    • General education learning outcomes & assessment report.
    • Individual academic and administrative & support units’ assessment plans & reports.
  • Results from the student satisfaction inventory.
  • Links to other assessment resources.

Bucknell University (Pennsylvania)

Bucknell University – Institutional Research and Planning

With the rising costs of higher education, this is a question that is being asked by parents, prospective students, government agencies, and accrediting bodies. Understanding that this is a valid question, colleges and universities are engaging in the process of outcomes assessment.

At Bucknell University, the outcomes assessment serves two primary functions. The first is to provide evidence that our students are learning and developing in and out of the classroom, consistent with Bucknell’s mission and educational goals, and that our institutional policies, resources and services are appropriately supporting Bucknell’s strategic plan. The second function, equally critical, is to provide a mechanism for a continued improvement of all facets of Bucknell education.

In regards to college-wide assessment, the Office of Institutional Research & Planning has two main responsibilities:

  1. To provide ongoing logistical support in all stages of assessment to academic, co-curricular and administrative departments, from planning, through data collection and analysis, to “closing the loop”
  2. To support, and closely collaborate with, faculty-led committees on assessment of student learning, including general education outcomes
  3. To organize workshops and other professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, in order to share recent research and best practices in assessment
  4. To review annual departmental assessment reports and provide feedback and guidance to departments
  5. To promote a culture of assessment and evidence-based planning and decision-making

The purpose of this website is to serve as a central location for assessment-related information, tools, templates and resources at Bucknell University. We hope that you will find it useful and informative.

The site has a drop down menu under the heading “IN THIS SECTION” where visitors to the site can review Bucknell University’s Institutional Research and Planning along with assessment information.

 

 

 

 

Buena Vista University (Iowa)

Buena Vista University: Strategic Plan (Iowa)

  • BVU’s assessment plan.
  • Objectives (outcomes) & assessment plans for individual academic majors.
    • Some majors’ pages include links to rubrics, test items, etc. (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
    • The cheat sheets (on the training resources page) have information about some academic programs’ outcomes and assessment methods (Word documents).
  • The curriculum overview has university-wide (general education) goals & outcomes. BVU objectives has associated rubrics (Word documents).
    • The dashboard on the home page has general education assessment results.
  • Student services outcomes and (Word documents) assessment plan, rubrics & program map.
  • Assessment annual reports and the Focus online reporting and ePortfolio system are restricted to BVU faculty & staff.

Buffalo State College (New York)

Buffalo State College: Assessment @ Buffalo State (New York)

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness provides resources and leadership for campus-wide assessment activities. Activities range from workshops for academic department representatives to producing reports that focus on a variety of topics.

Bradley Fuster, Associate VP Institutional Effectiveness
fusterbj@buffalostate.edu

Just in Time Assessment Video Tutorials

The Assessment Advisory Board developed this series of “Just in Time” video tutorials to assisst faculty as they develop new or revised curriculum:

The site lists links to the following information:

  • Major Program Review
  • Major Program Assessment Plans and Curriculum Maps
  • Assessment Reports
  • GE Dashboard
  • Evaluation Rubrics for Department Awards for Outstanding Assessment
  • 2014-19 Assessment Plan
  • Assessment Matters @ Buffalo State Newsletter
  • IF Assessment Cycle
  • Academic Affairs Assessment
    • Program Reviews
    • Program Assessment Plans and Curriculum Maps
    • AAHE Principles
    • Assessment in Major Programs
    • Assessment Plan
    • Assessment Reports

Bunker Hill Community College (Massachussetts)

Bunker Hill Community College: SLOAP Faculty Task Force (Massachussetts)

  • SLOAP: Bunker Hill’s student learning outcomes assessment program.
  • The SLOAP database has:
    • Information about Bunker Hill’s assessment process.
    • Program and course-level learning outcomes, assessment methods, results, & impacts. (Click an X for the associated report. They don’t look like hyperlinks, but they are.)
  • General education requirements, in the Additional Resources menu, includes Bunker Hill’s general education outcomes.

Butler University (Indiana)

Butler University: Office of Institutional Research & Assessment (Indiana)

The Assessment side of OIRA supports the University’s various evaluation needs to ensure students continue to receive an excellent Butler education. Through our data-driven measurement efforts with student learning assessment, program reviews, and preparations for HLC accreditation site visits, teaching and learning processes are constantly refined, enhanced, and adjusted to meet the needs of today’s students.

Butte College (California)

Butte College (California)

  • About SLOs at Butte College
  • Overview of assessment at BC.
    • What To Do: Faculty
    • What To Do: Chairs/Coordinators
    • What are brief reflections and deep dives? See the About page.
  • Brief Reflections Reports
    • Department Chairs/Coordinators: The template for brief reflections summaries is here. Requirements are described here.
  • Deep Dive Schedules and Reports
    • Learning Outcomes Assessment
      • This section, viewable by subject, includes Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs), the matrix that shows the alignment of  course-level Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) with PLOs and General Education Learning Outcomes (GELOs) and the assessment schedule, and outcomes assessment reports (2013 to present).
      • Butte College SLO Webpage
      • View Subject List
  • Forms and Examples

Cabrillo College (California)

Cabrillo College (California)

  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Cabrillo College SLO Assessment Plan
    • Assessment Areas
    • Outcomes Assessment Review Committee (ARC)
    • Assessment Effectiveness Measures
    • CurricUNET SLO Module
    • Current Best Practices Manuals
    • The ABC’s of SLO Assessment
  • Writing Instructional Outcomes
  • Writing Student Services SLOs
  • Assessing Instructional SLOs
  • Assessing Student Service SLOs (Coming Soon)
  • How to Create a Grading Rubric
  • AUO Primer
  • Department Chairs Handbook
  • Access to Cabrillo’s tracking tool is restricted to Cabrillo faculty & staff.
  • Forms
  • Department Chair Resources
  • Milestones
  • Resources
  • Contacts: Marcy Alancraig

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute (North Carolina)

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute (North Carolina)

  • Assessment at CCC&TI is a handbook with:
    • An overview of assessment at CCC&TI,
    • Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing assessment processes,
    • CCC&TI’s general education outcomes, and
    • information from and links to other assessment resources.
  • Note: The general education assessment document (in the institutional effectiveness documents list) is not currently available online.
    • To get access to the report, contact the Director of Institutional Effectiveness for CCC&TI.

California Baptist University

California Baptist University: Assessment

Program assessment is an annual activity undertaken by all CBU academic programs/majors, the Library, and Student Services.  It is a systematic on-going process to collect evidence suitable for ascertaining to what degree a program/major is meetings its stated student learning outcomes (SLOs).  The focus is on student learning; can graduating students demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the program/major’s SLOs?  The collected assessment data and subsequent analysis provide a basis for evaluation, decision making, planning, and budgeting.  In addition, annual assessment is aggregated and included as an important element in the program/major’s program review.

  • Understanding Assessment
  • Assessment Resources (CBU)
  • WASC Assessment Resources (WSCUC)
  • CBU Assessment History (Reports)
    • Assessment Tracking and Reports
  • Program Review

California Lutheran University

California Lutheran University

Cal Lutheran has almost a decade of institutional experience in developing and implementing SLOs. Faculty began developing Cal Lutheran’s institution-wide SLOs in 2000.  By the conclusion of the 2003-04 academic year, faculty reached consensus on 14 SLOs and defined each outcome. Over time, each outcome became more clearly defined and faculty determined where the outcomes would be embedded in the curriculum and co-curriculum.

During 2008 – 09, faculty reviewed and streamlined the 14 SLOs to eight institutional student learning outcomes.  Each learning outcome has been further defined and sample rubrics are provided.

  • Learning Outcomes
    • Mission Statement
    • Program Learning Outcomes
    • Writing Learning Outcomes
    • Course Syllabi
    • Curriculum Maps
    • Evidence of Progress on Learning Outcomes
    • Experiential Learning
  • Assessment System
    • Overview
    • Graduate School of Education
    • Example Syllabus Section on Learning Outcomes
  • Program Reviews
    • Overview
    • Process and Report
    • Handbook and Template
  • Administrative Department Reviews
    • Overview
  • Surveys
    • Survey Central
    • Survey Calendar
  • Resources
    • Workshops
    • Assessment Tools
    • Course Evaluations
    • Research
  • Contact 

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona

  • Learning Outcomes
    • Institutional Learning Outcomes
    • General Education Student Learning Ouctomes
    • Core Competencies
    • Program Learning Outcomes
    • Graduate Institutional Learning Outcomes
  • Assessment, Measurement, and Evaluation of Learning Outcomes
    • Rubrcs
    • Meaning, Quality, & Integrity Degree
    • Inventory of Educational Effectiveness Indicators
    • Institutional Assessment Results
  • Rubrics
  • Program Review
  • Training and Workshops
  • Assessment and Accreditation Tools and Resources
  • Committees and Staff
  • WSCUC Re-Accreditation
  • Contact Us

California State University System

California State University System

  • Biennial reports (pdf files, through 2006) include outcomes assessment overviews for each CSU campus.
  • Scroll down for an overview of the process, definitions of the performance areas and reporting elements, and other descriptive documents (pdf files).
  • Note: See the individual entries for notes on assessment at each campus: Cal Poly-Pomona, Channel Islands, Chico, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Sacramento, San Francisco State, San Jose State, San Marcos, and Stanislaus.
  • The Cornerstones Report

California State University, Channel Islands

California State University, Channel Island

Assessment of Student Learning

The focus of this web page content is on student learning at Cal State-Channel Islands. Related sites are The Cal State-Channel Islands Assessment Council and Assessment Resources for assessment of student learning.

Glossary of terms for use due to the need for a common language for discussion.

  • Assessment of student learning
  • Evaluation of student learning
  • Goal(s)
  • Student Learning Outcome(s)

Useful Resources

Program and Course Learning Outcomes by Program (MS Excel documents)

Mini-Grant Program

CSU Faculty Development Programs

Teaching and Learning Innovations

  • Teaching and Learning Innovations (T&LI) at CSU Channel Islands is a program designed to guide, support and inspire faculty at CI to step outside of traditional boundaries of teaching to improve student learning.   We are led by the CI mission to put students at the center of the educational experience.

 

 

California State University, Chico

California State University, Chico

  • Assessment
    • Academic Assessment Council (AAC)
      • Academic Assessment Council and Philosophy
      • Assessment Planning and Definitions
      • Report Templates
      • Resources
      • FAQs
      • Simple Plans and Reports
    • Academic Program Reivew
      • Review Process
      • Program Portfolios
      • Accredited Programs
      • Academic Program Review Dashboards
      • Academic Program Review Data
      • Curriculum Services
      • Academic Department Manual
    • General Education Program Level Assessment
      • For Students
      • For Faclty
      • Curriculum Advisory Board
      • Documents
      • Substitutions and Modifications
    • Surveys and Reports
      • Campus Climate
      • NSSE
      • FSSE
      • CIRP TFS
      • Spring Graduates Survey
      • CLA

California State University, Dominguez Hills

California State University, Dominguez Hills (click on Assessment of Student Learning)

 

California State University, East Bay

California State University, East Bay

  • Educational Effectviiveness
    • Institutional Learning Outcomes
  • Learning and Assessment
    • Semester Conversion
    • Assessment at CSUEB
    • Learning and Assessment Resources
  • Educational Effectiveness Council
    • Assessment Budgets
    • Schedule of Meetings/Minutes
  • Program Portfolios
    • Program Review
      • Program Improvement
      • Program and Resource Alignment
      • Accountability
    • Evidence through Program Portfolios
  • Student Success and Assessment Committee

California State University, Long Beach

Program Review and Assessment

The Assessment office helps departments and academic programs ensure students graduate with highly valued degrees by:

  • Supporting the scholarship of learning on campus;
  • Assisting individuals working on learning objectives at the course level;
  • Providing feedback to departments and programs about methods for assessing student learning at the program level and ensuring alignment with GE and institutional-level outcomes as well as WSCUC Core Competencies;
  • Working with departments and programs to develop viable assessment plans;
  • Working with the offices of Student Assessment and Institutional Research to assist the university in its core commitment to assess student success;
  • Providing information about assessment activities such as conferences, websites, and e-learning opportunities.

The Program Review office helps departments, academic programs, and academic support programs ensure students graduate with highly valued degrees by:

  • Assisting departments and programs as they complete the self-study for program review (powerpoint tutorial available – PDF);
  • Working with departments and the VPAA to determine a suitable external reviewer for program review;
  • Supporting UPRC members in the drafting of program-review reports and recommendations to departments and programs.

More information on the program-review process may be found at the Program Assessment Review Council link.

  • Program Assessment and Review Council (PARC)
    • Information regarding the Council’s charge and duties.
    • Agendas and Minutes
    • Year End Report
    • Program Review
    • Assessment
  • Institutional Learning Outcomes
    • Institutional Learning Outcomes highlight the knowledge, skills, and abilities all students are expected to have upon graduating from CSULB.
  • Program Learning Outcomes
    • Program Learning Outcomes highlight what students should know and be able to do in their degree program at the time of graduation
  • Core Competency Assessment Initiative
    • Core Competency FAQs
  • Assessment Annual Reports and Resources
    • Annual Assessment Reports
    • Assessment Resources
      • General Resources
      • University Assessment Pages
  • Contact Program Review and Assessment

California State University, Los Angeles

Assessment

Assessment is the process by which academic institutions evaluate student progress in learning and success in achieving educational goals. Assessment of courses, programs, and University activities, involve among other things, a measure of student outcomes. Achievement may be assessed directly by measuring the changes, progress and/or gains that occur with students or indirectly, by using other indicators such as employment, employers’ satisfaction and the percent of students who continue their education in graduate or professional programs.

The purpose of assessment is to assist in improving learning, teaching and academic advising at the individual, course, program and institutional levels. Assessment should be on-going, consistently applied, and based on teaching and learning goals and objectives.  Each academic department/division/school or program should utilize information from assessment to analyze and improve the effectiveness of its academic programs in such areas as curriculum, academic advisement, faculty development and student services. Data from outcomes assessment will not be used for cross-program rankings or comparisons of individual faculty.

  • Educational Effectiveness and Assessment Council
    • Educational effectiveness includes student learning outcomes assessment, teaching and learning effectiveness as it relates to student learning outcomes, and the support and enhancement of Cal State LA as a learning organization.
  • College Assessment Coordinators
    • The Faculty Learning Community (FLC) for College Assessment Coordinators was established to facilitate assessment activities across Cal State LA’s colleges.
  • 4-Year Institutional Assessment Plan
    • Page breaks down the yearly assessment plan
    • PDF version
  • Learning Outcomes
    • Institutional
    • General Education
    • Graduate
    • Program
  • Assessment Resources
    • Developing Program Learning Outcomes
    • Assessment Resources
    • Assessment Reports
    • Institutional Assessment of Core Competencies
  • Events
    • Annual Assessment Faire
    • Assessment in 5 Easy Steps Workshop
    • Building Better Learning Outcomes Workshop
    • WSCUC Town Halls
    • Spring 2018 Assessment Workshops
  • Program Review, Assessment, and WSCUC Accreditation Staff

California State University, Northridge

Office of Academic Assessment and Program Review

  • A video about CSUN’s assessment process.
  • ScholarWorks Annual Assessment Reports Repository
    • Reports from 2007-08 to the present and can be fully accessed by the public
  • Academic Assessment Liaison Committee (AALC)

    • The AALC is comprised of faculty representatives from across the University who meet monthly during the regular semester to discuss assessment problems and process. Links to the committee’s charge and responsibilities are provided.
  • Quick Links are provided for Annual Assessment Reports
    • 2014-2015
    • 2015-2016
    • 2016-2017
    • AAPR A to Z
  • FAQs
  • Contact
    • Jack Solomon, Ph.D.
      Director, Office of Academic Assessment and Program Review
      Telephone: (818) 677-6712

 

 

California State University, Sacramento

Institutional Research Effectiveness, and Planning

On the main assessment page there are the following: Annual Assessment and Executive Summaries, Quick links to assessment plans, SharePoint Reports, Workshops, Faculty/Professional Learning Community, Contact information, and Materials and Handouts.  They list the elements of the Logic of Assessment and as well as Recent News.

  • Assessment Process
    • Academic Program Assessment
      • Assessment Plans
      • Unit Level Assessment
      • Annual Assessment Report
      • Program Review
    • Accountability
    • Accreditor Expectations
      • WASC
      • CSU Expectations
      • CSUS Expectations
    • Principles and Policies
      • University Assessment Policy Manual
      • 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
  • Annual Assessment
    • SharePoint Assessment Reports (2012-2018 reports and feedback)
    • Old Assessment Templates and Examples
  • Assessment Plans
    • 2016-17 Assessment Plans
    • 2015-16 Assessment Plans
  • Resources
  • University Assessment
    • University Learning Outcomes
    • Institutional Assessment Portfolios
    • Academic Program Assessment Tools
    • Assessment Strategies
  • Assessment Beyond Sacramento State
    • Accreditation
    • Other Campuses
    • Context for Assessment

California State University, San Marcos

Assessment Home

  • What is Assessment?
  • Why do we assess?
  • Who oversees assessment?
  • How does assessment inform program review and general education?

Annual Assessment

Annual assessments focus on Program Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs) as a way to determine student progress toward achieving program goals. Departments offering majors in all programs report annually on assessment activities. At the conclusion of each academic year, departments are asked to report the results of the PSLO assessments, and how these assessment findings lead to changes made to improve student learning.

Program Review

The purpose of the Program Review (PR) at CSUSM is to allow departments and programs to focus and reflect on the quality of student learning in their degree programs. Program Review is a two-year process that allows departments and programs to focus on the knowledge, skills and abilities expected of our graduates. These reviews center on carefully selected aspects of the degree programs and are anchored in systematically gathered evidence of student learning.

  • Schedule of Program Reviews
  • Resource Documents
  • Support Documents for Programs

Student Learning Outcomes

Learning happens at many levels on the Cal State San Marcos campus. Aligning all campus learning outcomes under the University’s Mission and Vision, along with the President’s Strategic Plan, provides a compass that helps keep all components of the campus moving in the same direction. The alignment organizational chart below is a helpful illustration of this idea.

  • By program
  • Campus-Wide Learning Outcomes
  • Mission, Vision, and Strategic Plan

Contact Information:  Regina Eisenbach, Dean, Academic Programs

California State University, Stanislaus

Office of Assessment

The Office of Assessment provides leadership, support, and coordination for university-wide assessment.

Mission Statement

The Office of Assessment provides vigorous and positive leadership in the coordination of university-wide efforts related to improving student learning and enhancing educational effectiveness through assessment.

There are quick links to the academic program review process, assessment planning and CampusLabs (CSUS login required). Additionally, the page lists the elements associated with the Purpose of assessment.

There are links to the following areas:

  • Faculty Fellow for Assessment
  • College Assessment Faculty Learning Communities
  • Assessment Planning
  • Principles of Assessment of Student Learning
  • Program Review
  • Collegiate Learning Assessment
  • General Education Assessment
  • Graduate Assessment
  • Assessment Spotlight Archice
  • Core Competencies FLCs

Contact information: Dr. Shawna Young, AVP for Academic Affairs at syoung@csustan.edu.

Calvin College (Michigan)

Calvin College (Michigan)

  • Overview of academic assessment.
    • The primary purpose of Calvin College is to promote student learning. Assessment is the process of collecting information about student learning in order to make decisions about how to improve it.
    • The assessment committee has found the book Assessment Clear and Simple (April 2010, Jossey-Bass) by Barbara Walvoord to be very helpful for understanding how to implement an effective assessment program efficiently.
    • The three steps of assessment are:
      1. Every program should have clear goals for student learning. (When student complete our program, they will be able to…)
      2. Programs should regularly gather evidence that students are meeting the goals.
      3. This evidence should be used for improving the program.
  • Goals for student learning
  • Evidence of student learning
  • Links to other online assessment resources.
  • Link for Academic Assessment – More Resources
    • Internal Resources
    • External Resources

Camden County College (New Jersey)

Institutional Effectiveness and Planning

Camden County College has implemented a documented, organized, and sustainable assessment process to evaluate and improve student learning.  Camden County College’s assessment process is sustained through the college-wide support and collaboration of faculty and administration.  This systematic and thorough process uses multiple qualitative and/or quantitative measures that maximize the use of existing data and information, that clearly and purposefully relate to the goals being assessed. Assessment activities are of sufficient quality so that results can be used with confidence to inform decisions; include direct evidence of student learning.

Indicators of Institutional Effectiveness

Quick Facts Fall 2016

College-wide Plans

One Year Graduate Follow-Up Survey

This survey gives Camden County College graduates an opportunity to offer feedback about their educational experiences at the College and provide information about their educational and occupational experiences once they leave.

2016 Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey Results 

IR&P Newsletter – Gives a snapshot of the characteristics of Camden County College students and updates on assessment activities:

Institutional Evaluation

Cameron University (Oklahoma)

 Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Assessment

  • Assessment Plans
  • Student Learning Outcomes Statements
  • Assessment Resources
  • Current Assessment Activities
  • Evidence of Student Learning
  • Use of Student Learning Evidence (not an active link)
  • Weave: Cameron University WEAVEonline user login.

General Education

  • GE SLOs
  • Assessment of General Education

NSSE Survey information

Camosun College (British Columbia, Canada)

Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (British Columbia, Canada)

The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) inspires and promotes innovation and excellence in curriculum, and all aspects of teaching and learning. Our education developers, instructional designers and technical staff support faculty in the development of their teaching practice, and in the development of curriculum, instructional materials, media and the appropriate use of technology.

  • Learning Opportunities
    • The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers a diverse range of learning opportunities related to teaching, learning, and educational leadership.
  • Curriculum
    • The curriculum development team helps faculty create and revise courses and programs to ensure the best student learning experience. We guide instructors through the program review and renewal process, resulting in purposeful and positive change. We also offer just-in-time curriculum consultation and support.
      • Curriculum Development
      • Program review and renewal
  • eLearning
    • The eLearning team helps the college community use web-based technology for an engaging and accessible learning experience. We also provide technical support and Desire 2 Learn (D2L) administration.
  • Faculty Development
    • The faculty development team helps faculty and instructors develop educational practices that put learning first. We provide learning opportunities and support for instructors, including workshops, resources, and community-building.
  • Strategic Initiatives
    • Strategic initiatives in the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning include indigenization, applied learning, accessible learning, and sustainability.

Cañada College (California)

Cañada College (California)

      • Overview of assessment at Cañada. (The SLOAC Philosophy is a pdf file.)
      • Institutional (general education) student learning outcomes (SLOs).
      • SLOs & assessments from individual academic programs and administrative & support units
      • Guidelines & FAQ for reporting course-level assessment results (The reporting directions is a Word document).
        • The list of program learning outcomes is a dynamic Excel template that requires (restricted) access to Cañada’s servers.
        • The TracDat assessment management system and the Sharepoint website are restricted to Cañada faculty & staff.
        • Information about program review, including (pdf files) individual academic, administrative, & support units’ annual plans. (Reporting templates are Word documents.)
      • Student services assessment reporting forms and handbook (Word documents).
      • Information about & from the assessment committee (Word documents).
      • Updates
        • Still to come: FAQ.
        • Faculty resolutions on outcomes assessment (Word document).
      • Events: Information about & from on-campus assessment-related events (pdf and audio-visual [swf] files, Word documents, links to other assessment resources).
      • Resources include
        • Information about using TracDat (pdf & Powerpoint files).
        • Handbook on writing learning outcomes (pdf file).
        • Presentation from an on-campus assessment summit (Powerpoint file).
        • Links to other assessment resources (pdf, Powerpoint, and audio-visual [swf] files, Word documents, links).

Carleton College (Minnesota)

Institutional Research and Assessment

  • Assessment Resources
    • Resources from Carleton College
    • General External Resources
    • Foundations with Interests in Assessment and Student Learning Outcomes
  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Six institutional learning outcomes, which are drawn from the academic goals section of the College’s Mission, form the basis for our assessment plan.  The purpose of our plan is to gauge the degree to which we are achieving these goals and to guide discussions of how we can enhance teaching and learning.
  • Mapping Outcomes to New Graduation Requirements
    • As we develop a plan to collect evidence on our six learning outcomes, are there courses in which we might expect to find useful student artifacts?  If future assessment efforts determine that we are not fully successful in delivering on one of our student learning outcomes, where in our curriculum might we want to consider making changes?  To answer questions like these it is useful to look for the intersection between our student learning outcomes and our graduation requirements.  This mapping, affirmed by the ECC on September 30, 2009, represents a starting point for such explorations.
  • Institutional Assessment Plan
    • The primary responsibility for designing and implementing the College’s institutional assessment plan falls to the Education and Curriculum Committee (ECC). In Fall 2009, the ECC endorsed a list of six institution-level student learning outcomes. Then in Spring and Fall 2010 the committee endorsed a draft assessment plan for subsequent discussions by the campus in Fall and Winter 2010. Based on comments and feedback from those discussions, the ECC revised and endorsed the plan in Winter 2011.The plan includes:
      • An assessment rubric for each student learning outcome that identifies and defines the dimensions that, when taken together, encompass what we mean by that outcome.
      • A 10-year plan that indicates when and how often we expect to collect, analyze, and discuss what evidence for each of the outcomes.

      Assessment Plan Detail
      Links to rubrics which define each outcome and detail on evidence we plan to collect for each.

      The Assessment Cycle
      This page describes the annual assessment cycle from data collection to outcome review to curricular response.

  • Department and Program Assessment
  • Annual Assessment Report Form (13 KB Word Document)
  • Survey Research
  • Outcomes
    • Post-Carleton Graduate and Professional Study
    • Employment Outcomes
  • Contact:  tjamison@carleton.edu

Carleton College (Minnesota)

Carleton College: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Minnesota)

      • Assessment resources
        • College-wide (general education) learning outcomes.
          • Assessment plan, with assessment methods and associated (pdf files) rubrics for each outcome.
          • Assessment cycle.
          • Learning outcomes mapped to graduation requirements.
          • Learning outcomes and assessment plans from individual academic departments & programs (pdf files).
            • Resources include:
              • FAQ.
              • Assessment roles & process.
              • Exercise materials from a conference presentation (pdf files).
              • Video of an assessment coordinators’ lunch.
              • The examples are restricted to Carleton faculty & staff.
        • Other resources (html pages, pdf files) include:
          • Presentations from on-campus workshops.
          • Information about Carleton assessment initiatives & projects.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Survey research and outcomes: Results from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE (mostly pdf files).

Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania)

 Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence

What Can I Learn about Assessment from this Website?

What is assessment?

Where do we want students to be at the end of a course or a program? And how will we know if they get there? Those two questions are at the heart of assessment.

Although there is a lot of buzz about assessment these days, assessment itself is nothing new. If you’ve ever given an exam, led a discussion, or assigned a project – and used what you discovered about student learning to refine your teaching – you’ve engaged in assessment. Assessment is simply the process of collecting information about student learning and performance to improve education.

At Carnegie Mellon, we believe that for assessment to be meaningful (not bean-counting or teaching to the test!) it must be done thoughtfully and systematically. We also believe it should be driven by faculty so that the information gathered:

  • Reflects the goals and values of particular disciplines
  • Helps instructors refine their teaching practices and grow as educators
  • Helps departments and programs refine their curriculum to prepare students for an evolving workplace

CONTACT US to talk with an Eberly colleague in person!

Case Western Reserve University (Ohio)

Outcome Assessment (Ohio)

* CWRU login required

Email: assessment@case.edu

Casper College (Wyoming)

Assessment @ Casper College

Assessment Annual Update Template (MS Word doc) (In process of revision)

Casper College Assessment Mission

As an accredited institution, Casper College is committed to implementing an assessment plan that will produce clear evidence of student learning. The institution will guide and support learning facilitators in the systematic documentation of student learning and will disseminate such documentation both to the college community and the community at large.
  • Institutional Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Feedback Reports
  • Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Rubrics
  • Casper College Survey Protocol
  • Trainings
  • More Information
    • Syllabi

Contact

Central Michigan University

Office of Curriculum and Assessment

​​Student Learning Assessment at CMU…
Student learning outcomes assessment at CMU is defined as the ongoing monitoring of the extent to which students are developing the knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitudes that are appropriate for graduates of their respective academic programs. Assessment of student learning assists programs in defining course goals and outcomes. Assessment data provides information for faculty development of strong programs, effective curriculum​, and innovative teaching. In addition, student learning outcomes assessment assists programs, departments, councils, colleges, and the university in accreditation by providing evidence of quality teaching and learning. —Policy on Student Learning Outcomes at CMU​
 

​Assessment Levels:  

  • ​Institution-Level Assessment: ​A depiction of student learning at the institutional level based primarily on data collected from institutional measures such as NSSE (National Study of Student Engagement), CIRP (Cooperative Institutional Research Program), etc.
  • Program-Level A​ssessment​: An ongoing monitoring of the extent to which students are developing the knowledge, skills, beliefs ​and attitudes that are appropriate for graduates of the respective academic programs.
  • Course-Level Assess​ment​: Formative and summative assessments that address student learning achievements of an entire class or the effectiveness of individual or multiple-section courses.
Assessment
  • Archived Assessment Retreats
  • Archived Assessment Council Minutes and Agendas
  • Archived Workshop Presentations
  • Assessment Committees
  • Assessment Plan/Report Log
  • Documents and Forms
  • Resources
  • WEAVE Online (WEAVEonline login needed)
  • 4th Annual Assessment Retreat

Provost’s Assessment Incentive Award

Contact: Mike Carson, Director of Curriculum and Assessment at carso1ma@cmich.edu

Chaffey College (California)

Chaffey College (California)

      • Welcome: Brief overview of assessment at Chaffey.
      • Monitoring report (pdf files unless otherwise noted)
        • Template & instructions for annual academic assessment monitoring report (Word & pdf versions of the template).
        • Diagram & guidelines for developing an SLO assessment process.
        • Matrix (template) & policy for administrative unit outcomes (AUO) assessment report.
        • Mapping matrix with Chaffey’s core competencies (general education outcomes).
        • Rubrics used to evaluate academic programs’ assessment plans.Must read: Overview of SLO reporting, with
        • a reporting template (Excel file), and
        • a matrix mapping program SLOs to Chaffey’s core competencies (Word document).
      • Planning resources were not available when last checked.
      • SLO Down online newsletter (pdf files).
      • Institutional research (pdf files)
        • Research briefs and presentations include results from student surveys.
        • SLO/AUO resources include:
          • Academic & administrative/support units’ assessment instruments and report briefs.
          • Other resources include:
            • Assessment guidelines & tips.
            • Assessment-plan evaluation rubrics.

Chapman University (California)

Learning at Chapman

  • Learning Outcomes
    • Program Learning Outcomes
    • General Education Outcomes
    • Student Life Outcomes
  • Assessment
    • Annual Learning Outcomes Assessment
    • Program Review
  • Institutional Data
    • Institutional DataMart

Program Review

Program review represents Chapman’s commitment to excellence in academic programs through cyclical review by external expert reviewers of educational effectiveness. Program review also provides an opportunity for each program to reflect on its contribution to the university and its strategic plan. The results of program review guide institutional planning, budgeting and decision-making.

Goals of Program Review

  1. Improve student learning
  2. Assess program quality and currency
  3. Reflect on the alignment of program goals and learning outcomes with institutional mission and strategic initiatives
  4. Provide data and evidence to support institutional planning, budgeting and decision-making

Learning Outcomes Assessment

Student learning outcomes represent the culminating knowledge, behaviors, skills or abilities that students get from an educational experience. At Chapman, student learning outcomes have been designed for:

General Education Learning Outcomes

The General Education program at Chapman prepares student to think critically and solve problems in a complex and dynamic world. The General Education inquiry areas are each designed to produce a learning outcome or ability consistent with our mission and strategic indicatives, making the Chapman experience truly unique.

Experiential Learning at Chapman

Experiential learning is a mutually reinforcing engagement of ideas and experience.  Moving beyond the classroom, you can develop new knowledge, apply expertise, contribute to communities and add to the learning of others. Through experiential learning, you can:

  • Explore Professional Areas
  • Develop Intercultural Skills
  • Earn Credits Toward Graduation
  • Satisfy Portions of the GE Global Citizen Cluster

Christopher Newport University (Virginia)

Christopher Newport University: Office of Assessment (Virginia)

      • Overview & philosophy of assessment at CNU.
        • Academic Programs
          • Every three years, the academic assessment liaisons from each department will submit a triennial assessment report to the Office of Assessment
        • Liberal Learning Core Curriculum
          • General education at Christopher Newport University occurs through the Liberal Learning Core Curriculum, which includes the Liberal Learning Foundations and the Areas of Inquiry. Assessment of the liberal learning core is guided by the Office of Assessment and the Liberal Learning Council.
        • Administrative and Student Support Service Units
          • Every year, the administrative and student support service units will submit an assessment report to the office of Assessment.
      • FAQs.
        • What is Assessment?
        • What does CNU expect with regard to students’ participation in assessment activities?
        • What do students get out of participating in assessment activities?
        • Who will know student’s test scores and survey responses?
      • Assessment resources
        • Assessment cycle with links to tips & guidelines for planning & implementing assessment processes (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents, html pages).
        • Information about WEAVEonline.
        • Contact information for assessment help.

City College of San Francisco (California)

City College of San Francisco (California)

City College strives to create a culture where outcomes assessment continually improves the quality of student learning and institutional effectiveness. Members of each department and program engage each other in the development and assessment of outcomes. Dialogue within and amongst departments and programs moves the college forward to meet the evolving needs of our students through instruction, curricula, programs, and services.

Outcomes are developed and assessed for the following areas:

Additional Assessment Information

  • Professional Development: Links to workshops from 2012-13 through 2017-18.
  • Resources
    • Mission
    • SLO Handbook
    • SLO Coordinators
    • Mapping Guidelines
  • Reports and Committees
    • Assessment Reporting
    • SLO Committee
    • AUO Assessment Team
    • Assessment Planning Team
    • SSO Assessment Team

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
Email: slocoordinator@ccsf.edu

Clark College (Washington)

Clark College: Outcomes Assessment (Washington)

The website has recently changes and some areas are still under construction.  Please click here to go to the Outcomes Assessment Toolbox (OAT).

Welcome to Outcomes Assessment at Clark College!

Outcomes Assessment (OA) is the collaborative, faculty-driven process of continuous improvement of student learning outcomes.

Our mission is to improve student learning through the college-wide practice of meaningful, sustainable assessment of learning outcomes.

We are responsible for:

  • Collaborating with faculty, staff, and administrators to design and implement assessment projects
  • Advising ongoing work in light of researched best practices
  • Hosting assessment-related professional development
  • Building a culture of evidence-based reflection on student learning

OA Information

Resources

FAQs

Outcomes Assessment Handbook

Professional Development/Events

If you have questions, please contact:   Joe Pitkin, OA Liaison, jpkitin@clark.edu

Clemson University (South Carolina)

Office for Institutional Assessment (South Carolina)

THE MISSION of the Office for Institutional Assessment is to support the University’s commitment to academic and operational excellence by facilitating a comprehensive, data-driven system of academic and administrative assessment.  In the pursuit of continuous improvement, the office consults with faculty, staff, administrators, and other stakeholders regarding recognized best practices, strategies, and standards. In addition, the office facilitates assessment activities in compliance with SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation.

  • Reporting Cycle
    • Planning and Reporting
      • Programs and units can manage their assessment initiatives using Weave®. This system supports program/unit-level planning, reporting and improvement, and enhances institutional reporting to SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation, program accreditation, and other accountability and improvement initiatives.  It also provides expanded capabilities in linking assessment activities to larger institutional perspectives.
      • Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to Clemson faculty & staff.
  • Surveys and Indirect Measures
    • Current Institutional Surveys
    • Analysis
    • Design and Distribution
    • Focus Groups
    • Past Results
    • Survey Calendar
  • Resources
    • Accreditation
    • Assessment
    • Surveys and Indirect Measures
  • Contact us: assessment@clemson.edu

Cleveland State University (Ohio)

Office of Student Learning Assessment

Welcome to the Office of Student Learning Assessment

Housed in the Office of Academic Planning, the Office of Student Learning Assessment coordinates all assessment efforts and initiatives across Cleveland State University’s campuses. Our expressed mission is to identify and promote appropriate ways in which to engage the campus community in a transformative and highly participative assessment culture. With this in mind, navigate our Web site by using the tools on the Menu to the right. Also, we would like to receive your feedback and suggestions for improvement by using the contact information at the bottom of the Menu.

Office of Student Learning Assessment Mission Statement

Grounded in the CSU Mission Statement, the Office of Student Learning Assessment is designed to promote excellence in student learning outcomes of all academic programs and divisions as well as student support services units, centers, and offices. Central to our beliefs and practices is sustaining a systematic and systemic collection of student learning assessment data used to engage the campus community in reflection and action on continuous program improvement. The overarching goals are as follows: a) strengthening the quality of student learning outcomes, reflective of the development of 21st-century skills needed to compete in an increasingly diverse global economy; b) enhance institutional status and recognition; c) boost enrollment; and d) capitalize on the institution’s capacity to provide students with distinctive programs designed to help them to lead productive lives.

News and Updates

Student Learning Assessment

Coastal Carolina University (South Carolina)

Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Analysis (South Carolina)

Assessment –  Supports all campus units in identifying areas for continuous improvement.  Assists and supports faculty and departments in ongoing efforts to improve learning outcomes including help with research design, data analysis, survey construction and administration.

The Assessment group provides institutional-level information used to facilitate decision-making, support the University’s mission, and inform internal and external constituencies.

  • Higher Education Accountability Reporting
    • The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education requires the University to submit an annual accountability report.
  • Institutional Research Assessment and Analysis
    • The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education collects and reports on institutional effectiveness information from all public institutions in the state. Reporting areas include, but are not limited to assessment, sponsored research, and student pass rates on professional exams.
  • Student Achievement
    • Academic Awards
    • Degrees Awarded
    • Degree Inventory
    • Retention and Graduation Rates
  • Surveys
    • Across the University many people use data in assessment, research, and decision-making. Surveys are often used as a method for collecting the information needed for these activities.
  • TEAL Online
    • TEAL Online is a comprehensive repository system for collecting assessment data, establishing information autoflow and generating reflective reports.
  • University-Wide Assessment Committees
    • The University-Wide Assessment Report is an overview of Coastal Carolina University’s systematic and ongoing process of collecting information for improving the overall effectiveness of all units across campus.
  • VSA (College Portrait)
    • A compilation of basic, comparable information from over 300 public colleges and universities. Information collected includes characteristics of students and faculty, admissions requirements, popular majors, average class sizes, campus safety, the future plans of graduates. The College Portrait is an initiative by the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA).

Contact: Institutional Research, Assessment & Analysis Staff

 

Cochise College (Arizona)

Cochise College: Assessment

The above link takes you to Instruction web page.  Click on the Learning Improvement tab to be directed to the information regarding planning and implementation of Student and Institutional Learning Outcomes Assessment.

  • Learning Outcomes Statement
    • List of the student learning outcome statements that clearly state the expected knowledge skills, attitudes, competencies, and habits of mind that students are expected to acquire at Cochise College upon completion of a degree.
  • Learning Improvement at Cochise College
    • Cochise College is committed to continuous improvement of its students’ learning. The learning improvement process at Cochise College provides evidence of how well the college is meeting its objectives, helps identify areas of improvement, and allows improvements to be implemented. This is achieved by investigating current levels of learning, experimenting with ways to improve learning, and using the experimentation results to integrate successful strategies and actions for improving student learning into the college’s curriculum or procedures.
    • The Learning Improvement Committee promotes a culture of continuous improvement at Cochise College by facilitating learning improvement processes at the departmental, program, and institutional levels. The Learning Improvement Committee works to ensure that these processes involve self-reflection, identification of strategies for improvement of learning, and implementation of those strategies. The committee also works to connect these processes to strategic planning and institutional effectiveness.
  • Learning Improvement Program
  • Learning Improvement Evidence
    • Assessment History (PDF)
    • Academy of Assessment for Student Learning (PDF)
    • CLIP System checklist (PDF)
    • College Units Conducting Assessment Projects (PDF)
  • Learning Information to Students
    • Your time and experiences at Cochise College should be viewed as a picture of educational accomplishment. Here at Cochise College we identify this picture as student learning outcomes for the Associate Degree Experience.

Coconino Community College (Arizona)

Coconino Community College: Assessment 

 

College of Charleston (South Carolina)

College of Charleston: Office for Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning (South Carolina)

  • Assessment Guide/Resources
  • Assessment Results
    • Annual Institutional Effectiveness Reports
    • Assessment Report Summaries
    • Academic Assessment
    • Administrative Assessment
    • CHE Institutional Effectiveness Reports
  • Assessment Rubrics
    • Rubric for Assessment Plan/Results Review
  • ETS Proficiency Profile
    • Current ETS Proficiency Profile Results
    • Previous Resulsts
  • Compliance Assist
    • Compliance Assist is a web-based tool for documenting, tracking, and reporting unit strategic planning and assessment efforts.
    • Resources for Assessment
    • Resources for Strategic Planning
  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Listed by Catalog Year and by school.
  • Surveys
  • Contact

 

College of San Mateo (California)

College of San Mateo (California)

On the main page, CSM lists what the visitor will find related to SLOs.

College of Southern Nevada

College of Southern Nevada: Institutional Assessment & Improvement

  • Office of Assessment Mission
  • Institutional Assessment and Improvement Goal
  • Questions about assessment planning and reporting, contact:

Office of Assessment

  • The CSN Office of Assessment is committed to promoting learner-centered assessment practices to assure that all CSN programs are conducting assessment activities and generating evidence to support CSN’s mission and vision. By creating, supporting, and sustaining a culture of assessment, CSN commits to continuous intentional improvement to enhance student success.

Academic Assessment – Course, Program, and General Education

  • Academic Assessment Planning
  • Academic Assessment Reporting
  • General Education Assessment

Academic Support Programs Assessment

  • Academic Support Programs Assessment Planning and Reporting

Student Affairs and Administrative Services Assessment 

  • Student Affairs and Administrative Services Assessment Planning and Reporting

Assessment Forms

  • Academic Programs Assessment Planning & Reporting Forms
    • Academic Program Three Year Assessment Plan v.2017
    • Annual Academic Program Assessment Reporting Form v.2017
  • Curriculum Mapping
    • Curriculum Map Template
    • Example of Completed Curriculum Map
    • Overview of Curriculum Mapping Power Point

Assessment Resources

Student Learning Outcome and Performance Outcome Achievement

Core Theme Achievement

  • Student Success
  • Community Connection and Inclusion
  • Quality
  • Institutional Stewardship

College of William & Mary (Virginia)

College of William & Mary: Office of Institutional Accreditation & Effectiveness (Virginia)

  • Assessirng General Education
    • COLL 100
    • COLL 200
    • COLL 150
    • COLL 300 Pilot
    • COLL 400 Pilot
  • Assessment Steering Committee
    • ASC Members
    • GER Course Portfolio Website
  • Digital Measures
    • DMS ActivityInsight for Faculty
    • Login Page
    • Administrative Contacts
    • User’s Guide and Resources
  • Institutional Change (IC)
    • IC Form
    • IC Timeline
    • IC Resource Center
  • Program Reviews
    • Program Review Process
  • Resources
    • Sites Related to Institutional Accreditation and the Assessment of Higher Education
  • Contact IAE

College of Wooster (Ohio)

College of Wooster Assessment (Ohio)

      • Learning Goals
      • WGSS IS Rubric for Assessment (pdf)
      • Student Portfolio Requirements (pdf)
      • Seminar Assessment (pdf)
      • Portfolio Assessment Form (pdf)

Colorado College

Colorado College

      • What is assessment?
        • FAQ.
      • How to assess learning
        • Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing assessment processes.
        • Some pages include links to Word documents.
        • The page on writing a report includes the assessment committee’s evaluation rubric.
      • Assessment at CC
        • General education (critical perspectives) assessment.
        • Still to come: CC assessment success stories.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Colorado Mesa University

Colorado Mesa University

      • Institution-wide learning outcomes.
      • The campus assessment update overviews assessment methods used at CMU.
        • The previous update is a pdf file.
      • Committee reports (pdf files) include summaries of:
        • Assessment processes & results in (some) academic programs.
          • The general education report include CMU’s general education outcomes.
        • NSSE results.
      • The assessment committee minutes and general information are pdf files; forms for reporting program & general education assessment plans & results are Word documents.
      • The institutional research site has survey reports, including NSSE, CCSSE, & FSSE results (pdf files)
      • Information about periodic academic program review (pdf files).
        • The manual indicates how learning outcomes assessment is incorporated into program review.
        • Review reports for individual academic programs
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Colorado School of Mines

Colorado School of Mines

      • FAQ.
      • Profile of the CSM graduate (general education learning goals) and graduate program general objectives/outcomes (pdf files).
      • Core (general education) curriculum
        • Description of CSM’s core curriculum (pdf file).
        • ABET criteria mapped to CSM’s general education learning goals and core courses (Word documents).
        • Methods used to assess the core as a whole and individual core courses (pdf files).
        • Article on engineering education from the National Academy of Engineering (pdf files).
      • Guidelines for creating & implementing undergraduate and graduate program assessment plans, with reporting templates, best practice examples, and the assessment committee’s evaluation rubric (Word documents, pdf files).
      • How do I…? tips & guidelines, including:
        • Glossary (Word document).
        • Information about assessment mini-grants (Word documents).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • More links to other assessment resources.

Colorado State University

Colorado State University

  • Symposium Presentations
  • Information from CSU’s PRISM (Program Improvement Research) database of projects, methods, and results. Select a pathway or a question for links to information about:
  • University assessment & continuous improvement policies & practices.
  • Academic and administrative units’ goals, outcomes, & assessment methods
  • Assessment results and impacts.
  • Links go to database search screens, to HTML pages, and to pdf and Powerpoint files. There’s lots of detail, but you have to search for it.
  • Division of Student Affairs
    • The Division of Student Affairs employs SKYfactor as a vehicle to conduct program assessment. It is a website where program assessments are professionally developed, validated, and rooted in research standards. You can request a demonstration from the site.
    • Assessment/Research Results (requires eID authentication)
    • Assessment and Research Symposium (2008-2013)

Columbia College (Missouri)

Columbia College (Missouri)

      • Assessment timeline.
      • Institutional-level assessment
        • Overview.
        • Institutional learning goals (general education outcomes).
        • Calendar.
        • Annual reports (pdf files).
      • Program-level assessment
        • Overview.
        • General education assessment: MAPP/Proficiency Profile assessment reports (pdf files)
        • Major Field Test reports and assessment reports from individual academic departments (pdf files).
      • Course-level assessment
        • Overview.
        • Syllabi for individual courses include learning outcomes.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Columbia College Chicago (Illinois)

Columbia College Chicago (Illinois)

      • Assessment of student learning
        • Assessment at Columbia
          • Reporting template. Individual programs’ assessment reports are restricted to CCC faculty & staff.
          • General education outcomes (scroll down on the core curriculum page) and examples of assessment methods & results.
          • Support includes examples of developing a program assessment process and of research on student evaluations (pdf files).
          • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about the Columbia Assessment Manager online tool (access to the tool itself is restricted to CCC faculty & staff).
      • Information about periodic program review and student course evaluations.
      • Reports from assessment projects (pdf files).

Columbia University (New York)

Columbia University

Student learning is at the heart of each of Columbia University’s educational programs. Understanding how well students are learning through meaningful assessment methods is central to maintaining the quality of our educational offerings. As part of Columbia’s commitment to best practices in this realm, the Provost’s Office has developed a library of resources and tools to support learning outcomes assessment and faculty efforts in this area. These efforts also serve to cross-pollinate ideas and techniques that work best within the Columbia community, and meet state, federal, and accrediting body requirements.

  • Program Plan Template and Instructions
  • dedicated to learning outcomes (password protected, contact Sonia Gugga at ssg34@columbia.edu for access).
  • Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (html files)
  • Learning Outcomes Assessment Information for Developing Program Plans (pdf file).
  • Links to other assessment resources.

Columbus State Community College (Ohio)

Columbus State Community College (Ohio)

      • CSCC assessment policy, procedure, and handbook (pdf files).
      • General education outcomes & (Word documents) associated rubrics.
      • Individual degree programs’ assessment reports (pdf files).
      • Resources
        • Assessment at Columbus State
          • Assessment plan (Word document).
          • Assessment methods, definitions, & checklists (pdf files).
          • NILOA’s Down and In survey report.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • CCSSE & CCFSSE results (pdf files).
      • Reporting form for assessment plans & results (pilot version, Word document).
      • Roles of various assessment committees. Committee minutes are mostly Word documents.

Columbus State University (Georgia)

Columbus State University: Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (Georgia)

      • Annual assessment process and report format for academic & support units (pdf file).
      • Assessment plans & reports from individual academic & support units (pdf files).
      • Results from student surveys and standardized instruments including CAAP and NSSE (pdf files).
      • Institutional progress reports included assessment overviews as well as institutional research data (pdf files).
      • Information about periodic program review (pdf & Excel files, Word documents). Review reports are restricted to CSU faculty & staff.

Community College of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania)

Community College of Allegheny County: Office of Planning & Institutional Research (Pennsylvania)

      • CCAC’s assessment plan (pdf file).
      • Student learning assessment
        • Overview.
        • General education goals (outcomes) and assessment reports (pdf files).
        • Program assessment (pdf files, Word documents)
          • Assessment guide and worksheet.
          • Reporting form & checklist for program assessment plans.
          • Review form & checklist for program assessment results.
        • Classroom assessment reporting form & guidelines (Word document, pdf files).
        • Tools include
          • an assessment handbook (pdf file).
          • a toolkit with guidelines for various assessment methods (pdf, Excel & Powerpoint files).
          • a worksheet for including assessment experiences in faculty members’ teaching portfolios (Word document).
          • a newsletter (Word documents) and tip of the month pages (pdf files).
        • Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Institutional assessment
        • Information about & from the assessment planning committee, including reports, presentations, and meeting notes (pdf files).
        • Links to Middle States resources.
        • Recommended readings.
      • Student development services assessment
        • Program assessment process and reporting templates (Word documents).
        • On-campus presentation for SDS staff (Powerpoint file).
        • Tools include guidelines for various assessment methods (pdf files, Word document).
        • CCSSE results (Excel files).
      • TracDat manual (pdf file; TracDat access is restricted to CCAC faculty & staff).

Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)

Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)

      • CCBC’s assessment philosophy. The learning outcomes assessment booklet (pdf file) is CCBC’s assessment handbook.
      • General education assessment
        • Overview.
        • GREAT (general education assessment team) checklist and rubric for assessment projects, and some project reports (pdf files).
        • MAPP (Proficiency Profile) results (pdf file).
      • Resources for and examples of course assessment projects (pdf files).
      • Overview of and resources for program assessment projects for program and core-competency outcomes, and reports from some projects (pdf files).
      • Institution assessment includes an overview and a report on assessment of a faculty development project (pdf file).
      • LOA resources on classroom processes to improve learning (pdf files).
      • Information about and from CCBC’s assessment and general-education committees (mostly pdf files).

Community College of Rhode Island

Community College of Rhode Island: Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee

      • Information about & from the committee (html pages, Word documents).
      • Resources include:
        • Program assessment reporting form (Word document).
        • On-campus Powerpoint presentations about assessment.
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Concordia College (Minnesota)

Concordia College: Office of Assessment (Minnesota)

      • About assessment at Concordia.
      • Assessment newsletter (pdf files).
      • Information about & from the assessment committee.
        • The assessment guide (handbook) includes links to other resources (pdf file).

Cornell University (New York)

Cornell University, Office of the Provost

Additional information.

  • What Do Students Already Know? (html files)- Information and resources discussing methods to assess students’ background knowledge.
  • Measuring Student Learning (html and pdf files)-Information on numerous methods to assess student learning.
  • Using Rubrics (html and pdf files)-Information on why to use rubrics, development of rubrics, incorporating rubrics in a course, and other online rubric resources.
  • Asking Good Test Questions (html files)-Information regarding what are good test questions, how to develop good test questions, and additional resources (pdf file).
  • Self-Assessment
    * What is self-assessment?
    * Why employ self-assessment?
    * How can you incorporate self-assessment?
    * What else should you consider when incorporating self-assessment?
    * Resources for Incorporating Self-Assessment (html files).
  • Peer Assessment (html files)
    * What is peer-assessment?
    * Theories of active learning (html file)
    * Why employ peer assessment?
    * How can you incorporate peer-assessment? (html files (rubrics and Blackboard) included in this section)
    * What else should you consider when incorporating peer-assessment?
    * Resources for Incorporating Peer Assessment (html and pdf files)
  • Assessment Resources
    * Strategies for Assessing Students (html files)
    * Developing a Plan: Assessment Guide for Courses and Programs
    – Course-Level Assessment Guide for Instructors
    – Program-Level Assessment Guide for Administrators
    – Example of assessment plans (html files)
    * Developing a Plan: Assessment Resources at the Graduate Level (html and pdf files)
    * CTE Working Sessions on Learning Outcomes and Assessment (html file)
  • Overview of assessment.
  • Putting it into practice: Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing assessment processes, with links to examples & other resources.
  • FAQ, with links to other resources.
  • Glossary.
  • University-wide (general education) and college-level learning outcomes.
  • From the core assessment committee: Framework & guidelines for department-level & general education assessment. (Examples for the Knight Institute’s interdisciplinary courses are pdf files.)
  • The Institutional Research & Planning site includes
    • Reports from surveys of students, faculty, staff, & parents (pdf files).
    • Information about periodic academic program review.

Crafton Hills College (California)

Crafton Hills College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research & Planning (California)

      • Institutional effectiveness
        • Student learning outcomes (pdf files unless indicated otherwise).
          • Presentation (Powerpoint file) and status report about assessment at CHC.
          • Assessment plan.
          • General education and institutional learning outcomes and a proposal presentation about institutional learning outcomes.
            • Assessment reports for some institutional learning outcomes (ILOs).
          • Guides, tips, & examples for developing & implementing assessment processes.
          • SLO website
            • Overview of SLOs & assessment.
            • Training presentations: Guides, tips, & examples for developing student learning outcomes.
            • Steps in developing & implementing SLOs & assessment processes (html pages with links to pdf & other resources).
            • Updates on the status of assessment planning & implementation in CHC academic programs (Excel files).
          • Reports from
            • Assessment of academic, student support, & administrative programs. What’s there varies from program to program.
            • Course-level assessment.
          • Online & Word forms for assessment reporting. (Please do not enter anything into the online form.)
          • Access to the e-Lumen assessment management system is restricted to CHC faculty & staff.
        • Surveys: An online form for for mapping course learning outcomes to CHC’s institutional learning outcomes. (Please do not enter anything into this form.)
      • Information about periodic program review (mostly pdf files).
      • Research briefs & reports: Student services and satisfaction surveys include assessment-related reports (pdf files).

Dabney S. Lancaster Community College (Virginia)

Dabney S. Lancaster Community College: Institutional Effectiveness Office (Virginia)

      • Resources on assessment reports (Powerpoint presentations & Word documents)
      • Administrative unit tips on report writing
      • Resources include workshop handouts and links to other assessment resources.

Daemen College (New York)

Daemen College: Office of Assessment (New York)

      • Overview of assessment at Daemen.
        • About Daemen’s core curriculum and core competencies (general education outcomes).
      • Core assessment reports include methods for & results from assessment of the core competencies (Word documents, Powerpoint & Excel files).
      • Reporting templates for academic department and administrative unit assessment (Word documents). Reports, learning goal alignment maps, and program review documents are restricted to Daemen faculty & staff.
      • About assessment-related workshops and on-campus events.
      • Resources include workshop handouts (Powerpoint presentations & Word documents) and links to other assessment resources.

Dalton State College (Georgia)

Dalton State College: Office of Institutional Research & Planning (Georgia)

      • Assessment & effectiveness includes information about assessment at DSC (most links are to pdf files):
        • Links to academic and administrative & support departments’ websites.
        • Information about periodic academic program review.
        • Institutional effectiveness (scroll down the alphabetical list)
          • Note: The institutional effectiveness plan overviews DSC’s assessment processes.
          • Assessment methods used by DSC academic programs, including general education learning outcomes & assessment methods. Also see planning and evaluation of educational programs.
          • Assessment reports from individual academic and administrative & support units include program outcomes; some include assessment results.
          • Course and program learning outcomes.
          • College-level competencies and general education outcomes and assessment plan & methods. General education assessment results were not available when last checked.
        • CAAP (general-education assessment) results.
        • Results from surveys of students, alumni, employers, faculty, staff (pdf files).
      • Institutional data has NSSE & FSSE results.
      • Links to other assessment resources (this page) and other resources.

Danville Area Community College (Illinois)

Danville Area Community College: Institutional Effectiveness/Assessment of Student Learning Team (Illinois)

      • Forms & timelines (mostly Word documents)
        • Assessment timeline & responsibilities.
        • Report forms & program-level example.
        • Departmental assessment planning forms & example.
        • General education outcomes and a planning matrix & sample assessments.
        • Examples of course matrices.
      • Assessment champions for each academic division and (Word document) a chart of DACC’s assessment flow & responsibilities.
      • Tips & guidelines for getting started with program assessment.
      • Annual reports (Word documents).
      • Information about & from the assessment team/committee (committee minutes are pdf files).
      • Toolbox: Links to other assessment resources.

Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)

Dartmouth College: Office of Institutional Research (New Hampshire)

      • Assessment resources: Some pages include presentations and worksheets (pdf files and Word documents) and links to other Dartmouth assessment resources.
        • Assessment glossary.
        • Designing assessment plans and developing outcomes statements.
        • Methodology toolkits.
        • Developing surveys.
        • Reporting assessment results.
      • Survey research and reports includes results from student satisfaction surveys (pdf files).

Del Mar College (Texas)

Del Mar College: STRATEGIC PLANNING, INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND ASSESSMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH (Texas)

      • Assessment manual (handbook, pdf file).
      • Assessment resources
        • DMC guidelines & tips
          • Guidelines on (pdf files):
          • Authentic assessment,
          • Writing learning outcomes,
          • Using rubrics for grading, and
          • Using assessment results.
        • Material from on-campus workshops for student learning outcomes (pdf file) and for administrative & support units (Powerpoint files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Guidelines for WEAVEonline (WEAVE access is restricted to DMC faculty & staff).
      • Brief information about assessment committees.
      • CCSSE & CCFSSE results (pdf files).
      • Information about periodic program review (pdf files).

Delaware Technical & Community College

Delaware Technical & Community College

      • Overview of assessment processess at DTCC.
      • Assessment processes for (pdf files):
        • General education outcomes.
        • Academic program units.
        • Educational support units.

Delta College (Michigan)

Delta College (Michigan)

      • Assessment plan (pdf file).
      • Tips for developing & implementing assessment (pdf files).
      • General education
        • Themes are general education learning outcomes.
      • Some academic programs’ learning outcomes (pdf files).
      • Glossary, and information about the assessment committee (pdf files).

DePaul University (Illinois)

DePaul University: Office for Teaching, Learning & Assessment (Illinois)

      • Overview of assessment at DePaul.
      • Overviews of assessing learning at the classroom, program and college levels.
      • Learning goals and outcomes
        • University-wide (general education) goals.
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes (Word documents, pdf files).
        • Tips & resources for curriculum mapping.
      • Template (Word document) and video tutorial for assessment reports, and a university-level summary of assessment results (pdf file). Reports from individual units are restricted to DePaul faculty & staff.
      • Links to other assessment resources. DePaul’s Teaching Commons has additional information about rubrics.
      • Overview of student affairs assessment at DePaul..

DePauw University (Indiana)

DePauw University (Indiana)

      • Guidelines for departmental review include outcomes assessment requirements.
      • The Office of Institutional Research reports NSSE & FSSE results (Excel & pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Diablo Valley College (California)

Diablo Valley College (California)

      • WEBSLOS
        • Searchable database of:
          • Course and program SLOs (The alignment matrices [curriculum maps] also show each program’s overall learning outcomes.)
          • Assessment status reports.
          • Assessment schedule & calendar (when various courses are assessed).
          • The course and program assessment history PDFs are restricted to DVC faculty & staff.
          • The alignment matrices (curriculum maps) show each program’s overall learning outcomes.
          • SLO database: Online form for submitting course- & program-level SLOs and assessment results (please do not enter anything into these forms!)
            • The left-hand menu on the main page also has links to this form.
      • Another link to the searchable database of course and program-level SLOs.
      • The left-hand menu has links to the online submission form and restricted links to forms for the history PDFs.

Dixie State University (Utah)

Dixie State University Academic Assessment

The mission of the Office of Academic Assessment is to empower the campus community -which includes faculty, staff, administration- and students, with the skills and resources to assess student learning and work toward continuous improvement.

The principles guiding DSU’s assessment work include:

  • Outcome statements drive what and how student learning is assessed
  • Academic success occurs over time inside and outside the classroom
  • Improving student outcomes includes an analysis of the whole student experience (e.g., prior knowledge, curricula, teaching)
  • Assessment is a continual process towards improvement
  • Student learning is a campus-wide responsibility, and therefore assessment is a collaborative effort
  • Assessment is not only about data collection, but more importantly, it includes answering questions stakeholders care about

Helpful Resources

Assessment Management System

Assessment Planning and Reporting

Assessment Reports

Assessment Conferences

Quick Links

Contact Information

  • jasmine@dixie.edu; Randy Jasmine, Chair-English, Chair-Faculty Senate Academic Assessment Committee.

Doña Ana Community College (New Mexico)

Doña Ana Community College (New Mexico)

      • Toolbox:
        • Assessment Primer (handbook, pdf file).
        • Reporting templates for assessment plans & results, and rubric for evaluating assessment plans (Word documents).
        • Brief language of assessment glossary (Word document).
        • Rubrics for assessing general education outcomes (Word documents).
        • Worksheet for writing assessment goals and guidelines for creating writing assignments and student assessment of assignments (Word documents).
      • Assessment plans and reports from individual academic programs (Word documents, pdf files).
      • General education assessment plan and reports and some course-based common core reports to the New Mexico Department of Higher Education (Word & rtf documents, pdf files).
      • Assessment newsletter (pdf files).
      • Presentations on program assessment from (some) DACC assessment teas (Powerpoint files).
      • Information about the assessment committee.

Duke University (North Carolina)

Duke University: Office of Institutional Research (North Carolina)

      • Information about university committees on academic and educational & administrative support. (The memo from the provost and vice provost is a pdf file.)
        • Presentations from the Committee on Educational & Administrative Support (CAEAS) include (pdf files)
          • training about assessment for educational & administrative support units,
          • a calendar, and
          • the committee’s rubric for evaluating assessment plans & reports.
      • Guidelines (pdf file) & FAQs for WEAVEonline. Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to Duke faculty & staff.
      • Information about and links to online surveys of students, parents, & alumni. (Please do not enter anything into these forms.)
      • Most of the information on the Office of Assessment, Trinity College site deals with student evaluation of courses & faculty. Reports accessible to the public are pdf files.
        • The site also includes information about external sources of assessment-related grants & funding, and links to other assessment resources.
        • The FAQ on the policies and procedures page includes some information about assessment methods other than course evaluation.

East Carolina University (North Carolina)

East Carolina University: Office of Institutional Planning, Assessment and Research (North Carolina)

      • Assessment at ECU
        • Overview of the assessment process.
      • For academic units
        • Annual assessment cycle.
        • Overview of assessment reporting process (pdf documents).
        • Reference guides (template) for assessment reporting and to TracDat reports (pdf files).
        • Global awareness outcomes (pdf file) and reporting template for leadership outcomes (Word document).
      • Assessment cycle and (pdf files) process overview for academic & student support units.
      • Assessment resources
        • The overall institutional effectiveness & assessment process (pdf file).
        • Assessment guidebooks (handbooks) for educational and support units (Word documents).
        • From the assessment review committee
          • Training presentation (Powerpoint file).
          • Annual report template (Powerpoint file).
          • Review rubrics for annual reports (Word documents).
        • Sample assessment plans from ECU academic programs (pdf files).
        • Recommended readings and links to other resources.
        • Information about TracDat & iWebfolio (Word document, pdf file).
      • Information about & from assessment committees (minutes are pdf files).
      • Results from surveys of students & faculty, including NSSE/FSSE (results are pdf files).
      • Information from ECU’s assessment day presentations (mostly Powerpoint files).
      • About periodic academic program review (pdf files).

East Central University (Oklahoma)

East Central University: Center for Assessment and Institutional Research (Oklahoma)

      • ECU’s assessment policy.
      • Faculty guide (FAQ & assessment principles, pdf file).
      • The annual assessment reports include general education outcomes & CAAP results, and summaries of individual degree programs’ assessment methods, results, & impacts (pdf files).
      • The institutional research page has results from surveys of graduating students & alumni (pdf files).

East Georgia State College

East Georgia State College: Office of Institutional Research and Planning

      • Assessment resources
        • General education learning competencies & outcomes (pdf file).
        • Course level template for reporting assessment of general education outcomes (Word documents).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Surveys includes results from CCSSE and other student surveys (pdf files.)
      • SACSCOC accreditation includes EGSC’s quality enhancement plan (QEP, pdf file) and critical thinking rubric (Word document).

East Stroudsburg University (Pennsylvania)

East Stroudsburg University

http://www.esu.edu/faculty_staff/oaa/resources.cfm

Eastern Connecticut State University

Eastern Connecticut State University: University Assessment Committee

      • Overview of assessment and FAQ.
      • Assessment plan (Word document).
      • Assessment methods used by ECSU academic departments.
      • Publications
        • Results from student surveys (pdf files).
        • ECSU’s College Portrait (pdf file).
      • On-campus and regional assessment-related events.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois University

      • University assessment plan (pdf file).
      • Information from & about the assessment committee (CASL; minutes and full reports are Word documents, executive summaries are pdf files).
      • Process for assessment in the major:
        • Individual departments’ assessment plans and reports, and summary form for submitting plans/reports (mostly Word documents).
        • Undergraduate and graduate assessment reports summarize assessment activities (recent reports ate Word documents; older ones are pdf files).
      • Assessment requirements for graduate degree programs (pdf file).
      • On-line assessment newsletter (pdf files).
      • General education goals and information about EIU’s electronic writing portfolio, speaking across the curriculum program, and use of the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. (The goals are listed near the top of the EIU assessment home page. Some of the information about specific projects is in pdf files; some is in Word or rtf documents.)
      • Alumni survey results (Word documents).
      • Information about the Provost’s Award for academic departments’ achievement in academic assessment (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Kentucky University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

      • Note: Documents are pdf files unless otherwise indicated.
      • Assessment of student learning
        • Snapshot, required components, and (html page) minimum requirements of the degree program assessment process.
          • The degree program assessment page also has instructions for using TracDat. TracDat access is restricted to EKU faculty & staff.
        • Guidelines and rubrics for general education assessment (mostly Word documents).
        • Information about assessment components of EKU’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) was not available when last checked.
      • University level assessment: NSSE & CAAP results and information about how EKU uses them.
      • Information from the University Assessment Committee.
      • Exemplars from EKU colleges and academic programs.
      • More information about using TracDat.
      • Overview of periodic academic program review (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
      • Assurance of Learning Day resources include:presentations on developing an assessment plan (mostly pdf files).
      • Resources include some guidelines & tips for developing assessment processes.
      • The Institutional Research page includes results from surveys of students, alumni, & faculty (pdf files), and links to currently active online surveys (please do not enter data into these forms).

Eastern Mennonite University (Virginia)

Eastern Mennonite University

Institutional Research and Effectiveness

The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness collects, analyzes, and reports data about the university to support decision-making, planning and effectiveness. The office coordinates and supports outcomes assessment efforts in all academic, educational support and administrative units of the university. We value and strive for accuracy, integrity and timeliness.

Annual Institutional Effectiveness Reports (AIER)

EMU’s AIER framework merges departmental assessment, end-of-the-year reporting, and planning into one process with a clear focus on mission and improvement of programs and services.

Web-Based Surveys

The institutional research and effectiveness office supports a wide variety of web-based surveys for the campus. If you are planning a survey, visit our Survey Guidelines and Resources. If your survey is for academic research purposes, be sure to also visit EMU’s Institutional Review Board website first!

Data and Reports

The IR&E Office publishes a variety of reports and data sets for the public, including the EMUFactbook and Common Data Set. We are currently in the process of updating and revising the various publicly available resources.

IR&E email: institutionalresearch@emu.edu

 

 

Eastern New Mexico University

Eastern New Mexico University

      • Information for students, parents, and community (pdf files)
        • The strategic plans include information about assessment at ENMU.
        • Assessment methods & results from general education core courses.
        • Results from student surveys and standardized assessments, including NSSE, MAPP, & ICAT (critical thinking).
      • Information for faculty and staff is restricted to ENMU employees. (Note: non-ENMU viewers may occasionally find this section of the site available, but usually it is not.)

Eastern Oregon University

Eastern Oregon University

      • University learning outcome report.
      • Academic program assessment: Individual programs’ assessment plans & results (pdf files, internal links are to Word documents).
      • General education outcomes, assessment plans, & reports (pdf files, Word documents). Guidelines for general education curriculum (GEC) analysis & data use (pdf file).
      • Degree program assessment reporting template (Word document).
      • Curriculum map of program and general education learning outcomes (pdf file).
      • TracDat user guide. TracDat access is restricted to EOU faculty & staff.

Eastern University (Pennsylvania)

Eastern University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research and Assessment (Pennsylvania)

      • University assessment plan (pdf file) and calendar.
      • University-wide (general education) learning goals (pdf file).
      • Assessment handbook (pdf file).
      • Reporting templates for assessment plans, reports, & curriculum maps (pdf & Excel files, Word document).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Edmonds Community College (Washington)

Edmonds Community College (Washington)

      • Entry to exit assessment, including:
        • Information about ECC assessment processes.
        • College-wide abilities (general education outcomes).
        • Individual programs’ learning outcomes (which include include general education outcomes).
        • Learning objectives for individual courses.
      • Assessment support
        • Institutional performance reports include some CCSSE results (pdf files).
        • SIMPLE plans (department-level Strategic Informed Measurable Process Leading to Effectiveness) include information about assessment; see find out more (pdf file). Individual departments’ plans are not available online.

El Camino College (California)

El Camino College (California)

      • Overview of ECC’s assessment process (pdf files), and assessment information for students.
      • History of assessment at ECC, including Powerpoint files from on-campus workshops as well as some pdf files & Word documents.
      • FAQ and assessment principles.
      • Institutional and general education outcomes and (pdf files) assessment reports.
      • Academic programs’ learning outcomes, curriculum matrices, & assessment reports (pdf files).
      • Coordinators’ reports include assessment impacts (pdf files).
      • Assessment committee agendas, minutes, & evaluation rubric (recent agendas & minutes are pdf files, older ones are Word documents).
      • Newsletter (pdf files).
      • Video presentation and calendar of training activities.
      • Resources include
        • ECC outcomes assessment handbook (Word document).
        • FAQs & glossary.
        • TracDat training materials (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • SAO (service area outcomes): Student affairs & academic support unit assessment plans and (pdf files) a reporting template & example.
        • Some reports include assessment results & impacts.
        • Assessment Resources
          • Assessment Process Overview
          • ECC Assessment Overview Diagram (pdf file)
          • ECC Planning Model (pdf file)
          • Assessment integrated with program review, curriculum, planning, and resource allocation.
          • ECC Assessment Inputs and Outputs (pdf file)
          • The various inputs and outputs of SLO and PLO assessment
          • ECC Assessment and Improving Student Learning Diagram (pdf file)
          • How assessment results are used to improve student learning.
          • Assessment Reports
          • Links to course SLO assessments per program per division for fall 2014 and spring 2015
          • How assessment results are being used to improve learning.

Elgin Community College (Illinois)

Elgin Community College: Office of Compliance, Curriculum and Assessment (Illinois)

      • About assessment at ECC.
      • General education outcomes.
      • The assessECC portal is restricted to ECC faculty & staff.

Elizabeth City State University (North Carolina)

Elizabeth City State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, & Assessment (North Carolina)

      • The resource manual includes assessment policies and methods (pdf file).
      • Assessments include results from NSSE and other student surveys (pdf files).
      • Links to online surveys (restricted to ECSU students, faculty, & staff).
      • Information about the TaskStream assessment management system.
      • ECSU’s College Portrait.

Elon University (North Carolina)

Elon University: Institutional Research Office (North Carolina)

      • Assessment
        • Overview of institution-wide assessment activities. The examples are results from surveys of students & alumni (pdf file).
        • Brief overview of department-level assessment.
      • Reports & surveys include NSSE results.
      • General studies (general education) learning goals and outcomes.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Worldwide)

Emerson College

Emerson College (Massachusetts)

Emory University (Georgia)

Emory University: Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (Georgia)

      • Overview of assessment at Emory.
      • The context of assessment: FAQ about assessment.
      • Assessment tools: Links to assessment resources elsewhere (pdf files).
      • Assessment timelines and (pdf files) reporting templates for academic and administrative & support units.
        • Best practices for academic outcomes assessment: Overview of key steps.
        • Sample reports and evaluation rubric (pdf files).
        • Reporting guide for administrative & support units (pdf file).
      • Information from & about Emory’s assessment committees. (Mostly html pages, some pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Survey reports were not available when last checked.
      • Information about Campus Life (student affairs) assessment.

Erie Community College (New York)

Erie Community College (New York)

      • For each program, see the program competencies expected upon graduation.

Estrella Mountain Community College (Arizona)

Estrella Mountain Community College: Student Academic Achievement Committee (Arizona)

      • General education abilities (outcomes): Details about each outcome. Some include rubrics; some include results summaries (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Information about and from EMCC’s comprehensive assessment tracking system (CATS; a blog format).
      • Assessment Happens newsletters and information about & from annual assessment awareness weeks (pdf, Powerpoint, & video files).
      • Resources
        • Student academic achievement plan: Overview of assessment at EMCC (Word document).
        • College-wide annual reports (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Assessment committee (SAAC) minutes (Word documents).
        • Information about assessment in action events at EMCC.

Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey)

Fairleigh Dickinson University: Provosts’ Learning Outcomes Assessment Advisory Committee (New Jersey)

      • Office of Institutional Research and Assessment
      • About PLOAAC.
      • University-wide (general education) outcomes (assessment goals) and information about how program (etc.) outcomes are related to the university-wide goals.
        • Overview and resources for assessment of information literacy.
      • Glossary.
      • Assessment planning template and tips.
      • Information about on-& off-campus training (professional development) opportunities.
      • Library resources, & links to other resources (this site).

Fashion Institute of Technology (State University of New York)

Fashion Institute of Technology: Center for Excellence in Teaching (State University of New York)

      • Video presentation: Pathways to Assessment While Keeping “Soul” in the Arts.
      • FIT examples of assessment rubrics for visual arts assignments & courses (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Fayetteville State University (North Carolina)

Fayetteville State University (North Carolina)

      • College of Arts & Sciences
        • Information brochure: overview of the assessment process (pdf file)
        • FAQ, brief overview of SLOs, steps for program assessment, and instructions for department chairs & assessment coordinators.
        • Handbook (pdf file).
        • Assessment form layout (pdf file) and blank forms (pdf and Word documents) for individual academic programs.
        • Tutorials (pdf files) and video guides for the TaskStream data management system (TaskStream access is restricted to FSU faculty & staff).
        • Powerpoint presentations and webinar.
      • School of Education
        • Operational and assessment plans (pdf files).
        • TaskStream assistance (TaskStream access is restricted to FSU students, faculty & staff).
        • Student, alumni, & employer survey instruments & results (pdf files).
      • The University Testing Service site has results from university-wide student surveys and from CLA & CBASE general education instruments (pdf files).

Fayetteville Technical Community College (North Carolina)

Fayetteville Technical Community College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (North Carolina)

      • Assessment overview and timeline (pdf files).
      • Tips & guidelines for how to build an assessment plan (pdf files).
      • FAQ and information for department supervisors (pdf files).
      • General education core curriculum and core competencies (pdf files).
      • Instructions for WEAVEonline (pdf files; WEAVE access is restricted to FTCC faculty & staff).

Ferris State University (Michigan)

Ferris State University (Michigan)

      • Assessment plan.
        • Current & previous plans (pdf files).
        • Definitions, tips, & an overview of FSU assessment activities.
      • General education assessment
        • University-wide learning outcomes (pdf file) & general education outcomes areas, and assessment plan.
        • Academic Profile/Proficiency Profile & NSSE results (pdf files) and notes on other general education assessments at FSU.
      • Results from FSU’s college and beyond survey of graduating students (pdf files).
      • Assessment progress reporting guide and reports from individual academic programs (pdf files).
      • Support
        • FSU programs to support & assist assessment activities, including mini-grants (html pages, pdf files).
        • Guidelines for writing learning outcomes (pdf file).
        • Glossary.
        • Information about using TracDat (pdf files; TracDat access is restricted to FSU faculty & staff).
        • Also see areas of faculty expertise.
      • Strategies and resources for developing and implementing outcomes assessment processes (html pages, pdf files).
      • Strategies for academic program assessment and information about periodic academic program review.
      • Information about & from FSU’s assessment committees (minutes are pdf files).
      • Best practices from FSU courses and programs (pdf files).
      • Ferris presents: Material from on-campus workshops and faculty reports from assessment conferences (pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Student Affairs’ assessment process and (pdf files) summary reports, newsletter, and survey data.

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: Office of University Assessment

      • Overview of assessment at FAMU.
      • About us includes FAMU’s assessment philosophy.
      • The FAMOUS assessment process
        • FAQ about assessment & academic learning compacts.
        • About the FAMOUS process: Steps (Word document) & flowchart (Powerpoint file).
        • Calendar (pdf files).
        • Assessment planning forms & examples. for academic, administrative, & support units (Word documents; the instructions include a Powerpoint file with FAMU’s assessment cycle).
      • Annual assessment reports are restricted to FAMU faculty & staff.
      • Individual degree programs’ academic learning compacts (ALCs) include learning outcomes and assessment methods (Word documents).
      • Assessment communication:
        • Reports on assessment activities & status (institutional reports are Word documents & Excel files; ALC status reports are pdf files; annual reports are restricted to FAMU faculty & staff).
        • Newsletter (mostly pdf files).
        • Policies & procedures for assessment activities (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Minutes from institution-wide and general-education assessment committees (Word documents; the policies and guidelines are a pdf file).
      • Commonly administered assessments include Proficiency Profile and support-services survey data (pdf files).
      • Assessment tools include:
        • Templates, examples, and documentation for reporting assessment plans and results (Word documents & Powerpoint presentations).
        • Inventory of assessment methods in use at FAMU (Excel files & Word documents), and login for online graduating-seniors survey.
          • Includes access (for FAMU students) to online surveys, Word documents with other surveys, and (pdf files) NSSE results.
        • Presentations from on-campus workshops (Powerpoint & pdf files).
        • Guidelines & forms for periodic program review and discipline-specific accreditation (pdf & Excel files).
        • FAMU’s strategic plan and related information (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • The web-based assessment system is restricted to FAMU faculty & staff.

Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analysis

        • Overview and (pdf file) assessment plan.
        • Student learning outcomes assessment: Individual academic programs’ academic learning compacts include content-based and general education student learning goals (pdf files).
        • The Assessment Database is restricted to FSU faculty and staff.
        • Assessment resources has extensive links to other assessment resources.
        • FAQ.
        • General education outcomes.
        • Links to resources about rubrics.
        • Results from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE results (html pages, pdf & Powerpoint files).

Florida Gulf Coast University

Florida Gulf Coast University: Office of Planning and Institutional Performance

      • Diagram (integrated view) of FGCU assessment process.
      • Summary of Florida State University system academic learning compact (ALC) process (pdf file).
      • Learning outcomes for individual academic programs (a large pdf file).
      • Academic units’ assessment plans (pdf files).
      • Administrative units’ assessment plans (mht files will open in Internet Explorer but may not open in other browsers).
      • External assessments: Reports from institution-wide surveys, including NSSE results (pdf, Excel & Powerpoint files).
      • Survey page: Tips for designing and using surveys.
      • Resources:
        • Reporting timelines (pdf files).
        • Materials from on-campus presentations (Powerpoint files).
        • About the annual report process.
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Florida Institute of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation

      • Assessment
        • Glossary.
        • Information about & from assessment committees. The academic program assessment committee’s page includes guidelines, tips, & examples (mostly pdf files).
        • Information about using WEAVEonline. WEAVE access is restricted to Florida Tech faculty & staff.
      • Resources related to SACS accreditation.

Florida International University

Florida International University: Office of Academic Planning and Accountability

      • FIU’s assessment policies and (Word documents) cycle.
      • Academic assessment: Overviews and (Word documents) reporting templates for university-wide, core curriculum, and program-specific student learning outcomes.
        • See academic learning compacts in the main menu for individual programs’ learning outcomes. (The regulations are a Word document. Most programs’ ALC direct measures and curriculum maps are Excel files; a few are Word documents.)
      • Administrative assessment: Reporting templates & instructions for administrative units and centers & institutes (Word documents).
      • The handbook is available in pdf and html formats.
        • Tips and guidelines on how to plan & implement assessment, with links to appropriate handbook chapters.
      • FAQ.
      • Resources
        • Assessment newsletters (pdf files).
        • Glossary, in pdf and html formats.
        • Information about & from assessment training events (Word documents).
        • A book list (Excel file) and annotated bibliography (Word document) from APA’s assessment library.
        • Links to other assessment resources, and resources for rubrics and curriculum maps.
      • Information about the assessment committee (Word documents).
      • Instructions & help for TracDat (TracDat access is restricted to FIU faculty & staff).
      • Information about periodic academic program review (html pages, Word documents).

Foothill College (California)

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.)

Fresno City College (California)

Fresno City College (California)

Fresno State University (California)

Fresno State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

The assessment of student learning, student development, and program outcomes is essential to the health and vitality of academic programs at California State University, Fresno. The primary purpose of assessment at the course, program, and institutional level is to further student engagement and student learning. However, assessment results are also used by programs to advance student learning through improved instruction and curricula. Accreditation agencies for various professional areas as well as the institution itself all have assessment standards that require the connection of student performance to a program’s stated mission, goals, and outcomes.

Planning at the programmatic level to assess student learning outcomes is reflected in the program’s Student Outcomes Assessment Plan (SOAP)which should be maintained at the department/program level and should be updated periodically to reflect assessment activities and results and changing circumstances.

Since every academic program has a SOAP, and has carried out on-going assessment, the emphasis now is on how programs can use assessment results in order to either demonstrate that student’s are achieving the designated learning outcomes or to make adjustments to the curriculum and program in order to assist student’s in achieving proficiency in the required learning outcomes. Program level assessment is also directly connected to institutional values and outcomes which can be reviewed by clicking on the link below.

  • Student outcomes assessment projects (SOAPs) policy, overview, examples (html pages), reporting templates (Word documents), and individual programs’ SOAPs reports (pdf files).
  • The assessment blog includes details about CSUF’s assessment process.
  • Assessment Guide online handbook. Internal links go to html pages and pdf files.
  • Glossary of assessment terms.
  • General education outcomes (Word documents), rubrics for general education outcomes & recommendations for using rubrics (pdf files), and reports from relevant committees (Word documents).
  • Descriptions of assessment and survey methods (most are pdf files).
  • Current faculty projects funded by campus assessment grants and RFP information (pdf files) for new grants.
  • Effectiveness and lessons learned: Examples of using assessment results for program improvement (html pages, pdf files).
  • Research & Reports / Reports, Surveys & Studies include CLA and NSSE results and analyses (pdf files).
  • Training & assistance: Guidelines for developing & implementing assessment plans (pdf and mov video files).
  • Information about academic program review.
  • Links to other assessment resources (on the main page and in Assessment Help).

Frostburg State University (Maryland)

Frostburg State University: Office of Assessment & Institutional Research (Maryland)

      • Assessment of student learning
        • History of assessment planning at FSU (the strategic plan and Middle States resources are pdf files).
        • Student learning assessment (SLA) plan (pdf file).
        • General education outcomes, (pdf files) guidelines, and (Word documents) associated rubrics.
        • Assessment committees
          • Student learning assessment advisory group (SLAAG).
          • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) assessment council
            • Assessment reporting templates (Word documents) & checklist (pdf file).
        • NSSE results (pdf files) and information about FSU’s use of the CLA.
        • Information about the VSA, and FSU’s College Portrait.
        • Information & resources
          • Institutional learning goals (pdf file).
          • Guides for developing learning goals and assessment plans (pdf files; the template and update form are Word documents).
          • Links to other assessment resources (html pages, pdf files).
      • The institutional assessment page has additional resource links.

Gallaudet University (Washington, DC)

Gallaudet University: Office of Academic Quality (Washington, DC)

      • Overview and (pdf file) policy on assessment at Gallaudet.
      • Instructions and examples: Guidelines & example for an assessment plan.
      • Guidelines for using WEAVEonline (pdf files; WEAVE access is restricted to Gallaudet faculty & staff).
        • Evaluation rubric for program reports (Word document).
      • Syllabus template and examples (Word document, pdf files).
        • Sample rubrics (pdf files) and links to resources about rubrics.
      • Individual academic programs’ student learning outcomes (Excel file).
      • Gallaudet’s senior assessment and senior literacy assessment
        • Senior assessment
          • Institutional (general education) outcomes.
          • Plan & timeline for senior assessments.
          • Related documents (Word documents, pdf file).
        • Literacy assessment
          • Annual reports (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
          • Associated rubrics (pdf files).
      • Information about the assessment council.
      • The institutional research site has reports from NSSE/FSSE (pdf, Excel, & Powerpoint files, Word documents) and other surveys (pdf files).

Gavilan College (California)

Gavilan College: Office of Institutional Research (California)

      • Assessment plan, timeline, schedule (Word documents) and guidelines (pdf file).
      • Reporting forms, worksheets, & example (mostly Word documents). The reporting site is restricted to GC faculty & staff.
      • The institutional, program, & course outcomes were not available when last checked.
      • Information from & about the assessment committee (minutes & agendas are pdf files; the member list is a Word document).
      • Newsletter (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

George Mason University (Virginia)

George Mason University: Office of Institutional Assessment (Virginia)

      • How to…: Tips & guidelines for planning & implementing outcomes assessment. (Some pages have links to additional resources.)
      • FAQ.
      • General education assessment process.
        • Overview, schedule, and (pdf file) guidelines.
        • General education goals and learning outcomes.
        • Why assessment? includes links to some survey results (pdf files).
        • About general education course portfolio assessment.
        • Assessment methods and results (pdf files).
      • Students as scholars (GMU’s Quality Enhancement Plan): Overview, rubrics, & reports (pdf files).
      • Survey reports & data include results from NSSE and other surveys (pdf files).
      • Survey calendar & (pdf files) instruments, and links (for students) to active surveys.
        • Tips & guidelines for creating & administering effective surveys, with links to other resources.
      • News includes OIA presentations (pdf files).
      • Information about periodic academic program review (pdf & Excel files). The guide indicates how learning outcomes assessment is included in program reviews.
      • Information about on-campus workshops.
      • Access to MATS (GMU’s online assessment tracking system) is restricted to GMU faculty & staff.
      • Resources (pdf files, Word documents) include:
        • The How to… guide.
        • Glossary.
        • Suggested readings and links to other resources.

Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)

Georgetown University: Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (Washington, D.C.)

      • FAQ.
      • Guidelines & tips for course– and program-level assessment (also listed as what do faculty need to know? and what do departments need to know?)
      • Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Georgia College & State University

Georgia College & State University

      • Login to GC’s online assessment reporting system (restricted to GC faculty & staff).
      • Institutional effectiveness policy & flowchart.
      • SMART assessment process flowchart, pdf file of a Powerpoint presentation, and (pdf files) sample reports.
        • Compliance Assist access is restricted to GC faculty & staff.
      • Overviews & flowcharts for academic department progress & planning reports and administrative units’ planning & assessment reports.
      • Schedule for assessment activities & reports.
      • About GCSU’s annual assessment day.
      • Assessment resources include:
        • University & core (general education) learning goals & outcomes (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Core resources: Core (general education) assessment plans & rubrics (pdf files; the 2012 assessment plan is a Word document).
      • The Office of Institutional Research survey reports includes the CLA and NSSE results (pdf & Excel files).

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology: Office of Academic Effectiveness

      • FAQ.
      • Access to online assessment reporting (OATS) and data-retrieval (ADORS) systems (restricted to Georgia Tech faculty & staff).
      • Documents (mostly pdf files)
        • Downloads of information about OATS.
        • Guidelines for and examples of academic programs’ assessment plans and OATS reports.
        • Reports on assessment of general education goals.
        • Survey reports are restricted to Georgia Tech faculty & staff.
        • Workshops and presentations about assessment.
      • Resources include guidelines for writing outcomes.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Current assessment news includes recent survey results (html pages, pdf files).
      • Information about NSSE and (pdf file) an invitation for student participation.

Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

      • Assessment
        • Academic assessment:
          • Guidelines and materials from training workshops & retreats (pdf & video files).
          • Mission statement template (Word document).
        • Administrative assessment
          • Training Powerpoint.
          • Assessment plan template (Word document), example, & rubric (pdf files).
      • General education outcomes and overview of general education assessment (pdf files).
      • Conference presentations (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).

Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

      • Academic assessment & review: Brief overview of learning outcomes assessment at GSU.
        • Resources: Guidelines for planning & implementing assessment processes (pdf files, Word document).
      • Overview & process for periodic academic program review.
      • Periodic administrative and support unit review (ASUR)
        • About ASUR: overview, process, and (pdf file) roles & responsibilities.
        • Completed reviews (Word documents, pdf & Excel files). Note: Information for senior executives and the ASUR committee says that these documents are password protected. They were not when last checked.
        • Self-study templates (pdf files).
        • Information for administrative units includes an overview of the process and tips & guidelines (pdf files).
      • Institutional research: Surveys
        • Resources for in-house surveys.
        • Reports from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE results (Word documents, pdf & Excel files).
      • Access to WEAVEonline is restricted to GSU faculty & staff

Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania)

Gettysburg College: Office of Institutional Analysis (Pennsylvania)

      • Assessment-related organization chart (pdf file).
      • General education goals and information about Gettysburg’s general education program, and detailed curricular and co-curricular learning outcomes (pdf files) for each goal.
      • Responsibilities, plans, accomplishments of COLA (Committee on Learning Assessment) and CLAG (Co-curricular Learning Assessment Group).
        • Both pages include Gettysburg’s assessment handbook and links to assessment information from Middle States (pdf files).
        • The COLA page includes Gettysburg’s general education learning goals.
        • The CLAG page includes the plan for co-curricular learning assessment (pdf files).
      • Schedule of major surveys used at Gettysburg (pdf file). The reports of findings are restricted to Gettysburg faculty & staff.
      • Additional studies conducted by the IA office (pdf file).
      • Most faculty resources are pdf files. Survey results and program-level resources are restricted to Gettysburg faculty & staff.
        • The page also includes links to other assessment resources.
      • Resources for co-curricular programs include learning goals (outcomes), assessment guidelines (pdf files), reporting templates (Word documents), and links to other assessment resources. Assessment summaries are restricted to Gettysburg faculty & staff.
      • College surveys: Results are restricted to Gettysburg faculty & staff.
      • Assessment newsletters.

Golden West College (California)

Golden West College: Institutional Effectiveness (California)

      • Assessment philosophy and (Word document) plan.
      • Institutional student learning outcomes and assessment schedule.
      • Program SLOs and assessment schedules (pdf files).
        • General education and basic skills.
        • Degree and certificate programs.
      • Information about the committee.
      • Assessment reporting forms & instructions for courses, academic programs, & student services programs (Word documents).
      • Tutorials (videos and pdf files).
      • Glossary.
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Note: The rubrics for evaluating assessment implementation and institutional effectiveness in the appendices to the performance indicators (Word) document were not available when last checked.

Gonzaga University (Washington)

Gonzaga University: Office of Outcomes Assessment (Washington)

      • Note: All are Word documents unless otherwise specified.
      • The interim report (pdf file), assessment analysis, assessment newsletter, and the Texas A&M article and final powerpoint (Powerpoint file) describe assessment developments at Gonzaga.
      • Rubrics for students’ written papers & reports.
      • Guidelines for primary trait analysis (assessment-based grading process).
      • Forms for academic departments’ assessment reports and assessment committee evaluation.
      • Information about assessment mini-grants.
      • Results from Gonzaga’s alumni surveys.

Grand Canyon University (Arizona)

Grand Canyon University: Office of Assessment (Arizona)

      • About the Office of Assessment, the assessment committee, and student learning assessment methods used at GCU.
      • Surveys used at GCU.
      • Glossary.
      • Links to other resources.

Grand Valley State University (Michigan)

Grand Valley State University: Office of Assessment and Accreditation (Michigan)

      • Guiding principles of assessment at GVSU (pdf file).
      • Assessment definitions and issues.
      • Assessment cycles and examples of assessment at GVSU (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
      • Types of assessment at GVSU: Information about CLA general education and SAILS information literacy assessments.
        • see CLA & SAILS reports (pdf files).
      • Assessment tools: About surveys, rubrics, & focus groups (html & pdf files, Word documents; Portfolios is a Word document with one department’s learning outcomes).
      • Assessment presentations by GVSU faculty & staff (Powerpoint files) and information (pdf file) about an on-campus assessment conference.
      • Resources: Materials from the on-campus conference (mostly pdf files).
      • Access to WEAVEonline (restricted to GVSU faculty & staff).

Hagerstown Community College (Maryland)

Hagerstown Community College (Maryland)

      • Overview of assessment.
      • Glossary (pdf file).
      • General education outcomes (pdf file).
      • Reporting templates & guides for course- and program-level assessment and a sample report matrix (Word documents, pdf file).
      • Assessment results (pdf files) include:
        • Examples of course- and program-level assessment.
        • Results from standardized general education tests (CAAP & MAPP).
        • Results from standardized discipline-specific tests.
      • The online newsletter includes assessment-related information (pdf files).

Hamline University (Minnesota)

Hamline University (Minnesota)

      • Assessment plan & standards (pdf file).
      • Outcomes:University-wide (general education outcomes and (Excel file) alignment matrix of program- and university-level outcomes.
        • Program-level reporting template & examples (pdf files).
      • Resources include:
        • Hamline’s assessment framework & flowchart (pdf files).
        • Tutorials, assessment methods & models, & closing the loop resources:
          • Assessment plan template and materials from on-campus workshops (mostly pdf files).
          • Guidelines for Blackboard’s assessment management tools.
          • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about:
        • The assessment committee and other campus assessment resources.
        • Upcoming on-campus workshops & events.
      • The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment reports NSSE results. Other survey results are restricted to Hamline faculty, staff, & students.

Harford Community College (Maryland)

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

      • Overview of assessment.
      • Institutional effectiveness
        • IE assessment process (pdf file).
        • The outcomes assessment report includes HCC’s general education outcomes and summaries of some program-level assessment processes & results (pdf file).
        • CCSSE and other survey reports are restricted to HCC faculty & staff.
      • Information from & about the assessment committee.
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Hartwick College (New York)

Hartwick College (New York)

      • Overview of assessment at Hartwick.
      • Glossary.
      • The FAQ includes general education learning outcomes.
      • Steps in the assessment process include a link to (pdf file) Hartwick’s college-wide assessment plan.
      • Information about Hartwick’s assessment committees.
      • Pages with links to other resources (html pages, pdf files, Word documents) include:
        • Tools.
        • Resources.

Haverford College (Pennsylvania)

Haverford College: Institutional Effectiveness Committee (Pennsylvania)

      • About assessment at Haverford, and about the IE Committee (html pages, pdf files).
      • Student learning assessment
        • Overview, and video of recent assessment experiences.
        • Tips for getting started with assessments.
        • Campus resources
          • College-wide (general education) goals & aspirations.
          • Individual academic departments’ learning goals (pdf files).
            • Guidelines for developing & implementing department-level learning assessment processes (pdf files).
            • Assessment primer presentation (pdf file).
            • Links to other assessment resources.
        • Results from alumni surveys (pdf files) and some departments’ information about their alumni.
      • Institutional effectiveness includes information about program assessment (periodic program review).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Heartland Community College (Illinois)

Heartland Community College (Illinois)

      • Overview of assessment.
      • General education learning outcomes.
      • Information for faculty: How HCC uses Blackboard to manage assessment information.
      • About HCC’s Cornerstone outcomes-alignment project.
      • Information for students about assessment testing.
      • Information about the assessment committee.

Hendrix College (Arkansas)

Hendrix College (Arkansas)

      • Individual academic departments’ assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
      • Annual assessment reporting form (pdf file).
      • NSSE results (pdf files).

Highland Community College (Kansas)

Highland Community College (Kansas)

      • Assessment plan and faculty responsibility for assessment.
      • General education outcomes.
        • About CAAP, and (pdf files) trends on CAAP subtests.
      • Annual reports of courses assessed and instructor review of the assessment process (pdf files).
        • The online instructor review survey is restricted to HCC faculty & staff.
      • Still to come: Courses being assessed.
      • Links to other resources.

Highline Community College (Washington)

Highline Community College: Standards, Outcomes, & Competencies Committee (Washington)

      • Tips on developing & implementing the outcomes assessment process for academic programs.
      • The examples and the department reporting form are Word documents. The sample report is a pdf file.
      • Information about the SOCC committee.
        • Annual assessment calendar (schedule).
        • Review & feedback process for department reports (the review form is a Word document).
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Student services assessment
        • Process and development timeline.
        • Training & resources include (pdf files):
          • A workbook with assessment tips, glossary, & bibliography.
          • Worksheets & reporting templates.
          • Presentations.
        • Individual department and annual summary reports (pdf files).

Hocking College (Ohio)

Hocking College: Office of Assessment of Student Academic Achievement (Ohio)

      • Hocking’s assessment plan (see the accreditation report chapter, pdf file).
        • The Ohio Board of Regents’ student success plan information was not available when last checked.
        • Hocking’s success plan diagram and narrative were not available when last checked.
      • Success skills: General education goals & outcomes.
      • Resources (pdf files)
        • Glossary.
        • Rubrics associated with general education outcomes.
        • Hocking’s assessment process and measures.
      • Program portfolios have individual academic programs’ assessment plans, results, and changes in response to assessment results (pdf files).
      • The institutional research site includes CCSSE results (pdf file).

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Educational Development Centre

      • FAQ.
      • Overview of outcomes-based education (OBE) in PolyU.
      • EDC training activities and support for OBE, and news about OBE projects at PolyU.
        • Some reports are available as pdf files.
        • Academic programs’ learning assessment plans are restricted to PolyU faculty & staff.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Houghton College (New York)

Houghton College: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (NewYork)

      • Assessment
        • Policies & guidelines on assessment and program self-studies (pdf files).
        • Institutional (general education) and some academic programs’ learning outcomes (pdf files).
        • Benchmark (college-wide) assessment: Results from standardized tests & surveys, including NSSE, CLA, & Proficiency Profile summaries (most are pdf files; some are still to come).
        • Resources: Tips, guidelines, & reporting templates (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).
      • Resources include links to other assessment resources.

Howard University (Washington, D.C.)

Howard University: Office of Institutional Assessment & Evaluation (Washington, D.C.)

      • About OIAE: Overview of assessment at Howard.
      • Annual assessment calendar.
      • Reports include overviews of assessment results (assessment dashboards), and results from surveys and special projects (pdf files; recent reports are on the main page’s right-hand menu).
      • Online newsletters (pdf files): OIAE newsletter & reports, and Opinions Matter (survey results).
      • Links to other assessment resources (when last checked, most were pdf files).

Humboldt State University (California)

Humboldt State University (California)

      • Core competencies & associated (general education) learning outcomes.
      • Assessment activities: Assessment process for core competencies in academic programs, including some rubrics & reporting forms (pdf files)
      • Information about academic program review
        • PREP (Compliance Assist) manual (pdf file; Compliance Assist access is restricted to HSU faculty & staff).
        • Program review documents are restricted to HSU faculty & staff.
      • Information about student achievement includes CLA+ & NSSE reports and reports from other surveys of students & Alumni (pdf files).
      • Administrative & support units assessment process overview, with a handbook (pdf file) and guidelines, reporting template, evaluation rubric, & summary report (Word documents).

Hunter College (New York)

Hunter College Assessment 

Welcome to the Office of Assessment!

The Office of Assessment works with faculty and staff across the College to help them explore student learning and success in their courses, departments, programs, and offices.

Assessment Glossary

Presentations

Assessment Fellows

Contact us

Hutchinson Community College (Kansas)

Hutchinson Community College

Hutchinson Community College provides many assessment resources for its faculty and staff. The Teaching and Learning Resource Center in Lockman Hall 111 houses books on various assessment techniques available for HCC faculty to check out. Past issues of the Assessment Update and many articles on assessment are also available. Also, the Hutchinson Community College Assessment Handbook provides an overview of assessment at HCC, a glossary of common assessment terms, and a few helpful assessment ideas.

Idaho State University

Idaho State University: Office of Institutional Research

      • Assessment handbooks (pdf files) for program and course assessment, adapted from the University of Massachusetts Amherst handbooks. Appendix 5-B in the program assessment handbook has information about ISU’s annual reporting process.
      • Assessment bibliography and links to other assessment resources.

Illinois College

Illinois College: Assessment Committee

      • The assessment handbook includes policies, guidelines, and reporting forms for academic programs and administrative & support units. Chapters are available as html pages; the whole handbook is available as a pdf file.

Illinois Eastern Community College

Illinois Eastern Community College

Frontier College, Lincoln Trail College, Olney Central College, and Wabash Valley College

This is a district website that has links to multiple areas:

 

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges

Assessment

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges strive to put students first by… “delivering exceptional education and services to improve the lives of our students and to strengthen our communities.”

Students First! is an ongoing institution-wide effort to engage all aspects of the institution in the measurement and improvement of student learning.  Putting students first in all we do ensures their success while at IECC and in the future at another four-year institution or in the workplace.

Illinois State University

Illinois State University: University Assessment Services

      • Most links in the assessment plan tutorial are to pdf files. The assessment plan worksheet is a Word document.
      • Program assessment: Individual academic programs’ student learning objectives and (in many cases) assessment methods (pdf files).
        • Assessment advisory council (AAC) process for review of assessment plans (PRAAP):
          • Review process, flow chart, and evaluation rubric (pdf files).
          • Form for annual updates (Word document).
          • Online survey for PRAAP feedback (please do not enter anything into this form)
        • Assessment academy team rubric and feedback form for assessment plans (pdf files).
        • General education
          • FAQ about general education assessment at ISU.
          • General education goals and (pdf file) outcomes.
          • Assessment process and (pdf files) rubrics for the primary goals.
          • Policies and (pdf file) assessment manual.
          • Information for assessment reviewers (pdf file).
      • Surveys include information about student surveys at ISU, including NSSE/FSSE results. Reports are pdf files.
      • Professional development:
        • Workshop presentations by UAS staff (Powerpoint files).
        • List of upcoming national & regional assessment-related conferences & workshops.
      • About UAS
        • About the assessment advisory council.
        • Progressive Measures newsletter (pdf files).
        • About the assessment initiative award (guidelines and newsletter articles are pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Indiana State University

Indiana State University

      • About assessment at ISU
        • Conceptual framework (pdf file).
        • Information from & about the assessment council and leadership team (minutes are pdf files).
      • Timelines for academic assessment and administration of standardized instruments. The Office of Institutional Research page has NSSE and other survey reports (pdf files).
      • FAQ.
      • Resources:
        • Academic program assessment plan template and evaluative rubric (Word documents).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about ISU’s participation in HLC’s Academy for the Assessment of Student Learning (pdf files).
      • Access to TaskStream is restricted to ISU faculty & staff.

Indiana University Kokomo

Indiana University Kokomo: Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Role of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment (CTLA)

The CTLA, as part of Academic Affairs, is the administrative unit which supports faculty engagement in effective assessment of student learning at the course level. CTLA also supports program level assessment by maintaining this assessment website for both course level and program level assessment.

The faculty, staff, and administration of Indiana University Kokomo share responsibility for assessing their unit’s role in achieving the mission of IU Kokomo and in promoting student learning. Academic Affairs and in collaboration with departments, the Faculty Senate Assessment Committee, and the Educational Policies Committee guide and assist units in their assessment efforts. The Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in Faculty Development and Success offers consultation on all aspects of the program assessment process, including writing plans, designing activities, collecting and analyzing data, and writing reports.

CTLA Web Resources for Assessment

To support a culture of assessment, CTLA offers these online resources for faculty and staff. These online resources include the nine principles of good practice for assessing student learning, explanations for concepts and terms used as a common assessment language, the IU Kokomo’s Assessment Policy, assessment activities, assessment results, and links to assessment resources from other institutions.

      • Nine Principles of Good Practice
      • IU Kokomo Assessment Policy
      • Assessment Results
      • CTLA Assessment Plans
      • Common Assessment Concepts and Terms
      • Assessment Activities and Calendar
      • Assessment Resources CTLA Assessment Reports

Indiana University Southeast

Indiana University Southeast: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

      • About us includes a history of assessment at IUS.
      • Assessment update
        • Summary of the year’s assessment-reporting activity.
        • Reporting instructions (pdf files).
        • Guidelines for program assessment coordinators (pdf file).
      • Program assessment
        • An overview of IUS’s assessment process.
        • A program report example and reporting instructions (pdf files).
        • A handbook (pdf files).
        • Assessment summaries from individual academic programs.
        • Resources, including information about:
          • Curriculum mapping, with examples from IUS and elsewhere.
          • Assessment mini-grants.
      • Overview of general education assessment, including learning outcomes and (pdf files) the general education assessment cycle and assessment committee reports.
      • Reports and surveys include results from IUS surveys of students & faculty (institutional assessments, pdf files) and information about NSSE. The IUS NSSE report is a pdf file.

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne: Office of Assessment

      • The Senate documents include IPFW’s university-wide assessment plan (pdf file).
      • Academic program assessment plans are not available online.
      • Goals/objectives (learning outcomes) for academic programs including general education and for student services programs (pdf files, html pages).
      • Institutional studies: Results from CAAP and from surveys of students and faculty, including NSSE (pdf files).
      • Academic program assessment handbook (pdf files).
      • Information about assessment grants and awards (pdf files).
      • Information from and about the assessment council (minutes are pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis: Planning and Institutional Improvement

Planning and Institutional Improvement staff provide campus, state, regional, national, and international leadership for outcomes assessment in higher education.  Staff have produced 20 books, more than 400 published articles and chapters in others’ works, and have given over 500 presentations at local, state, regional, national, and international meetings in the past two decades.

Content for Assessment Update, a bi-monthly periodical published by Jossey-Bass (a Wiley imprint), has been edited and produced at IUPUI since 1992.  In the same year, a national conference on outcomes assessment in higher education was held for the first time at IUPUI, and that conference—now the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis—has become the oldest and largest such event in the world.

Outcomes Assessment

  • Assessment Institute
  • Assessment Reports
  • Program Review and Assessment Committee (PRAC)
  • Assessment Grants
  • Student Learning Assessment Resources

 

Iowa State University

Iowa State University

      • Overview of assessment, and guidelines for assessment at ISU.
      • Individual colleges’ assessment reports include learning outcomes, assessment methods, and results (html pages, pdf files, Word documents). The report structure & format varies from college to college. Some are brief overviews, some include program-level details.
      • About course-level continuous improvement planning.

Iowa Valley Community College District

Iowa Valley Community College District (Iowa)

 

Isothermal Community College (North Carolina)

Isothermal Community College: Assessment, Planning, and Research Office (North Carolina)

      • Assessment manual and glossary.
      • Assessment timeline (pdf file).
      • Resources:
        • General education competencies and (pdf files) associated rubrics.
        • Planning & reporting templates (Word documents, Excel file), and a pdf version of the assessment manual.
        • Assessment committee minutes (pdf files).

Jackson College (Michigan)

Jackson College (Michigan)

      • Assessment brochure (FAQs & associate degree outcomes [ADOs]; pdf file).
      • General education philosophy and ADOs (Word document).
      • ADO courses and course matrices (Word documents).
      • Course-level rubrics and rubric templates for ADOs (Word documents), and Powerpoint presentation about creating rubrics.
      • Reporting directions (pdf file) and example (Word document). (The directions link to online reporting forms. Please do not enter anything in these forms.)
      • Information about periodic program review (mostly pdf files).
        • Resources include links to other assessment resources.

Jacksonville State University (Alabama)

Jacksonville State University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Alabama)

      • Template for, and example of, an assessment plan for a graduate program (pdf files).
      • Data in the university assessment system are restricted to JSU faculty & staff. The schedule shows when various types of data are available on the system
      • Information about surveys and other assessment instruments used at JSU. The questionnaires and the information about the Proficiency Profile are pdf files.
      • Survey data, including NSSE results (pdf files). Some are restricted to JSU faculty & staff.
      • Information about periodic program review (pdf files). Access to individual units’ self-studies is restricted to JSU faculty & staff.
      • JSU’s VSA College Portrait.
      • Access to the Compliance Assist PRISM system for managing planning & assessment data is restricted to JSU faculty & staff.

James Madison University (Virginia)

James Madison University: Center for Assessment and Research Studies (Virginia)

      • Overviews of JMU’s assessment process and assessment day.
      • Expand the “Visitors”, “Faculty and Staff”, and “Students” menu items to see additional JMU assessment details.
      • Brief descriptions of assessment of alumni, academic majors, general education, and Student Affairs activities, and of CARS’ program assessment support service (PASS). The general education section links to information about the general education program and learning goals as well as some general education cluster assessment reports (pdf and Powerpoint files).
      • Guidelines for the assessment progress template report (pdf files; the APT website itself is restricted to JMU department heads & program assessment coordinators).
      • Information about:
        • Assessment awards that JMU has received and JMU’s internal award for excellence in assessment.
        • CARS’s graduate programs and research in assessment, and assessment fellowships for JMU faculty & staff.
        • JMU’s assessment advisory council.
      • Alumni survey schedule.
      • Student feedback: Information for students about interpreting their scores on JMU’s quantitative and scientific reasoning tests.
      • Links to CARS assessment resources including
        • a searchable dictionary of assessment terms,
        • assessment and test development tips, techniques, examples,
        • characteristics of an effective assessment program, and
        • instructional presentations about assessment, including podcasts and videos.
      • Information about assessment instruments developed at JMU, including general-education tests and a survey of student motivation for & effort in taking assessment tests.

John Carroll University (Ohio)

John Carroll University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Ohio)

      • Overview of assessment at JCU.
      • Glossary.
      • Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing assessment processes, with links to associated resources.
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Assessment in academic affairs
        • Overview & timelines.
        • Individual academic units’ assessment plans & (still to come) reports (pdf files).
        • Information about academic program review.
      • Assessment in student affairs
        • Annual assessment report.
        • Division- and department-level learning goals & outcomes.
        • Information about surveys used at JCU.
        • Resources include information from on-campus workshops (pdf files & Prezi presentations) and links to other assessment resources.
        • Information about the Student Affairs assessment team, and an online form for submitting information about assessment instruments to the team’s database (please do not enter anything in this form).

John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York)

John Jay College of Criminal Justice: Office of Outcomes Assessment (New York)

      • Guidelines for assessment, with examples and the assessment committee’s evaluation rubric (pdf file).
      • Assessment of student learning (pdf files)
        • General education assessment plan & report.
        • Undergraduate programs’ learning goals and selected assessment plans & reports.
        • Selected graduate programs’ assessment plans & reports.
      • Some administrative units’ assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
      • Institutional assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Joliet Junior College (Illinois)

Joliet Junior College: Student Learning Committee (Illinois)

      • Assessment Page.
      • Handbook (pdf file).
      • General education learning outcomes & associated rubrics (pdf files) and assessment results (Powerpoint file).
      • Individual academic program/department assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
      • Assessment resources
        • Bibliographies.
        • Glossary.
        • Tips, guidelines, & workshop materials (html pages, pdf files).
        • Reporting templates (Word documents).
      • Assessment newsletter (pdf files).
      • Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf files).
      • Information about & from the committee.
        • Video presentation.
        • Older committee minutes are pdf files, recent ones are Word documents.

Kansas City Kansas Community College

Kansas City Kansas Community College: Office of Assessment

      • College-wide (general education) learning outcomes.
      • Assessment plan (pdf file) with:
        • a history of assessment at KCKCC,
        • information about the assessment committee, and
        • an overview of assessment processes at the college, program, & course levels (pdf file).
      • Information about classroom assessment techniques.
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about TracDat was not available when last checked.

Kansas State University

Kansas State University: Office of Assessment

Contact: Dr. Frederick Burrack

Assessment matters

High-quality assessment is essential to improving student learning.  Through the use of both direct and indirect sources of evidence of student achievement, assessments guide collective actions for improvements in teaching, academic supports, and curricula.

A culture of assessment

The Office of Assessment believes in an approach that links learning from coursework to programmatic and university learning expectations. Within a culture of trust and shared responsibility, faculty and student life professionals develop and implement ongoing and systematic assessments—with participation from students, administrators, alumni and K-State constituents—to understand what and how much students learn. The purpose is to continuously improve curriculum, instruction, and learning. To assist faculty, the Office of Assessment provides support, resources, and training to help develop and implement assessment practices tailored to faculty and programmatic  needs.

      • Student learning outcomes
        • Institutional Learning Outcomes
          • Undergraduate
          • Graduate
        • Program Outcomes and Assessment Plans
        • General Education: K-State 8
        • Resources for Writing SLOs
      • Assessment toolkit:
        • Basics
        • SLOs
        • Assessment Planning
        • Measurement
        • Improvement through Assessment
        • Assessment Library
        • Additional Resources
      • Data and Survey Results
        • Summary Reports
        • Dashboards
        • Surveys
          • NSSE
          • Senior Survey
          • Alumni Survey
          • GTA Communication Survey
          • K-State 8 Survey
          • VSA
          • K-State’s College Portrait
          • Office of Assessment Contributions to the K-State College Portrait
        • Standardized Assessment Instruments
          • The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA)
      • Assessment Reporting (Powered by Canvas)
        • Walkthroughs, Templates, and Deadlines
          • Undergraduate programs
          • Graduate programs
          • Video: Assessment Reporting: Overview
      • Related Links
        • Performance Agreements
        • Program Review
        • Teaching and Learning Center
        • Office of the Provost
        • Office of Planning and Analysis

 

Kapi’olani Community College (University of Hawai’i)

Kapi’olani Community College: Office for Institutional Effectiveness (University of Hawai’i)

      • Select student learning outcomes from the assessment and evaluation drop-down menu.
        • Assessment framework (pdf file) and rubrics (status reports, by date; pdf files & Word documents).
          • Also, see the assessment plan and progress report in KCC’s October 2011 report to ACCJC (pdf files; in the progress report, scroll down to Section 2: Progress on student learning outcomes assessment).
        • Guidelines (manuals), reporting templates, and progress reports for course & program assessment (pdf files & Word documents).
        • Course level profiles (status reports, pdf files & Word documents).
        • Individual academic programs’ assessment reports (pdf files).
        • General education outcomes (Word document).
        • Plan, guidelines,& reports for assessment of service learning experiences (pdf files, Word documents; the reports are WinZipped sets of Word documents).
        • Assessment plan and reporting template (rubric) for the ASNS program (Associate of Science degree in Natural Sciences; pdf files).
        • Assessment reports from student service units (pdf files).
        • Alignment grids showing KCC general education outcomes associated with programs’ course outcomes (WinZipped sets of Word documents).
      • Select CCSSE from the assessment and evaluation drop-down menu (Word documents, pdf files).

Kean University (New Jersey)

Kean University: Office of Accreditation & Assessment (New Jersey)

      • Overview of Kean’s institutional assessment process (pdf file).
      • Academic assessment: Assessment plans, reports, & curriculum maps from individual degree programs (pdf files).
      • General education assessment (pdf files)
        • Learning outcomes and assessment reports from individual general education courses & projects.
        • CAAP & NSSE results.
      • Administrative unit assessment: Assessment plans & reports from individual administrative & support units (pdf files).
      • Accreditation and assessment resources: Periodic program review guidelines & schedules (pdf files).
      • Office of Institutional Research
        • Survey reports: Older NSSE results (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Keene State College (New Hampshire)

Keene State College: Office of Institutional Assessment (New Hampshire)

      • Overview of program assessment at Keene.
        • Some individual academic programs’ curriculum maps. (Still to come: program assessment plans & reports.)
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes are in their catalog listings.
      • ISP (integrative studies program, general education) assessment process, including rubrics for general education outcomes (Word documents) and a summary report of assessment results (pdf file).
        • Note: The detailed information was not available when last checked.
      • College assessment: Information about the CLA and CAT, and (pdf files) CLA results.
      • The Academic Affairs Assessment Committee site includes a reporting template and information about assessment mini-grants (Word documents).
      • The TK20 assessment management system is restricted to Keene faculty & staff.
        • E-portfolio templates & examples.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Kennesaw State University (Georgia)

Kennesaw State University: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Georgia)

      • Overview and principles of Kennesaw’s assurance of learning (AOL) initiative (pdf files).
      • Instructions for AOL reports and individual academic programs’ reports & AOL Council reviews (pdf files)
      • KSU’s global learning outcomes (general education outcomes related to learning about global issues), assessment materials, & reports (pdf & Excel files).
      • Recommendations for university-wide competencies (general education outcomes, pdf file).

  • Office of Assessment and Strategic Planning

    • The Office of Assessment and Strategic Planning seeks to create an environment that supports a culture of assessment.  Through training and consultation, the Office of Assessment and Strategic Planning provides leadership and support for achieving the division and university missions by using intentionally designed assessments.
    • Assessment Team
    • Resources
    • Annual Reports
    • Contact Us

Kent State University (Ohio)

Kent State University (Ohio)

      • Overview of assessment.
      • Six steps to continuous improvement: Assessment tips & guidelines.
        • Also, see the video modules on assessment from Kent State’s Faculty Development Center (handouts & associated documents are pdf files).
      • Annual assessment reports (pdf files).
      • Assessment guidelines for new/revised programs (the general curriculum guidelines are pdf files).
      • Information about & from the assessment advisory committee (pdf files).
      • Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf files).
      • Information about Kent State’s AQIP program (the portfolio and reports are pdf files).
      • Results from assessment instruments including NSSE, CLA, and alumni surveys, and Kent State’s annual assessment report (pdf files).
      • Information about WEAVEonline. (WEAVE access is restricted to Kent State faculty & staff.)
      • Information about periodic academic program review (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment and accreditation resources.

Kenyon College (Ohio)

Kenyon College (Ohio)

      • Department outcomes assessment
        • Reporting templates (Word documents).
      • General education assessment
        • General education outcomes.
        • Reporting templates (Word documents).
      • The templates are also in the department chairs’ page on assessment and the annual report.
      • Survey results, including NSSE and senior & alumni surveys (pdf & Excel files).
        • The alumni surveys page also includes examples of departmental outcomes assessment surveys.

King’s College (Pennsylvania)

King’s College (Pennsylvania)

      • Handbook on Excellence in Learning and Pedagogy (HELP) from the Kings’ College Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, with information about
        • the assessment process,
        • principles and examples of course-based assessment,
        • on-campus resources, and
        • detailed examples (restricted to King’s College faculty and staff).

Kingsborough Community College (New York)

Kingsborough Community College: Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning (New York)

      • Assessment: Chapter 5 (pp 38-44) in KCC’s Middle States periodic review report describes assessment processes in degree programs, general education, individual courses, special academic programs, and student affairs (pdf file).
        • The archives of previous assessment material include
          • KCC’s assessment plan.
          • College-level mission, goals & objectives (MGOs) and report on assessments of MGOs.
          • Outcomes for academic & student support services and relevant survey results.
          • Learning outcomes for individual courses.
      • Institutional Research: KCC’s results on CCSSE and CUNY-system surveys (pdf files).
      • Links to other resources.

Kirkwood Community College (Iowa)

Kirkwood Community College (Iowa)

      • The Learning Outcomes component of KCC’s Vanguard Project site includes a status report on assessment activities/accomplishments at KCC. (See project plans and objectives.)

Knox College (Illinois)

Knox College: Office of Academic Assessment (Illinois)

      • General education learning goals.
      • Resources
        • Guide (handbook) for academic programs (pdf file).
        • Guide for periodic academic program review (pdf file).
        • Assessment timetable.
        • Sample assessment tools and reports (pdf files).
        • Bibliography, and links to other assessment resources.
      • Glossary.
      • Survey and annual reports are restricted to Knox faculty & staff.

Kutztown University (Pennsylvania)

Kutztown University: Office of Assessment (Pennsylvania)

      • Overviews of general education, institutional-, and program-level assessment at KU (pdf files).
      • Assessment basics: Definitions, tips, & guidelines.
        • Also, see About the Office of Assessment.
      • Results from alumni and NSSE surveys (pdf files).
      • Assessment newsletters (pdf files).
      • Information about assessment mini-grants, including reports from past recipients (pdf files).
      • Materials from on-campus assessment symposia (agendas are pdf files; presentations are Powerpoint files).
      • Links to other assessment resources, including examples by academic department.

Kuyper College (Michigan)

Kuyper College (Michigan)

      • Overview of assessment at Kuyper.

LaGuardia Community College (New York)

LaGuardia Community College (New York)

      • About
        • History of assessment at LaGuardia, and graphic of the general feedback loop (assessment) process.
        • Core competencies (general education outcomes) and (pdf files) rubrics.
      • Faculty
        • Periodic program review (PPR) timeline and (pdf file) guidelines. (The PPR sample report was not available when last checked.)
        • Program competency statements and core competency grids (course*outcomes maps for the core competencies) for individual degree programs (pdf files).
        • Information for students & faculty about e-portfolios (pdf files).

Lake Superior State University (Michigan)

Lake Superior State University: Assessment Office (Michigan)

      • Overview of assessment at LSSU.
      • University assessment plan (pdf file).
        • HLC monitoring report & LSSU response (pdf files) and reports (Word documents).
        • Course-level assessment calendar (grid) and evaluation guide for assessment plans (pdf files).
      • General education assessment
        • Annual assessment reports (pdf files).
        • General education learning outcomes, with their associated courses and assessment reports (Word documents).
        • ETS Proficiency Profile results (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Senior exit survey & results (pdf files, Word documents, html pages).
        • Information from the general education committee (Word documents, pdf files).
        • Information from the Michigan Department of Education about high school curriculum (pdf files).
        • Videos about TracDat and the Critical Thinking Achievement Test.
      • Program-level assessment
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes (pdf files, Word documents).
          • Still to come: Programs’ assessment plans and annual reports.
        • Assessment review cycle (pdf file) & process (Word document).
      • University assessment
        • Assessment landscape summary of administrative unit assessment activities (note: this is still being developed.).
        • NSSE results (pdf file).
      • Assessment information for academic support services
        • Results from surveys, including NSSE (pdf files).
        • Help & examples: Resources & information from LSSU’s assessment committee and other institutions.
        • The assessment landscape table is still being developed.
      • Training & professional development
        • Workshops: schedule & descriptions.
        • Academic assessment tutorials & tools (video & pdf files).
        • Assessment guidelines & tips for administrative & support units (pdf files).
        • TracDat tutorials & guides (video & pdf files). TracDat access is restricted to LSSU faculty & staff.
          • The home page also has links to TracDat and some training material.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about & from LSSU’s assessment committee (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Annual lists of assessment resources: planning guidelines, reporting templates, & reports (mostly pdf files).
        • Committee reports (pdf files).
        • The committee’s internal website includes links to many of the resources listed above as well as links to other online assessment resources.
      • Institutional perceptions of assessment at LSSU
        • The assessment culture matrix survey (pdf file) is based on HLC’s Levels of Implementation matrix.
        • Survey results showing LSSU’s development.
      • Information from LSSU’s participation in HLC’s Academy for Assessment (pdf files, Word documents; some materials are restricted to LSSU faculty & staff).
      • Overview of assessment at LSSU.
      • University assessment plan (pdf file).
        • HLC monitoring report & LSSU response (pdf files) and reports (Word documents).
        • Course-level assessment calendar (grid) and evaluation guide for assessment plans (pdf files).
      • General education assessment
        • Annual assessment reports (pdf files).
        • General education learning outcomes, with their associated courses and assessment reports (Word documents).
        • ETS Proficiency Profile results (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Senior exit survey & results (pdf files, Word documents, html pages).
        • Information from the general education committee (Word documents, pdf files).
        • Information from the Michigan Department of Education about high school curriculum (pdf files).
        • Videos about TracDat and the Critical Thinking Achievement Test.
      • Program-level assessment
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes (pdf files, Word documents).
          • Still to come: Programs’ assessment plans and annual reports.
        • Assessment review cycle (pdf file) & process (Word document).
      • University assessment
        • Assessment landscape summary of administrative unit assessment activities (note: this is still being developed.).
        • NSSE results (pdf file).
      • Assessment information for academic support services
        • Results from surveys, including NSSE (pdf files).
        • Help & examples: Resources & information from LSSU’s assessment committee and other institutions.
        • The assessment landscape table is still being developed.
      • Training & professional development
        • Workshops: schedule & descriptions.
        • Academic assessment tutorials & tools (video & pdf files).
        • Assessment guidelines & tips for administrative & support units (pdf files).
        • TracDat tutorials & guides (video & pdf files). TracDat access is restricted to LSSU faculty & staff.
          • The home page also has links to TracDat and some training material.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about & from LSSU’s assessment committee (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Information about assessment mini-grants (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Annual lists of assessment resources: planning guidelines, reporting templates, & reports (mostly pdf files).
        • Committee reports (pdf files).
        • The committee’s internal website includes links to many of the resources listed above as well as links to other online assessment resources.
      • Institutional perceptions of assessment at LSSU
        • The assessment culture matrix survey (pdf file) is based on HLC’s Levels of Implementation matrix.
        • Survey results showing LSSU’s development.
      • Information from LSSU’s participation in HLC’s Academy for Assessment (pdf files, Word documents; some materials are restricted to LSSU faculty & staff).

Lander University (South Carolina)

Lander University: Office of Institutional Assessment and Effectiveness (South Carolina)

      • The schedule of planned assessments summarizes Lander’s assessment processes (pdf file).
      • Institutional effectiveness:
        • Assessment reports from individual academic & administrative/support units and for each general education outcome (Word documents; the general education reports were not available when last checked).
        • Strategic goals reporting calendar and “report cards” (pdf files).
        • Accountability and institutional effectiveness reports to the SC Commission on Higher Education (pdf files).
      • Results from the Proficiency Profile and from NSSE and other surveys (pdf files).

Lane Community College (Oregon)

Lane Community College: Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning (Oregon)

      • Plans, reports, & assessment events include:
        • Lane’s overall and (pdf file) general education assessment plans.
          • The overall plan includes guidelines for program assessment planning.
        • College and discipline assessment summaries & reports (mostly pdf files).
      • FAQ.
      • Lane’s core (general education) learning outcomes and associated rubrics (pdf files, Word documents).
        • The rubrics page includes a course-level assessment planning worksheet (Word document).
      • Resources for developing course learning outcomes.
      • IRAP’s research studies page includes CCSSE and other survey results (pdf files).
      • Lane’s institutional context includes a variety of student-success projects & initiatives.
      • About the A-Team (assessment committee).
        • Current projects includes information about mini-grants.

Laney College (California)

Laney College (California)

      • Overview and guidelines for student learning outcomes (SLOs).
      • Institutional learning (general education) outcomes and (Word documents) assessment guidelines and reporting rubric.
      • How to write SLOs: Guidelines, examples, & worksheets (html pages, Word documents, pdf files).
      • TaskStream instructions (video, pdf, & Excel files; TaskStream access is restricted to Laney faculty & staff).
      • Archived SLO and assessment reports and plans from individual academic programs (Word documents, Excel files; current reports use the TaskStream system).
      • Rubric guidelines and (pdf files, Word documents) examples.
      • Information from & about the Learning Assessment Committee (LAC).
        • Recent minutes & agendas (pdf files; older minutes & agendas were not available when last checked.
      • Assessment calendar (Word document) & events, and event photo gallery.
      • Links to other resources.

Las Positas College (California)

Las Positas College (California)

      • Overview of the SLO (student learning outcomes) process (links are to pdf files).
      • LPC core competencies (general education outcomes, pdf file).
      • Guidelines for developing & reporting program outcomes (links are to html pages & pdf files).
      • Timeline for developing & implementing assessment of student learning outcomes (SLOs).
      • SLO (core competencies) assessment results (pdf file).
      • Information about assessment mini-grants and examples of department- & course-level SLO faculty projects (pdf files).
      • Resources include
        • SLO’s from individual courses and academic & student services programs (pdf files).
        • Online form for reporting course- & department-level SLOs (please do not enter anything into this form).
        • Guidelines for SLO and program review reporting with eLumen; eLumen access is restricted to LPC faculty & staff.
        • Presentations & guidelines (pdf files).
      • SLO committee agendas & minutes (pdf files).
      • The archives include older SLO committee minutes, reports, & plans (pdf files).

Lebanese American University (Lebanon)

Institutional Research & Assessment

Contact: Diane Issa-Nauffal, Ph.D.

Lehman College (New York)

Lehman College: Office of Assessment and Planning (New York)

      • FAQ.
      • Glossary.
      • Calendar.
      • Toolkit.
        • Templates and tools include tips & guidelines, reporting templates, and an online newsletter (pdf files).
        • Bibliography and links to other resources.
      • Learning outcomes & curriculum maps from individual undergraduate majors & programs (pdf files).
      • Institutional effectiveness
        • Assessment in administrative & support units
          • Timeline and a map of data sources for administrative/support unit assessment (pdf files).
          • Resources (pdf files)
            • Assessment handbook.
            • Annual report.
            • Reporting templates, checklists, & rubrics.
            • Potential measures for non-teaching units.
        • College data include NSSE results (pdf file). Results from CUNY’s Student Experience Survey are restricted to CUNY-system faculty & staff.
      • Information from the assessment council. (Minutes are pdf files).

Lewis University (Illinois)

Lewis University

One University Parkway, Romeoville, IL 60446-2200

Office of Assessment

http://www.lewisu.edu/welcome/offices/assessment/resources.htm

Liberty University (Virginia)

Liberty University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Virginia)

  • Overview of assessment and assessment at Liberty.
  • Assessment Calendar.
  • Assessment Day (A-Day)
  • Results from national surveys (html pages, pdf files; NSSE results were not available when last checked). Noel-Levitz SSI (html files) and PSOL (pdf files) results are listed. Alumni survey results are also available (pdf files).
  •  Assessment-related presentations (pdf files).
  • Links to other assessment resources.
  • IE Presentations

Lincoln University (Missouri)

Lincoln University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Missouri)

      • Assessment
        • Overview, for students, about required general education & major field assessments.
        • Overview of general education assessment at LU.
        • Overview of major field assessment, and assessment methods used by each program.
        • Resources: Off-campus assessment conferences. (The other assessment-resource lists were not available when last checked.)
      • Reports (pdf files)
        • Assessment
          • Assessment progress report.
          • CAAP (critical thinking) and MFT results.
        • Results from continuing- and graduating student surveys.

Lindenwood University (Missouri)

Lindenwood University

Welcome to the Lindenwood University assessment guide. Here Lindenwood faculty and staff can find resources that will assist them in performing assessments and in learning more about best assessment practices.

  • Comprehensive website

o   http://lindenwood.libguides.com/assessment/facultyguide (Plan Guidelines)

  • Assessment report template and funding request form
  • Basic Assessment Tips
  • Common Methods and Measures
  • Instructional Unit Assessment Plan Development Checklist

o   http://lindenwood.libguides.com/assessment/resources (Resources)

  • Key resources for assessment at Lindenwood
  • Intended Educational Outcomes
  • Purposes

o   http://lindenwood.libguides.com/assessment/gened (General Education Assessment)

o   http://lindenwood.libguides.com/assessment/development (Professional Development)

  • Lists assessment related professional development opportunities

o   http://lindenwood.libguides.com/c.php?g=380478&p=2577099 Assessment Tips, includes archived assessment tips.

  • Assessment: Program and Institutional Assessment Online Resources

http://lindenwood.libguides.com/assessment/internetresources

Lock Haven University (Pennsylvania)

Lock Haven University-Assessment

The primary use of student learning assessments is to guide faculty and the University in its efforts to improve student learning of knowledge and skills that are essential for our students to succeed in school and the work place. Additionally, student learning assessment is one source of data used during annual program reviews and in determining allocation of finances.

Every academic program at LHU is required to participate in assessments of both General Education and Program Student Learning Outcomes. Important information and guidelines concerning these learning assessments can be found in the tabs above.

Access to the following information requires a username and password:

  • Assessment (community)
  • Assessment of Program Student Learning Outcomes
  • Institutional Effectiveness
  • Program Review and Annual Reports
  • Gen Ed Templates and Rubrics
  • TracDat Portal
  • TracDat Instructions
  • General Education Learning Outcomes
  • Four Year GE Sampling Rotation
  • GE Outcomes and Procedures

The following information is accessible without a username and password:

 

Loma Linda University (California)

Loma Linda University: Office of Educational Effectiveness (California)

      • Assessment
        • Presentations (video & pdf files) on developing & implementing assessment processes.
          • The templates are Word files.
          • Some include links to other assessment resources.
        • Glossary.
        • Information about annual reporting. (The academic management system is restricted to LLU faculty & staff.)
      • LLU’s institution-wide (general education) student learning outcomes
        • Definitions of & resources for each outcome (html pages, pdf files, Word documents).
        • Assessment cycle.
      • Information about LLU committees involved with educational effectiveness & assessment.
      • Information about:
        • Periodic academic program review (pdf files, Word documents).
        • LLU’s academic management system and annual program reports (pdf files; access to the AMS is restricted to LLU faculty & staff).
        • On-campus workshops related to assessment.

Long Beach City College (California)

Long Beach City College (California)

      • About assessment: Overview and FAQ.
      • Reporting forms (Word documents).
      • Tips & guidelines on how to assess SLOs (examples & resources are mostly pdf files).
        • TracDat access is restricted to LBCC faculty & staff.
      • Examples of course & program-level assessments (pdf files; the download templates page was not available when last checked).
      • Course, program, & institutional assessment reports (pdf files)
        • Institutional reports include general education assessment and CCSSE results.
      • Information about & from the assessment (ASLO) committee (reports & minutes are pdf files).
      • FAQ for students (student guide) about outcomes assessment.
      • Information about periodic course and program review (html pages, pdf files).
      • Internal resources include individual college and service units’ outcomes (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources (articles are pdf files).

Long Island University (New York)

Long Island University (New York)

      • Assessment report templates, examples, & review rubrics for LIU campuses (Word documents).
      • Assessment surveys for blended (face-to-face + online) courses (pdf files).
      • The training materials for academic deans and student support services may be useful to other faculty & staff as well (Word documents, pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • Information about LIU’s use of StudentVoice (now CampusLabs) survey management system.
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • LIU Brooklyn campus assessment website
        • Overview of assessment at the Brooklyn campus.
        • Progress reports and newsletter (pdf files).
        • Core curriculum (general education) learning goals & outcomes.
        • Templates for academic & student life assessment reporting (pdf file, Word document).
          • The Student Life page includes materials from workshops and links to other resources (Word documents, pdf & Powerpoint files, html pages).
        • About CampusLabs’ survey management system, with examples & guidelines (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Longwood University (Virginia)

Longwood University: Office of Assessment and Institutional Research (Virginia)

      • Assessment
        • Assessment reporting schedules (pdf files) and reporting template (Word document; WEAVEonline access is restricted to Longwood faculty & staff).
        • General education competencies (outcomes) and assessment process.
        • Periodic program review policy (pdf file) and reporting templates (Word documents).
        • Information about assessment mini-grants.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Information about & from on-campus assessment conference (pdf files) and workshops.
      • Institutional research includes NSSE reports (pdf files).

Lord Fairfax Community College (Virginia)

Lord Fairfax Community College: Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Office (Virginia)

      • LFCC assessment manual (pdf file):
        • FAQ and tips about designing assessment plans.
        • Calendar and a course*objectives matrix for general education assessments.
        • Forms for reporting assessment plans & results.
        • Information about academic program review.
      • General education learning goals & outcomes (pdf file).
      • Program review calendar and institutional research data from program reviews (Excel files).
      • Instructions for WEAVEonline (pdf & Powerpoint files; WEAVE access is restricted to LFCC faculty & staff).

Los Angeles Mission College (California)

Los Angeles Mission College (California)

      • Institutional (general education) learning outcomes.
      • Introduction and (pdf files) Instructions for developing & implementing assessment processes.
        • Related documents include tips, guidelines, and links to other resources (Word documents, pdf files).
      • General education and individual academic units’ learning outcomes and assessment reports (online interactive menu, and pdf & Excel files).
        • College reports on outcomes assessment status (pdf files).
        • Assessment schedule (Excel file) and course assessment plan (Word document).
      • Guide (FAQ) for students about assessment at LAMC.
      • Information about and from an on-campus assessment retreat.
        • Retreat information & survey results (pdf files).
        • Assessment tips, guidelines, & examples (Word documents, Powerpoint file).

Los Angeles Valley College (California)

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 course SLOs, then find a course, then select a subject. Select a course and see Section II (course content and objectives).
        • Academic, administrative & service units’ assessment plans & reports (Word documents) and course-assessment tracking reports (Excel files).
      • Course assessment reports
        • Guidelines (Powerpoint files).
        • Assessment status (tracking, Excel files) and reports (Word documents).
        • 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 (pdf & Powerpoint files).
        • Pathway alignment grids are Word documents.
      • 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.

Loyola Marymount University (California)

Loyola Marymount University: Office of Assessment (California)

      • Overview and guiding principles.
      • Undergraduate learning goals & outcomes (general education).
      • FAQ.
      • Resources include
        • Tips, guidelines, & examples (examples include pdf files & video recordings of workshop presentations).
        • Glossary.
        • External funding opportunities.
        • Bibliography.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Assessment reports are restricted to LMU faculty & staff.
      • Celebrating assessment at LMU: “Best practice” examples & impacts.
      • LMU’s NSSE results.
      • Information about LMU assessment mini-grants.
      • Information from and about on-campus workshops (pdf files).

Loyola University Chicago (Illinois)

Loyola University Chicago: Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy (Illinois)

      • About assessment at Loyola: Overview of & guidelines for assessment at LUC. (Note: this page’s link to the reporting template did not work when last checked. Use the plan and report templates page instead.)
      • Assessment plan and report templates (Word documents).
      • Glossary.
      • Guidelines & resources for writing learning outcomes and using rubrics.
      • Best practices guidelines & resources for developing assessment plans.
      • About ePortfolios & assessment, and a guide (Word document) to implementing e-portfolios at LUC.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Macalester College (Minnesota)

Macalester College: Assessment Office (Minnesota)

      • Assessment at Macalester: Faculty, administration, & student roles in assessment. The statement of student learning has college-wide (general education) learning goals & outcomes.
      • Instruments used for institutional assessment at Macalester. Results are not available on the website.
      • Overview & schedule for general education assessment. Results are not available on the website.
      • Individual academic departments’ assessment plans (pdf files). Departments’ assessment tools are restricted to Macalester faculty & staff.
      • Co-curricular assessment leads to Macalester’s Student Affairs website. It does not include assessment information.
      • Resources include:
        • Glossary and suggested readings.
        • Tips & guidelines (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
        • Assessment reports (see using assessment) are restricted to Macalester faculty & staff.

Madison Area Technical College (Wisconsin)

Madison Area Technical College: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Wisconsin)

      • Overview of MATC’s assessment process.
      • FAQ.
      • Assessment resources include (pdf files unless indicated otherwise):
        • Glossary.
        • A video presentation on assessment (not available when last checked) and assessment guidelines & tips.
        • Information and a video presentation about MATC’s core abilities (general education outcomes).
        • Program assessment handbook and guidelines.
      • Quick tips on formative and summative assessment.

Malone University (Ohio)

Malone University: Assessment of Student Learning (Ohio)

      • Principles of assessment.
      • Assessment manuals
        • Manuals for academic programs and administrative/support units (pdf files).
        • Reporting templates (Word documents).
      • Assessment reports from individual academic and administrative/support units including outcomes, assessment methods, results, and impacts (pdf files).
      • Background information
        • Survey results, including NSSE reports (pdf files; also see Ongoing Projects).
        • Institutional portrait (IR data).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • About the assessment implementation committee.

Mansfield University (Pennsylvania)

Mansfield University (Pennsylvania)

      • Assessment at MU: University assessment plan (pdf file).
      • The Excellence in Higher Education guide (pdf file) includes a model for assessment.
      • Resources include tips, guidelines, & links to other resources for:
        • Developing learning outcomes.
        • Developing & using rubrics.
        • Writing course syllabi that include learning outcomes (pdf files).
      • Information about general education workshops and a University Day assessment presentation (pdf files).

Marietta College (Ohio)

Marietta College (Ohio)

      • Overview.
      • Assessment standards (general education outcomes) & (pdf files) rubrics.
      • Glossary.
      • Links to other assessment resources
      • Still to come:
        • “How to” guides for implementing assessment processes.
        • Assessment reports.

Marquette University (Wisconsin)

Marquette University (Wisconsin)

      • Assessment process 
        • Assessment cycle and goals.
        • Learning outcomes framework: Institutional and core (general education) learning outcomes.
          • Still to come: Program & course outcomes.
        • Policies, procedures, and calendar (pdf files).
        • FAQ.
        • Information about & from the assessment committee (pdf files).
      • Individual academic units’ assessment plans (pdf files).
      • Assessment reports (pdf files)
        • Institutional: Survey results.
        • Program:
          • Overview of measures used and any actions taken as a result of assessments.
          • Examples of academic program improvements.
        • Archived reports are restricted to Marquette faculty & staff.
      • Assessment resources (mostly pdf files)
        • For program assessment leaders (PALS): Links to some of the other resources on Marquette’s site.
        • Assessment library and reference materials, including links to other assessment resources.
        • Materials from on-campus workshops and seminars.
        • Guidelines for Bloom’s taxonomy.
      • ARMS (Compliance Assist’s assessment reporting management system) is restricted to Marquette faculty & staff.

Marymount University (Virginia)

Marymount University: Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness (Virginia)

      • Handbooks for assessment in academic and administrative/support units (pdf files).
      • A brief overview of Marymount’s assessment process for administrative/support units (pdf file) and an associated Powerpoint presentation.
      • Glossary (pdf file). This is an annotated glossary of key terms. The handbook for academic units includes a more extensive glossary but without the annotations.
      • Assessment reporting templates for academic and administrative/support units (Word documents).
      • Examples of assessment from some academic units (Word documents).
      • Assessment reports from individual academic units (pdf files).
      • Information about the university assessment committee.
      • Reports from surveys of graduating students and alumni (pdf files).
      • Resources include presentations on assessment processes and results (pdf files).
      • Guidelines for periodic program review (pdf file).

Maryville University (Missouri)

Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri

Institutional Research – outcomes data from schools of Business and Education

Academic Affairs

NILOA article discussing the Office of Student Life’s assessment process

 

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts: Office of Institutional Research

      • Assessment
        • FAQ (pdf file).
        • Glossary.
        • Institution-wide learning outcomes (AAC&U’s LEAP outcomes),and (pdf file) core curriculum learning outcomes.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Students’ ePortfolios. Content varies from student to student. For an overview, see the College portfolio A Whole Student Experience.
      • Schedule of assessment surveys.
      • Program review handbook, schedule, and related documents (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes (pdf file).
      • News: Assessment-related events & resources (html pages, pdf files).
      • Assessment forum: Links to other resources (html pages, pdf files).

McKendree University (Illinois)

McKendree University (Illinois)

      • Assessment plan & timeline.
      • General education learning outcomes.
      • Current assessment development activities.
      • Sources of evidence, & some results.
      • Process for using assessment evidence in planning, and “closing the loop” highlights.
      • Resources include:
        • Information about surveys & performance tests used at McKendree.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • YouTube video about assessment at McK.

Medgar Evers College (New York)

Medgar Evers College: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (New York)

      • Tools (pdf files)
        • Template for annual strategic planning report.
        • Handout from Walvoord workshop on assessment.
        • Types of evidence for student learning.
        • Guidelines & data for strategic planning.
        • Handout on Bloom’s taxonomy.
      • General education outcomes.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Mercer County Community College (New Jersey)

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

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

Mercer University (Georgia)

Mercer University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Georgia)

      • Overview of assessment at Mercer.
      • Glossary, principles of good practice, and information for students about assessment.
      • Assessment calendar.
      • About the assessment council.
      • Compliance Assist’s assessment management system is restricted to Mercer faculty & staff.
        • The assessment record system managed and archives previous years’ assessment information. Update access is restricted to Mercer faculty & staff.
          • To see instructions, and sample records for academic & administrative/support units, use samples as both username & password and select a year.
          • To see academic programs’ and administrative/support units’ outcomes and assessment methods, use view as both username & password and select a year.
      • Assessment plans, reporting forms, and results for general education outcomes (pdf files).
      • NSSE results (html pages, pdf file). Institutional testing, which includes other survey results, is restricted to Mercer faculty & staff.
      • Guidelines & forms for periodic program review.
      • Resources include books & videos available on campus.
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Merritt College (California)

Merritt College (California)

      • Overview of outcomes assessment.
      • For faculty: Using the TaskStream tool to report assessment plans & reports (pdf files).
      • Institutional (general education) learning outcomes.
      • Information about & from the student learning outcomes assessment committee (SLOAC; minutes & agendas are pdf files).
      • Calendar of on-campus training events.

Mesa Community College (Arizona)

Mesa Community College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Arizona)

      • General education, developmental, and workplace learning outcomes (pdf file).
      • Assessment results; the full reports include assessment methods and results (pdf files).
      • Student Outcomes Committee information and Results Outreach Committee (ROC) mini-grant information and forms (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Information about periodic academic program review (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Results from student surveys, including CCSSE (pdf files).

Metropolitan State University of Denver (Colorado)

Metropolitan State University of Denver: Office of Academic Assessment (Colorado)

      • Assessment report dates (the memo is a Word document).
      • About:
        • University, general studies, and college assessment committees.
        • Program assessment (the memo is a pdf file).
      • Forms for assessment reporting (pdf file), curriculum mapping (Excel file), and program review (Word document).
      • Initiatives: Recipients of program assessment awards.
      • NSSE reports (pdf files) and information about NSSE’s report builder.
      • Reports are restricted to MSU faculty & staff.
      • Links to other assessment resources.
        • The helpful tools (a glossary, guidelines, and rubrics) were not available when last checked.

Miami Dade College (Florida)

Miami Dade College (Florida)

      • MDC’s general education learning outcomes.
      • Video about outcomes assessment at MDC (swf file).
      • FAQ.
      • Assessment
        • Tasks used in MDC’s college-wide (general education) outcomes assessment process.
        • Overview and history of MDC’s assessment process (the information on these html pages is combined in the pdf file The Process).
        • Rubrics for MDC’s college-wide (general education) learning outcomes (also available in a pdf file).
        • The online student assessment itself is restricted to MDC faculty, staff, & students.
      • Mapping
        • Templates and examples of course & program maps (Excel files), and an overview of MDC’s mapping project.
        • Student services learning outcomes & assessment methods (pdf file).
      • Resources include
        • Guidelines for faculty and student services staff.
        • Examples of assessment methods and outcomes-based syllabi from MDC faculty (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Miami University (Ohio)

Miami University of Ohio: Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment

      • Overview of MU’s three-tiered model of assessment.
      • Full-cycle assessment (glossary).
      • Assessment briefs (newsletter, pdf files).
      • Assessment basics
        • Guidelines for designing assessment plans.
        • FAQ and assessment glossary.
        • Examples of rubrics for general education skills and abilities.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Outcomes in the majors: Overview & guidelines (html page, pdf files).
      • Information about surveys used at MU.
      • A (draft) e-portfolio manual from one unit (pdf file).
      • Information about CELTUA mini-grants and reports from some recent projects (pdf files).
      • Student success plan
        • Miami Plan (general education) outcomes & assessment plans.
        • Examples of assessment in undergraduate majors (see above).
        • Assessment of student engagement, including NSSE results (pdf files).
        • Additional learning opportunities include
          • Information about co-curricular opportunities at MU.
          • Results from a survey of alumni’s employers (pdf file).
          • Assessment information from student affairs units was not available when last checked.

Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Institutional and Programmatic Student Outcomes Assessment | FOD

Ephraim Schechter, a specialist in outcomes assessment, states that student outcomes assessment is for program planning and improvement as well as accountability reporting–“telling the story,” with program improvement the primary goal. Many institutions of higher education have developed well-designed programs for institutional assessment that interconnect accountability and program improvement and have put this information on a website. The resources below provide information and Internet links on all aspects of student outcomes assessment at the institutional and programmatic level, with multiple examples of programs in place at colleges and universities throughout the United States and elsewhere. For student outcomes assessment in the classroom, please see other topics under assessment on this website.

Office of Faculty and Organizational Development

Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning and Research

      • Institutional Effectiveness Achievement Reports
        • Reporting timeline (pdf file).
        • The IE Achievement Reports (assessment reports from academic, administrative, and support units) were not available when last checked.
      • Senior exit exams
        • General education (critical thinking) test reports (pdf files).
        • Major field test instruments used by MTSU programs.
      • Results from surveys of students, alumni, employers, and faculty, including NSSE results (pdf files).
      • Procedures for academic program review (pdf files, Word documents; program review reports are restricted to MTSU faculty & staff).

Middlesex Community College (Massachusetts)

Middlesex Community College (Massachusetts)

      • Outcomes assessment
        • Plan: Timeline for developing & implementing assessment of institutional student learning outcomes (SLOs).
        • Institutional SLOs (ISLOs)
          • Rubrics for MCC’s ISLOs (pdf files).
          • Examples of outcomes & assessment methods, with some (pdf files) rubrics and results.
        • Overview of MCC’s program review process.
          • Review calendars for academic and administrative/support units, with some (pdf files) review reports.
          • Reporting templates (pdf files).
          • Guidelines & resources include program review roles & procedures and units’ mission statements.
        • Ongoing program assessment reports from some academic & administrative/support units (pdf files).
        • Assessment newsletters (pdf files).
      • Reports & surveys include results from surveys of graduating students about MCC’s core curriculum and surveys of area residents and businesses (pdf files).
      • CCSSE results (pdf files; also see CCSSE-related information on the home page).

Millersville University (Pennsylvania)

Millersville University (Pennsylvania)

      • Overview of assessment at Millersville.
      • MU’s assessment practices (Word document) and principles (pdf file).
      • Effective assessment practices: Brief guidelines for implementing assessment processes.
      • Academic outcomes assessment: General education outcomes & associated rubrics (briefs, pdf files).
        • NSSE multi-year overview (pdf file). Also, see special NSSE analyses (Excel files).
        • A description of Millersville’s student artifact repository project for general education core courses.
      • The comprehensive assessment summaries and the reports and surveys are restricted to MU faculty & staff.
      • Information about WEAVEonline. (WEAVE access is restricted to MU faculty & staff.)

Minnesota State University, Mankato

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

      • FAQ.
      • Student learning outcomes (general education).
      • General education assessment
        • Overview of MNSU’s general education assessment process.
        • Learning outcomes, assessment method, and rubrics for each general education category.
        • Assessment reports (pdf files).
        • Information from the general education assessment committee (mostly pdf files).
      • Program/department assessment: Reporting & feedback forms (Word documents).
      • Resources include:
        • MNSU’s assessment philosophy & guidelines and an introduction to developing assessment plans.
        • Guidelines for writing learning outcomes and implementing assessment.
        • Bibliographies and links to other assessment resources.
      • Institutional surveys: Results from NSSE and student satisfaction surveys (pdf files).
      • Information from & about assessment committees (pdf files, see sub-meet).
      • Program review procedures and (pdf files) calendars.

Minnesota State University, Moorhead

Assessment 

The primary purpose of Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) is to educate our students. The true measure of our institution is how well our students learn the knowledge and skills we have determined are critical to their success as individuals, professionals, and citizens. The process of assessing student learning, then, is a vital part of understanding how well we are accomplishing our goals.

  • Assessment Activities
  • Assessment Principles

Program Outcomes

General Education

Writing-Intensive

Voluntary System of Accountability

NSSE/FSSE

University-Wide Student Learning Outcomes

Co-curricular

Policies & Procedures

Closing the Loop – Newsletter

contact: voeller@mnstate.edu

Mission College (California)

Mission College (Santa Clara, California)

      • Information about on-campus presentations.
      • Guidelines for MC assessment processes (pdf files).
      • Use of CCSSE student engagement data for institutional level outcomes (ILOs) data (pdf file).
      • Information about:
        • standardized documents and forms used at MC, including program learning outcomes, service area outcomes. (pdf files).
        • tools and resources (pdf files).
        • Assessment handbook (pdf file)
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University

      • Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness
        • Results from surveys of students & faculty, including NSSE/FSSE (pdf files).
        • Rubric examples, including general education and thesis/dissertation rubrics (pdf files).
      • Division of Student Affairs, Office of Assessment
        • About student affairs assessment at MSU.
        • Pre-assessment worksheet: Guidelines for planning assessments (pdf file).
        • Reports from surveys (pdf and Powerpoint files).
        • Resources include a bibliography on student-affairs-related assessment and (pdf file) guidelines for developing assessment processes.

Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Office of Assessment

      • NILOA Occasional Paper on assessment for improvement (pdf file).
      • Assessment shorts: Examples of MSU assessment.
      • Assessment blog.
      • Resources include:
        • Reporting templates and tips & guidelines (Word documents).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • College assessment reports:
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes (html pages).
        • The college assessment process summaries also include their programs’ outcomes (pdf files).
      • Evidence of student learning: NSSE results (pdf files).
      • Standardized surveys & tests
        • Descriptions of instruments used at MSU (the tracker, a pdf file, summarizes when each instrument was used).
        • NSSE and exit exam results (pdf files).
        • Proficiency Profile and other results are restricted to MSU faculty & staff.
      • Quality initiative project and public affairs documents: Assessments related to MSU’s public affairs mission (mostly pdf & Powerpoint files).

Missouri Valley College

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).
      • Periodic program review guidelines & reports (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Moberly Area Community College (Missouri)

Moberly Area Community College: Office of Institutional Research (Missouri)

      • Overview of outcomes assessment at MACC.
      • Institutional data and statistics include CAPP and student survey results, and an assessment annual report (pdf files).

Modesto Junior College (California)

Modesto Junior College (California)

      • About assessment at MJC.
      • Handbook (pdf file).
      • Assessment & program review cycle & schedule.
      • Institutional & general education learning outcomes, & information about learning outcomes for courses, academic programs, and administrative & service units.
      • Learning outcome (LO) assessment
        • Curriculum-map grids (Excel files) & assessment reports (Word documents) from some academic programs.
        • Pdf files of programs, general education, & institutional outcomes.
      • Materials from MJC’s outcomes assessment day (pdf files).
        • Discoveries are videos of some presentations.
      • Information about & from the assessment workgroup (minutes & agendas are pdf files).

Mohawk Valley Community College (New York)

Mohawk Valley Community College: Office of Institutional Research and Analysis (New York)

      • Principles of assessment.
      • The handbook includes:
        • An overview of assessment at MVCC.
        • A glossary (pdf file).
        • Guidelines & resources for assessment activities and for developing & using rubrics.
      • College competencies (general education outcomes).
      • Results from surveys of graduates (alumni; pdf files) and Powerpoint presentations about assessment.
        • Other survey results are restricted to MVCC faculty & staff.
      • Information about the institutional effectiveness council (assessment committee).
      • Links to other resources.

Monmouth University (New Jersey)

Monmouth University (New Jersey)

From first-year advising to career services, as well as Experiential Education, Monmouth helps leaders look forward right from the very first day. Our students, in turn, gain valuable experience outside the classroom. And it’s those out-of-the-classroom experiences that have led our more than 48,000 alumni to successful careers throughout the Northeast, the country, and around the world.

  • 93 percent of 2014 graduates are either engaged in full-time employment, attending graduate or professional school or not employed full-time by choice. (SOURCE: Class of 2014 alumni survey, 6–9 months after May Commencement)
  • 78 percent of MU students have completed a practicum, internship, co-op, or similar “real-world” experience by their senior year—30 percentage points above the national average at comparable institutions. (SOURCE: 2015 National Survey of Student Engagement)

Montana State University

Montana State University

      • Guidelines & tips for course– and program-level assessment and a rubric used to review course-level learning outcomes (pdf files).
      • Templates for academic departments’ assessment plans & reports (Word documents).
      • Individual academic departments’ assessment plans & reports (pdf files). The database of assessment plans & reports was not available when last checked.
      • Information about periodic program review (pdf files).
      • Archived (historical) pages, being reviewed to see if they’re still accurate:
        • Background of outcomes assessment at MSU.
        • Assessment policy, principles, standards, and useful techniques.
        • Assessment plans and reports for undergraduate majors, and a rubric used to review assessment plans (pdf files).
        • General education
          • A brief overview of MSU’s assessment process.
          • About MSU’s CORE 2.0 general education program.
          • The Hewlett project report was not available when last checked.
        • Information about capstone courses.
        • Senior survey results (pdf files) and related data (institutional research results); these have been kept up to date.
        • Information about periodic program review.
        • Links to assessment resources (this website) and a bibliography.

Montana State University Billings

Montana State University Billings, Institutional Research, Analysis, and Programming

Program Assessment Overview

Course Assessment

CORE 2.0

 

 

Useful Links

 

Montgomery College (Maryland)

Montgomery College (Maryland)

      • Why and how we do outcomes assessment: FAQ and (pdf file) assessment plan.
      • Student learning outcomes
        • Brief overviews of course-level and general education assessment at MC.
        • Guidelines for developing outcomes (pdf file).
        • Course descriptions in the course catalog include course outcomes. (Editing access to the curriculum website is restricted to Montgomery faculty & staff).
      • General education course assessment
        • Overview and (pdf file) schedule. Assessment plans & reports are restricted to MC faculty & staff.
        • General education competencies (outcomes) and assessment plan (pdf & Powerpoint files).
        • Rubrics for each competency (Word documents) and guidelines (pdf files) for using the rubrics.
        • Assessment reporting forms (Word documents).
        • Information from an on-campus orientation (Powerpoint file).
      • Program assessment
        • Overview and schedule.
        • Assessment reporting form (Word document).
      • Course assessment schedule and process (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
      • Newsletter (pdf file).
      • Glossary
      • Resources
        • Assessment plan & newsletters
        • FAQ.
        • The forms & instructions mentioned above.
        • TracDat instructions (pdf files) & FAQ (TracDat access is restricted to MC faculty & staff).
        • Links to other resources.

Moraine Valley Community College (Illinois)

Moraine Valley Community College:  Academic Assessment  (Illinois)

ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT

The Assessment of Student Academic Achievement office generates rich and useful information about student achievement that leads to improved student learning. We oversee the college’s assessment plan to measure, document, and improve student learning. We collaborate with faculty to develop assessment strategies for courses and programs, direct implementation of the General Education Assessment Plan and share assessment activities with the wider college community.

Because of its commitment to student learning, the college intends to provide frequent and useful feedback to students about their learning. The college encourages the faculty to use a variety of assessment methods, including classroom discussion, projects, essay and report writing, research, rubrics, and objective tests. Students have opportunities to express opinions about their educational experiences on campus through surveys and interviews.

Assessment of student learning results are used to drive improvement to curriculum, instruction, and student learning. Additionally, assessment shows college stakeholders how students perform and which areas to target for improvement.

To reach the Assessment of Student Academic Achievement office, please call Gabe Estill at (708) 974-5349, orCatherine Dixon at (708) 974-5253.

Academic Assessment

  • Assessment Levels
    • Course
    • Program
    • General Education
  • Five-Year Assessment Plan with Annual Student Assessment Plan and Report
    • Why Moraine Valley performs assessment
    • College Assessment Plan: CPR
    • Cycle
    • Plan
    • Report
    • For more information, consult the Assessment Office’s brochure.
  • Resources
    • For Department Chairs
    • For Student Development Personnel

Morehead State University (Kentucky)

Morehead State University:  Institutional Research and Analysis (Kentucky)

      • OA&A reviews & ratings of academic and administrative/support units’ assessment plans & reports (Excel files).
      • Login to Faculty 180 and WEAVE is restricted to MSU faculty & staff.

Mount Vernon Nazarene University (Ohio)

Mount Vernon Nazarene University: Institutional Effectiveness Office (Ohio)

      • Strategic planning for student learning units (pdf files).
        • The assessment summary report includes methods and results.
        • Guidelines for developing & reporting assessment processes.
        • Rubric for evaluating units’ assessment plans.
      • Results from student surveys (pdf files).

Mount Wachusett Community College (Massachusetts)

Mount Wachusett Community College

Outcomes assessment is an ongoing process aimed at measuring and improving student learning. It involves making our expectations explicit and public; setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality; systematically gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards; and using the resulting information to document, explain and improve performance. Assessment helps us create a shared academic culture dedicated to assuring and improving the quality of higher education.

Nassau Community College (New York)

Nassau Community College: Office for Assessment and Program Review (New York)

      • Overview of academic assessment at NCC.
        • Overview of course level assessment.
          • Guidelines (pdf file) & template (Excel file) for annual assessment report.
          • General education learning goals & outcomes (pdf file).
        • Program level assessment: Procedures for periodic program review (pdf file).
        • About assessment committees.
        • Resources
          • The Concepts and Procedures assessment manual (pdf file) includes guidelines for planning & implementing course level assessment, a glossary, and assessment-planning/reporting matrices & examples.
          • Quickstart guides for classroom assessment and TaskStream’s assessment management tools (pdf files).
          • Assessment plan template (Excel file) and planning & reporting matrices (Word documents).
          • Program review template (Word document) and instructions & procedures (pdf files).
          • Links to other assessment resources & references.
      • Exemplary assessment practices at NCC, and materials from on-campus assessment symposia (pdf files).
      • Guidelines (pdf file) & application (Word document) for assessment mini-grants.

Nazareth College (New York)

Nazareth College: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (New York)

      • Nazareth’s framework for assessment (pdf file).
      • Academic assessment
        • Reporting forms for assessment plans & results (Word documents).
        • OIRA’s evaluation rubric for assessment reports and annual reports on the status of assessment at Nazareth (pdf files).
        • Information about periodic academic program review (pdf files; the group exercise is a Word document).
      • Administrative assessment: Planning & reporting forms (Word documents).
      • Materials from on-campus assessment workshops (pdf, Powerpoint, & Excel files, Word documents).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Nevada State College

Nevada State College

      • About outcomes assessment at NSC.
      • Assessment glossary.
      • Learning outcomes assessment: Individual units’ outcomes, assessment rubrics, methods, & results (pdf files except for data which are in are Excel files).
      • Assessment (program review) reports (pdf files).

New Jersey Institute of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology: Office of Institutional Research and Planning

      • NJIT institutional learning goals and core competencies.
      • Program assessment model (jpg file).
      • Information about periodic program review includes program and core competency assessment status reports & studies (pdf files, Word documents, YouTube podcasts).
      • Template for reporting assessment plans & activities (Word document).
      • Assessment guides include NJIT and other assessment resources (pdf files, videos, html pages).
        • The NJIT Library’s ResearchGuide on grading & assessment includes links to still other assessment resources.
      • A list of assessment surveys conducted at NJIT.

New Mexico Junior College

New Mexico Junior College

      • Assessment handbook (pdf file).
      • Assessment schedule and rotation cycle (pdf files).
      • Institutional (general education) learning outcomes.
      • Annual reports (pdf files).
      • Tools include
        • Material from in-service training (pdf files).
        • Reporting forms and worksheet (Word documents).
      • HLC statements on assessment (pdf files).

New Mexico State University

New Mexico State University: Office of Assessment

      • The institutional statement on assessment is a general overview of assessment (pdf file).
      • Five levels of assessment
        • Assessment of the baccalaureate experience (pdf files)
          • The mission, goals, and objectives include NMSU’s overall learning goals for baccalaureate students. Also, see the baccalaureate experience self-rating rubric (assessment instrument).
          • Annual assessment reports. The 2011-12 report includes the learning goals, the rubric, and a description of the administration method and results.
          • CLA results from the Office of Institutional Analysis.
            • The OIA site also includes NSSE results.
          • Information about & from the committee for the assessment of student learning across the baccalaureate experience .
        • General education assessment
          • New Mexico’s state common core areas and assessment guidelines (the reporting form and rubric are Word documents; note: the link to the state site did not work when last checked).
          • Alignment of NMSU’s baccalaureate learning experience objectives and the state common core (pdf file).
          • Annual reports include assessment methods & results (pdf files).
          • Information about & from the committee for the assessment of student learning in general education (agendas, minutes, & documents are pdf files).
        • Guidelines, reporting templates, and evaluation rubrics for academic program assessment (Word documents) and annual summary reports (pdf files).
        • Guidelines and resources for course-level assessment.
        • Reporting templates & examples for co-curriculum and administration assessment (pdf files).
          • The friendly description is a Youtube video.
          • Information about & from the outcomes assessment committee for co-curriculum, administration and operations (agendas, minutes, & documents are pdf files).

New York City College of Technology

New York City College of Technology: Assessment and Institutional Research Office

      • NYCCT’s (general education) learning goals.
      • Assessment plan
        • Assessment committee policies (pdf file) and organizational chart (html graphic or pdf file).
        • Three-year assessment cycle (html graphic or pdf file).
        • Assessment plan & worksheet for critical courses (pdf file).
        • Guidelines (pdf file) & template (Excel file) for developing assessment tests.
        • AAC&U Value rubrics (pdf file).
      • Still to come: Assessment information for & from programs in each NYCCT school.
      • The assessment workspace is restricted to NYCCT faculty & staff.
      • NYCCT data includes IR data and results from NSSE and CUNY system surveys (pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Niagara County Community College (New York)

Niagara County Community College (New York)

Niagara University (New York)

Niagara University: Outcomes Assessment Committee (New York)

      • FAQ about designing outcomes assessment processes.
      • Documents: Schedule for assessing academic majors, and reporting forms & guidelines (Word documents) and syllabus format (pdf file).
      • Sample reports and rubrics (Word documents).
      • Link to information about MSCHE assessment documents.

Nicholls State University (Louisiana)

Nicholls State University: Office of Assessment and Institutional Research (Louisiana)

      • 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, including CLA and MAPP reports (pdf files).

North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University: Office of Institutional Research and Planning

      • Foundations
        • Defining assessment: Overview, contact information for assessment staff in various NCSU units, and (mostly pdf & Powerpoint files) assessment-related presentations.
          • Links to other assessment resources (this page).
          • Assessment staff in various NCSU units.
          • Results from surveys of students, faculty, & staff (including NSSE reports), and a calendar of student, faculty, & staff surveys.
        • Guiding principles and statements of best practice.
      • Processes
        • Undergraduate education (Office of Assessment, Division of Academic & Student Affairs)
          • Academic assessment & program review
            • About the annual assessment process with:
              • A sample report and an evaluation rubric (pdf files).
              • Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf files).
              • Links to other NCSU assessment resources.
            • Information about periodic undergraduate program review (html page, pdf files; the steering council pages are restricted to NCSU faculty & staff).
            • General education (pdf files):
              • Assessment plan & history.
              • General education competencies, assessment processes, and associated rubrics.
              • General-education-related results from University of North Carolina system-wide surveys (see Foundations / Surveys for more details).
            • Forms and resources:
              • Curriculum map and assessment report templates (Word documents).
              • Tips & guidelines on assessment methods (pdf files).
              • Links to other assessment and accreditation resources.
          • Co-curricular assessment
            • DASA academic services and Student Affairs units’ outcomes (pdf files; the Google-Drive reports are restricted to NCSU faculty & staff).
            • Information about the DASA assessment council (the members list is a pdf file).
            • Results from surveys of first-term students and links to other NCSU survey results (html pages and pdf & Powerpoint files).
            • Assessment reporting templates & instructions (Word documents) and example (pdf file).
            • Links to other assessment resources.
          • The newsletter and data request form were not available when last checked.
        • Information for graduate programs about periodic program review (pdf files) and outcomes assessment (Word document).
          • The InfoWeb data management system is restricted to NCSU faculty & staff.
        • Information about assessment for distance education. (The newsletters were not available when last checked.)
        • Information about assessment in online courses was not available when last checked.
      • Links to some of the resources mentioned above.

North Idaho College

North Idaho College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness

      • Institutional assessment:
        • Assessment plan & goals, and evaluation report (pdf files).
        • General education outcomes.
      • Institutional research: Results from surveys of students, alumni, & staff (pdf files).
      • Schedule (pdf file) and reporting checklist & template (Word documents) for periodic program review.
      • About the Voluntary Framework of Accountability project.

North Lake College (Texas)

North Lake College: Institutional Research (Texas)

      • Overview of assessment at NLC.
      • Program-level general education learning outcomes.
        • Assessment documentation (at the bottom of the page) has details about each general education outcome, guidelines for implementing the outcome in core courses, and a core-course curriculum map (pdf files).
        • Summary report on assessments of the general education outcomes, and results from a student survey (pdf files).
        • The general education assessment committee page has additional reports (pdf files).
      • Assessment of technical programs.
        • Overview.
        • Program review rubric (pdf file).
        • Summary report (pdf file).

Northeast Lakeview College (Texas)

Northeast Lakeview College: Program and Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee (Texas)

      • General education competencies and common outcomes for degree programs.
      • Assessment of student learning
        • Information about the assessment committee.
        • Still to come: NLC’s assessment policies.
      • Training & presentations material is restricted to NLC faculty & staff.
      • Links to other assessment resources.
      • NLC’s strategic plan (pdf file).

Northeastern Illinois University

Northeastern Illinois University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

      • About assessment, and comparison of assessment at various levels (course, program, college, university).
      • About NIU’s assessment advisory committee.
      • NSSE and other survey results (pdf files).

Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College

Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College

      • Overview of assessment at NEO.
      • Reports (mostly Word documents)
        • Annual institutional assessment reports include results from student surveys and general education assessments, and an overview of academic program assessment activities.
        • Academic assessment reports include an overview of NEO’s assessment process, information about assessment methods, and assessment plans & reports from individual academic programs.
      • The reporting templates for program assessment and for communication and critical thinking general education courses were not available when last checked.

Northeastern State University (Oklahoma)

Northeastern State University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Oklahoma)

      • The annual assessment reports include summaries of institution-wide and individual academic program assessment methods and results (mostly Word documents).
      • Template for reporting assessment activities and results (Word document).
      • NSSE results (pdf & Excel files, Word documents).
      • College Portrait planning documents (Word documents). NSU’s College Portrait data are here.

Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University: Office of Curriculum, Learning Design, and Academic Assessment

      • The intentional curriculum model links assessment and curriculum planning.
      • FAQ.
      • Assessment process (you must click to expand subtopics in order to see some of the items mentioned below).
        • About assessment at NAU.
        • NAU’s assessment policy (Word document).
        • Tips, guidelines, & instructions for annual assessment reporting.
        • Template (Word document) and email link for submitting assessment reports.
        • Information from the university assessment committee.
        • Reporting template and assessment committee feedback rubric (Word documents).
        • The report archives are restricted to NAU faculty & staff.
        • Still to come: NAU assessment best practices.
      • University-wide academic assessment: Information about & from ETS’ Proficiency Profile (the full report is a Word document).
      • About NAU’s assessment awards.
      • Office of Institutional Effectiveness
        • Reports from surveys of students, alumni, & faculty include NSSE/FSSE results (mostly pdf files).
        • NAU’s College Portrait.

Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University: Office of Assessment Services

      • Assessment plans
        • University assessment plan (pdf file).
        • Reporting schedules & information (guidelines) packets (pdf files) and reporting templates (Word documents).
        • Academic & support units’ assessment plans (pdf files).
      • Individual degree programs’ learning outcomes (pdf files).
      • Assessment manual.
      • Annual assessment update reporting form (Word document) and instructions & reports (pdf files).
      • Information about NIU projects in assessing writing, critical thinking, capstone courses, and student portfolios (pdf files, Word documents).
        • Assessing the assessor project and survey reports (mostly Powerpoint files).
        • Information about the CLA.
      • Alumni survey results (the reports are pdf files; detailed results are restricted to NIU faculty & staff).
      • Minutes & reports from NIU assessment committees (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Material from on-campus assessment events, including “best practice” examples (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
      • Resources include:
        • NIU links, including (pdf files) NSSE results.
        • Glossary.
        • Assessment methods used by NIU academic programs.
        • A toolkit including
          • Links to some of the resources mentioned above, and to more details about some of them.
          • Links to other resources.
          • Materials from NIU’s on-campus Assessment Expo.
          • Videotaped interviews with NIU faculty.
      • Assessment-related research from NIU faculty (pdf files).
      • NIU’s College Portrait.

Northern Michigan University

Northern Michigan University

      • Academic program assessment (Word documents unless indicated otherwise)
        • The guide to academic assessment overviews the process and includes examples and the assessment committee’s evaluation rubric.
        • The academic report template also includes the committee’s evaluation rubric.
        • The annual assessment of learning procedure includes a timetable and describes the committee’s review process
        • Examples of NMU academic program objectives (pdf file; organized by category, not by programs).
      • Some academic department reports (pdf files; some plans & reports are available, some are restricted to NMU faculty & staff).
      • Service and administrative units
        • Reporting template and instructions(Word documents).
        • Individual units’ assessment plans & reports (FY2011 plans & reports and FY2012 plans are pdf files; FY2012 reports and FY2013 & later documents are Word documents).
      • Resources include
        • Tips from the assessment committee (when last checked, this was also listed as program assessment guide) and materials from an on-campus workshop (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Northern New Mexico College

Northern New Mexico College, Institutional Research

Mission: The office of Institutional Research (IR) collects, analyzes, organizes and disseminates data and institutional information to support Northern’s mission.

Vision: The office of Institutional Research will support student success and Northern’s effectiveness by collecting and providing accurate data, information, and institutional research in a timely manner.

Assessment – Northern New Mexico College

  • Student Achievement Information (pdf files).
  • Archived Reports on NNMC’s Common Core for multiple years (pdf files)
  • Institutional Assessment Plan
  • Portfolio Guidelines Template
  • Departmental assessment feedback reports (pdf files)
  • Access to WEAVE limited to faculty and staff
  • Reporting template (Word doc) and evaluation rubric (pdf file) for program assessment reports.
  • Institutional research has reports from student surveys (pdf files)
  • Common core assessment reports for multiple academic years (pdf files).
  • Links to other assessment resources.
  • Office of the Provost

Northern Virginia Community College

Northern Virginia Community College: Office of Academic Assessment

      • Overview of and brief guidelines for academic outcomes assessment at NOVA (pdf & Powerpoint files)
      • Degree & certificate programs’ learning outcomes and faculty/dean assessment coordinators (pdf files).
      • Program evaluation (program review) overview, guidelines & program reports (pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • Assessment and program evaluation reports (pdf files).
      • Institutional effectiveness plan & highlights (pdf files).
      • Information for students about some core competency (general education) assessments used at NOVA (html pages, pdf files).
      • Resources include:
        • Information about WEAVEonline (pdf file; access to WEAVE is restricted to NOVA faculty & staff).
        • Template & guidelines for program-level annual reports (mostly pdf files; these focus on IR data).
        • Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf & Powerpoint files).
        • Links to other resources.
      • CCSSE results from the Office of Institutional Research (OIR; the survey results are pdf files).

Northwest Missouri State University

Northwest Missouri State University: Assessment Office

      • Information for students, including campus policy and a table of the local and national tests and surveys used.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University

Northwestern Oklahoma State University: Office of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

      • Assessment calendar.
      • Information about and from NWOSU’s assessment day (pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • Academic assessment:
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes (html pages, pdf files).
        • Guide & resources for developing assessment plans (pdf files).
        • Materials from on-campus retreats & forums (pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • General education assessment: General education competencies and a task force report on general education curriculum & assessment (pdf files).
      • Annual reports include assessment results & impacts (pdf files).
      • Student engagement: NSSE results (pdf file).
        • Still to come: Student satisfaction results.
      • Resources include NWOSU’s strategic plan (pdf file) and information about the LiveText information management system.

Nova Southeastern University (Florida)

Nova Southeastern University

3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

http://www.nova.edu/cwis/saase/resources.html

 

Nova Southeastern University (Florida)

NSU Institutional Effectiveness

Mission of Institutional Effectiveness

The mission of Institutional Effectiveness is to provide accurate and timely information regarding Nova Southeastern University and to analyze and assess decision-making at the university on an on-going basis.

Function

We are part of the service arm of the university and report to the office of the President. The office provides a variety of research, planning, assessment, and related support services to the university community.

Organization

Institutional Effectiveness is comprised of the following four offices:

Nyack College (New York)

Nyack College: Office of Institutional Assessment (New York)

      • Assessment model and information about the LOM (learning outcomes management) system.
      • Core (general education) learning outcomes and (pdf file) associated rubrics, and a sample curriculum mapping chart.
      • Program assessment rubric template and relationship to program learning goals.
        • The assessment model page includes a link to an Excel file of the template.
      • The glossary is an assessment manual that includes guidelines & examples (pdf file).
      • Downloadable resources also include guidelines & examples (pdf files).
      • Previous assessment information includes:
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes & curriculum maps (Excel file).
        • Reporting guide (pdf file) and template example (Excel file).
        • Summary reports (zipped archives of pdf files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Oakland Community College (Michigan)

Oakland Community College Student Learning Assessment

Mission Statement

At OCC the central focus of the assessment process at all levels is the improvement of student learning. OCC faculty takes the lead in implementing assessment activities, as well as in planning and overseeing those activities. However, the Office of Student Learning Assessment provides support and guidance to the faculty of OCC in all assessment-related matters. The mission of the college-wide Student Outcomes Assessment Committee (SOAC) is to implement student outcomes and assessment at all levels of the institution. SOAC is an advisory committee comprised of faculty and academic deans that help to lead and shape the process of student learning assessment at OCC. Finally, OCC uses an electronic database, the “Assessment Results Tracking Information System” (ARTIS), to organize and track all assessment-related activities at the college.

 

Oakland University (Michigan)

Oakland University: Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (Michigan)

      • Assessment of student learning
        • Program assessment
          • About program assessment
            • Overview of assessment and academic program review.
            • University assessment plan and roles (Word documents) and summary of assessment methods (Excel file).
            • Examples of assessment impacts (Word document).
            • Information about assessment mini-grants and annual assessment awards (Word documents).
            • University assessment committee (UAC) annual report (Word document).
          • Academic departments’ assessment plans and examples of assessment rubrics and reports (mostly Word documents, some pdf & Excel files).
          • University assessment committee (UAC) procedures, reporting templates & evaluation rubrics (Word documents, pdf & Excel files).
          • Materials from assessment award recipients (Word documents, pdf files).
          • Faculty resources: guidelines, sample rubrics, evaluation criteria, reporting formats and reporting template (Word documents, pdf files).
          • General resources: Assessment bibliographies (html page, Word document) and links to other assessment resources.
        • General education assessment
          • Overview.
          • General education outcomes.
          • Reporting forms for assessment plans & reports (Word documents).
          • See general resources, above.
          • Still to come: Assessment plans & reports.
        • Material from on-campus assessment-related events (pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • Institutional research
        • NSSE results (pdf & Excel files).
        • OU’s College Portrait.

Occidental College (California)

Occidental College: Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning (California)

      • College-wide (general education) learning outcomes.
      • Academic departments
        • Assessment handbook (pdf file).
        • Program review calendar (pdf file).
        • The reporting template and other documents & reports are restricted to OC faculty & staff.
      • Assessment information for academic support and student affairs units is restricted to OC faculty & staff.
      • Resources include reporting forms (Word documents) and links to other assessment resources.
      • The institutional research site has some summary survey data. Detailed survey reports are restricted to OC faculty & staff.

Ohio State University

Ohio State University

      • College of Arts & Sciences: Curriculum & Assessment Services
        • General education (GE) assessment
          • Learning outcomes.
          • Historical documents include an assessment plan and some reports (pdf files).
          • Reports & requirements and the Sharepoint site are restricted to OSU faculty & staff.
        • Reports & requirements for assessment in academic majors is restricted to OSU faculty & staff.
        • Information about Arts & Sciences’ exit survey (pdf files). Results are restricted to OSU faculty & staff.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      •  Office of Assessment
        • Outcomes and curricular philosophy for PharmD program (pdf files).
        • Assessment-related presentations and resources (pdf & Powerpoint files, Word documents).
        • Still to come: Assessment reports.

Ohio University

Ohio University: Office of Institutional Research

      • Overview of assessment activities at OU.
      • The more examples link at the bottom of the page leads to:
        • OU’s institutional assessment plan.
        • Learning objectives for general education and academic disciplines, and links (mostly pdf files) to survey reports and (older) academic-department assessment reports (Word documents).
        • Student involvement and engagement reports including NSSE results (pdf files).
        • General education learning outcomes and (pdf files) assessment reports.
        • Other, mostly older, assessment reports (pdf files, Word documents, html pages; some are restricted to OU faculty & staff).

Okanagan College (British Columbia)

Okanagan College: Office of Institutional Research (British Columbia)

      • Documents are pdf files.
      • Results from annual surveys of graduates.
        • College-wide highlights and results from graduates with apprenticeships.
        • Individual academic programs’ reports.
        • The accountability plans and reports on the Our Institution page include summaries of graduates’ satisfaction data.
      • CCSSE results.

Oklahoma City Community College

Oklahoma City Community College: Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee

      • Academic outcomes assessment (pdf files)
        • The faculty assessment handbook includes:
          • Philosophy & history of assessment at OCCC.
          • FAQ.
          • Reporting forms for assessment plans and results.
          • An assessment glossary.
        • Forms for assessment plans & reports.
        • Committee mission statement and minutes.
      • General education assessment (pdf files)
        • Outcomes and associated rubrics.
        • Assessment plan and annual reports.
        • Committee minutes.
        • Other general education resources & documents, not necessarily related to assessment.
      • The curriculum and assessment pages include information about & from periodic program reviews (pdf files).

Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University: Office of University Assessment and Testing

      • Program outcomes assessment plans and annual reports
        • Guidelines and examples for developing assessment plans and reports (Word documents, html page, pdf files).
        • Examples of assessment impacts.
        • Guide to UAT review & feedback about assessment plans & reports (pdf file).
        • Academic programs’ latest assessment plans and annual reports were not available when last checked.
        • Information about assessment-related budget requests (html pages, Word documents, pdf files).
      • General education outcomes, (pdf files) rubrics and reports, and (pdf files and Google docs documents) training materials for & reports from assessment reviewers.
      • The FAQ includes information about assessment funding (mini-grants).
      • Reports from student and alumni surveys, including NSSE results (html pages, pdf files).

Old Dominion University (Virginia)

Old Dominion University: Office of Assessment (Virginia)

      • About assessment at ODU.
      • Information for ODU students about student assessments, including descriptions of university-wide assessments and instructions for participation.
      • University assessment includes
        • Mission and history of the assessment program.
        • Fast facts from surveys of ODU students.
        • Cycle of campus-wide assessment activities.
        • FAQ.
        • Information about WEAVE, and (pdf files) rubrics for reviewing assessment plans.
      • Assessment results & reports are restricted to ODU faculty & staff.
      • Information about ODU’s approach to assessing the SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia) general education competencies.
      • Toolbox with hints, guidelines, and suggestions for various assessment methods. Some of these include links to pdf files, Word documents, and online resources.
        • The Encyclopedia of assessment methodology is a general presentation about assessment (pdf file).

Onondaga Community College (New York)

Onondaga Community College

The Department of IPAR facilitates and enhances college-wide strategic and operational planning, assessment, evaluation and research activities to ensure compliance with accreditation standards and support high-quality institutional decision-making, effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

  • Planning
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Accreditation
  • Research
  • Data Collection and Reporting
  • Grants Development and Management

 

 

Oregon State University

Oregon State University

      • Office of Academic Programs, Assessment, and Accreditation
        • Baccalaureate core (general education) assessment
          • About the core and the assessment process (including the core learning outcomes).
          • Step-by-step assessment guidelines & calendar.
          • Support tools include examples and templates (Word documents, Excel files).
          • Links include OSU websites and (pdf & Powerpoint files) reports.
        • Undergraduate program assessment
          • Assessment tips & guidelines.
          • Individual programs’ learning outcomes.
          • Individual programs’ use of performance assessment and high impact practice methods.
          • Report template (Excel file).
          • Information about classroom assessment, periodic program review, and the LEAP outcomes (pdf files).
          • The learning outcome tracking system is restricted to OSU faculty & staff.
        • Graduate and first professional program assessment
          • Overviews.
          • Graduate programs’ assessment plans (pdf files).
        • Information about assessment mini-grants.
        • Bibliography (the download format links are for bibliographic references, not for the books & articles themselves).
        • Information about & from the assessment council (agendas & minutes are pdf files).
        • Links to other Oregon state system institutions’ assessment sites.
      • Office of Student Affairs Research, Evaluation, and Planning
        • History of assessment in OSU Student Affairs.
        • Annual report (pdf file).
          • Some survey reports are available online (pdf files), others are only available on campus.
        • Department assessment
          • Report summaries and annual reports (pdf files; individual department reports are restricted to OSU faculty & staff).
          • Reporting formats, examples, and review rubrics (Word documents).
          • Review schedule & assignments (pdf files).
        • Planning: Assessment handbook and resources (pdf files).
        • Newsletter (pdf files).
        • Training: Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf files, Prezi & Youtube presentations).
        • Information about & from the assessment council (minutes are pdf files).

Owens Community College (Ohio)

Owens Community College: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Ohio)

      • Assessment & program review (PREP)
        • Guidelines, tips, & examples for developing & implementing assessment processes (pdf & Powerpoint files).
        • CAAP results (pdf files).
      • Research & reports include some survey results (pdf files).

Pace University (New York)

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).

Palm Beach State College (Florida)

Palm Beach State College: Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness (Florida)

      • General education learning outcomes, results, & assessment committee minutes. Results & minutes are pdf files; results reports include assessment methods.
      • Learning outcomes for academic programs and educational support services.
      • Learning outcomes & assessment methods for individual courses. Search by course number (course numbers & names can be found here); course outlines include outcomes & assessment methods.
      • Assessment resources: Tools for documenting & reporting program-level assessment plans & results, including:
        • Reporting templates (Word documents).
        • Access to assessment management tools is restricted to PBSC faculty & staff.
        • Institutional research data (pdf files).
        • Other resources include (pdf files):
          • Program review guidelines.
          • Outcomes assessment workbooks (manuals) for academic & student services programs.

Palo Alto College (Texas)

Palo Alto College (Texas)

      • About assessment at PAC.
      • FAQ, glossary, and calendar.
      • General education assessment (mostly pdf files)
        • Overview.
        • The summary reports overview assessment methods & results.
        • Rubrics for class assignments related to PAC’s general education competencies (outcomes).
        • Assessment guidelines, tips, and Cliff Notes (also see the additional supporting files).
        • CLA & CCLA reports.
      • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes & assessment reports, and an assessment report template & guidelines (pdf files).
      • Resources include:
        • Materials from on-campus workshops (pdf files).
        • Annotated links to other assessment resources.

Pamlico Community College (North Carolina)

Pamlico Community College: Office of Planning, Research, & Effectiveness (North Carolina)

      • Assessment resources for faculty (pdf files).
        • Tips, guidelines, & examples for developing & implementing assessment processes.
        • Materials from an on-campus workshop.
      • Assessment resources for staff (pdf files).
        • Assessment planning & reporting form, with instructions.
        • Materials from an on-campus workshop.
      • Survey calendar (pdf file).
      • Links to other assessment resources (this page).

Paradise Valley Community College (Arizona)

Paradise Valley Community College (Arizona)

      • Overview of assessment and course assessment at PVCC.
      • Assessment progress and results annual presentations and newsletter (Powerpoint & pdf files, Word document).
      • General education outcomes and associated rubrics, sample assessments, & results (html pages, pdf, Excel, & video files, Word documents).
      • Out of class (student life & student services) assessment plan & reports (pdf, Powerpoint, & Excel files, Word documents).
      • Information about & from the assessment committees (minutes are Word documents).
      • Information about periodic program review (Word documents).
      • Resources:
        • Assessment handbook. Each chapter is a pdf file.
        • Tips & guidelines.
        • Archived reports (pdf files, Word documents, html pages).
      • Access to the online assessment tool is restricted to PVCC faculty & staff.

Park University (Missouri)

Park University – Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

GENERAL ASSESSMENT EDUCATION RESOURCES

Park University is committed to providing “access to academic excellence.”  Assessment–at the university, degree program, and classroom levels–helps us know more about and improve student learning.  This website serves as a central repository for information about assessment at Park University and resources supporting best practices in assessment.

Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning.  It involves:

  • Making our expectations explicit
  • Setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning
  • Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards
  • Using the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance.

CETL Quick Tips

Effective Assessment

Assessment Resources

Formative Assessment

Classroom Techniques

Online Assessment

 

Passaic County Community College

Passaic County Community College (New Jersey)

  • Libguides at PCCC – These pages provide resources for subjects, courses and research assistance at PCCC.

Paul D. Camp Community College (Virginia)

Paul D. Camp Community College: Office of Assessment and Research (Virginia)

      • Assessment toolkit (pdf files).
        • Assessment plan (handbook).
        • FAQ.
        • Guidelines & tips for assessment & implementation.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Results from assessment of general education core competencies (pdf files).
      • Institutional effectiveness includes (pdf files):
        • College factbook.
        • Curriculum maps with program-specific learning outcomes.
        • Program assessments & review reports include learning outcomes, assessment methods, results, & impacts.
        • A strategic planning benchmark report.
      • Results from surveys of students, alumni, & faculty, including CCSSE reports (pdf files).
      • Access to online surveys (please do not enter anything in these online forms).

Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

      • Expectations for academic program assessment.
      • FAQ.
      • Overview of academic program assessment.
        • Guidelines & links to resources for program assessment procedures, from Penn State’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence.
          • Other pages on this site also include links to Schreyer Institute resources.
          • The Schreyer Institute site includes information about grants for assessment and other teaching support projects.
      • Assessment tutorial (self-paced module); some pages include links to examples & additional resources (various formats).
      • Assessment reporting template (Word document) and guides (rubrics) for evaluating assessment plans & reports (pdf file).
      • Examples of PSU programs’ assessment plans (pdf files).
      • Material from on-campus assessment events (pdf & Powerpoint files).
      • NSSE results (pdf files).

Pepperdine University (California)

Pepperdine University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (California)

      • Assessment
        • Institutional learning outcomes.
        • Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes.
        • General education learning outcomes and (pdf files) assessment reports.
        • Information about assessment mini-grants (the application is a Word document).
          • Use this link for the ASLC (Advancement of Student Learning Council) page.
      • Educational research: NSSE and CSS (College Senior Survey) reports on the national surveys page are restricted to Pepperdine faculty & staff.
      • See OIE for information about on-campus workshops.
      • Information about periodic program review (archived reports are restricted to Pepperdine faculty & staff).

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas

      • Annual assessment results and summary reports from some academic divisions (mostly Word documents, some pdf & Excel files).
        • Scroll down the main page for an assessment reporting template (Word document).
      • The annual strategies & planning summaries address both strategic planning & outcomes assessment (Word documents).
      • Student learning process: PCCUA’s assessment plan and reports (older reports are Word documents; recent ones are pdf files) .
      • PCCUA’s goals for assessment results and impacts (Word documents), and college-level changes that have been related to the assessment process.
      • Core competencies (general education) outcomes, assessment approach, and rubrics (Word documents), and CAAP results (Word documents and Excel files).
      • Program assessment: Plans, results, and impacts for some academic programs (Word documents). These are also summarized in the college-level assessment reports.
      • Results from surveys of students, alumni, and faculty (Word documents, Excel files, and Powerpoint presentations).
        • Scroll down the main page for links to more recent CCSSE and graduate survey results (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Guidelines for classroom assessment techniques (CATS) and guidelines and resources for other assessment & teaching techniques.
      • Information from and about the college assessment committee (Word documents).
      • Assessment newsletters (pdf files).
      • Miscellaneous (institutional research) data related to assessment and outcomes (Word documents).
      • Training and Other Sources include information about and resources from on-campus workshops.
      • Other sources include materials from on-campus workshops (Word & rtf documents) and a list of available books.

Pikes Peak Community College (Colorado)

Pikes Peak Community College: College Outcomes Assessment Team (Colorado)

      • General education outcomes.
      • PPCC’s assessment plan and timeline, and results from a critical thinking assessment project (pdf files).
      • A summary of PPCC’s assessment activities, with results from some general education and department assessments (pdf file).
      • Evidence and use of evidence: Highlights of general education assessment methods & results (pdf files) and an overview of some assessment impacts.
      • Resources
        • The COAT handbook (pdf file) includes overviews of committee activities and the PPCC assessment process, and information about funding (mini-grants) for departments’ assessment activities.
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Plymouth State University (New Hampshire)

Plymouth State University (New Hampshire)

      • Individual academic departments’ sites include their learning outcomes; some also have (pdf files) assessment reports.

Portland Community College (Oregon)

Portland Community College: Learning Assessment Council (Oregon)

      • Reporting deadlines, guidelines & templates (Word documents, pdf files).
      • SAC (subject area committee) award-winning assessment reports (pdf files).
      • About LAC (mostly pdf files).
      • Core (general education) outcomes and associated rubrics and potential assessment methods.
      • Individual academic programs’ reports & plans for assessing the core outcomes (pdf files).
      • General resources include:
        • Information about assessment mini-grants and on-campus workshops (classes) about assessment.
        • PCC library resources and links to other assessment resources.

Portland State University (Oregon)

Portland State University: Institutional Assessment Council (Oregon)

      • Council business
        • About the IAC.
        • History of assessment at PSU.
        • What’s new?: Recent activities & events (pdf files).
        • Meeting minutes, IAC charges, and annual reports are pdf files.
      • Campus-wide learning outcomes
        • CWLOs: General education outcomes (the criteria are a pdf file) and outcomes tiers (course, program, campus-wide).
        • FAQ.
        • The process by which the outcomes were developed.
        • Assessment coverage.
        • Status reports (assessment results) and (pdf files) assessment examples.
        • Department roles in assessing campus-wide outcomes: Coverage, FAQ.
      • Student pathway
        • Examples of individual academic departments’ approaches to the campus-wide outcomes (pdf files).
        • Showcase posters (Powerpoint file).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Prince George’s Community College (Maryland)

Prince George’s Community College: Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research (Maryland)

      • Overview of assessment at PGCC.
      • Handbook (pdf file).
      • Still to come: Assessment findings summary report.
      • Best practices webinars from TK20.
      • Tips, guidelines & planning checklists (pdf files).
      • Assessment-related presentations & publications from PGCC (pdf files).

Purdue University (Indiana)

Purdue University – Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Effectiveness(Indiana)

The Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Effectiveness provides reporting and analysis that allows the University to most efficiently use its resources. Our efforts help Purdue build the most effective environment to allow our students to be successful.
Contact us at oirae@purdue.edu

Ramapo College of New Jersey

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; both are 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).

Reedley College (California)

Reedley College (California)

      • SLO Blackboard page from the State Center Community College District (SCCCD): See RC Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment.
        • RC assessment progress updates, status report (Word document), and course-assessment inventory (Excel file).
      • FAQ, including a link to the Assessment page (see below) and an FAQ (Word document) for adjunct faculty.
      • Glossary.
      • Outcomes
        • General education learning outcomes and (Word documents) assessment reports.
        • Learning outcomes from individual degree programs, and assessment report with program summaries (Word documents).
      • Assessment
        • Assessment reporting forms (Word documents) and timeline (Excel file).
        • The program review handbook includes an assessment timeline and reporting forms (Word document).
        • When last checked, the program and course assessment completion inventories on this page (Excel files) opened properly from Internet Explorer but not from other browsers such as Firefox.

Rhode Island College

Rhode Island College

      • Introduction to assessment for new faculty (pdf file, from NILOA).
      • General education outcomes, assessment plan, and (pdf files) pilot project results.
      • Overview of academic program assessment, with (Word documents) reporting form, report-evaluation rubric, and curriculum-mapping template (also available under forms and templates).
      • Overview of assessment in co-curricular programs, and (pdf file) student affairs assessment plan.
      • List of assessments: Information about assessment instruments & processes at RIC.
      • Assessment schedules.
      • CLA and NSSE results (pdf files).
      • Information about the assessment committee.
      • Assessment newsletters (pdf files).
      • Outcomes assessment reading lists (recommended readings, pdf files).
      • Supporting organizations: Links to assessment resources.

Rice University (Texas)

Rice University: Office of Institutional Effectiveness (Texas)

      • Guidelines for developing course- & program-level outcomes, curriculum maps, and an assessment plan.
      • Glossary.
      • Reporting cycle, guidelines, & templates for academic and administrative & support units (templates in pdf and Word form).
      • Guidelines & (video files) tutorials for the Qualtrics survey system. (Qualtrics access is restricted to Rice faculty & staff.)
      • Links to other resources.

Rochester Institute of Technology (New York)

Rochester Institute of Technology: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Office (New York)

      • Institutional assessment
        • Overview.
        • Essential (general education) outcomes (also in the academic program profile [pdf file]).
        • Assessment planning map (matrix) and guide for administrative units (pdf files).
        • University assessment measures: Sources of institution-level data.
        • Glossary.
        • Information about RIT’s assessment council and participation in a project to assist Board oversight of student learning & academic quality.
      • Academic program assessment
        • Overview.
        • FAQ.
        • Assessment plan guide, reporting form, checklist, & evaluation rubric (pdf files; the examples are restricted to RIT faculty & staff).
        • Resources and course level assessment: Guidelines & tips, including rubric examples.
        • Timeline for progress reports. (The examples and annual reports are restricted to RIT faculty & staff.)
        • Information about the assessment committee.
      • General education assessment
        • Overview.
        • General education outcomes and associated rubrics (the rubrics themselves are restricted to RIT faculty & staff).
        • Framework and outcomes*framework alignment map (pdf files).
        • Assessment plan model & schedule (pdf files; the plan itself is restricted to RIT faculty & staff).
        • Plan (pdf file) for and presentation (Powerpoint file) about communicating general education assessment results (the reports are restricted to RIT faculty & staff).
        • Information about the general education committee.
      • Administrative & academic support unit assessment
        • Assessment planning map & guide (pdf files).
        • Status of individual units’ assessment maps.
      • Assessment management system
        • Overview & training/support information for RIT’s implementation of the Taskstream assessment management system.
        • Academic & administrative unit access to the system is restricted to RIT faculty & staff.
      • Assessment Office services & support.
      • RIT assessment news & announcements, and a list of upcoming assessment conferences.
      • Tips for assessment in an online environment.
      • Information about assessment grants (the application form is a Word document).
      • Assessment in Student Affairs.
        • Strategic planning goals and scorecard (pdf files).
        • Reporting form for department (strategic) plans (pdf file).
        • Assessing programs, services, & student development: Department plan matrix (Excel file) & co-curricular map (Word document).
        • Access to the Taskstream assessment management system is restricted to RIT faculty & staff.

Rock Valley College (Illinois)

Assessment of Student Learning

Our faculty and administrators are very serious when it comes to the quality of education students receive and for that reason they understand the need for assessing what and how students are learning in the classroom and around campus.

Taskstream Accountability Management System

Taskstream has replaced TracDat as the college’s accountability management system and will be used to track progress toward course, program, and institutional assessment beginning in fall 2015. Look for Taskstream training opportunities during development days and throughout the 2015-2016 academic year.  The following areas have active links on the Assessment of Student Learning page:

  • Assessment Overview
  • Classroom Assessment
  • Course Assessment
  • Program/Discipline Assessment
  • Institutional (SLO) Assessment
  • Templates and Forms
  • Reports
  • Presentations and Publications
  • Resources

Program Review

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)
The college will be participating in the Spring 2016 administration of CCSSE. Results from 2014 are available by contacting RVC-Research@RockValleyCollege.edu.

Recent Publications

Contact US

Rockland Community College (New York)

Rockland Community College: Office of Outcomes Assessment (New York)

      • Overview of assessment at RCC.
      • Five-year plan for assessment at RCC.
      • Assessment procedures (pdf files)
        • Five-year plan details and SUNY-system general education outcomes.
        • Reporting forms.
        • Examples.
      • Procedures & reporting template for the annual department assessment pilot project (pdf files).
      • Resources include
        • A framework for assessment (the AAHE assessment principles).
        • Glossary.
        • Links to other assessment resources.

Rutgers University (New Jersey)

Rutgers University (New Jersey)

      • Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research
        • Assessment terms, plans, & conduct: Guidelines for designing departmental assessment plans. (Includes pdf link to a sample rubric.)
        • Notable ideas & practices (mostly pdf files):
          • Links to some assessment resources.
          • Examples of departmental learning goals.
        • Procedure for annual assessment reports (the checklist was not available when last reviewed).
        • Committees and university infrastructure for outcomes assessment.
        • Glossary.
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning
        • Information about surveys of students and faculty (some are pdf files). Assessment reports include results from a survey of graduating seniors.
        • The Undergraduate Experience summarizes results from surveys of continuing and graduating students and of students who withdrew from the university (pdf files).
      • Assessment at Rutgers-Camden
        • Camden College of Arts & Sciences (CCAS) assessment plan.
        • Individual academic departments’ plans (pdf files).
        • Reporting forms (pdf files).
        • Best practice examples from CCAS programs’ annual reports (pdf file).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • The Physics and Astronomy Education Research group’s Scientific Abilities Project site includes assessment tasks, rubrics for assessing scientific abilities, and presentations on assessment of scientific abilities (pdf files).

Saginaw Valley State University (Michigan)

Saginaw Valley State University (Michigan)

      • Academic program assessment at SVSU: Principles and (pdf file) periodic program review cycle.
      • Assessment materials
        • Assessment/planning report forms & examples (pdf & rtf files).
        • HLC self-study & final report (pdf files).
        • Reports & materials from on-site workshops are restricted to SVSU faculty & staff.
      • Administrative structure, roles, & responsibilities for the assessment process (pdf file).

Saint Mary’s College of California

Saint Mary’s College of California: Office of Institutional Research

      • Overview of assessment at Saint Mary’s:
      • Program assessment tips, guidelines, & reporting formats (pdf files).
      • Information about & from Saint Mary’s assessment grant projects (pdf files).
      • The core curriculum section includes (general education) learning outcomes and (pdf file) an assessment plan.
      • Information about & from the on-campus assessment forum (pdf files; the video of the 2013 forum is restricted to Saint Mary’s faculty & staff).
      • The institutional research site has results from surveys of students & alumni, including NSSE reports (pdf & Excel files).
      • Links to other assessment resources.

Saint Michael’s College (Vermont)

Saint Michael’s College: Office of Institutional Research (Vermont)

      • Vice President’s message about assessment.
      • Results from surveys of the senior class and alumni (pdf files).
      • College-wide assessment efforts includes NSSE results on spirituality & ethics and results from a survey about SMC’s mission (pdf files).
      • Assessment of students in residence includes NSSE results and results from academic advising surveys (pdf files).
      • Information about entering students and retention (pdf files).

Salem State University (Massachusetts)

Salem State University (Massachusetts)

      • LEAP-based goals & learning objectives: SSU’s university-wide (general education) learning outcomes (pdf file).
      • The glossary includes links to other assessment resources.
      • Individual academic departments’ learning outcomes, assessment instruments & reports, & curriculum maps, and assessment instruments (mostly pdf files). What’s there varies from department to department.
      • About SSU’s participation in the Wabash national study of liberal arts education.
      • Information from & about SSU’s assessment committee (minutes are pdf files) and faculty fellows program.
      • Materials from on-campus workshops (mostly pdf files; the agenda is a Word document).

Salt Lake Community College (Utah)

Salt Lake Community College (Utah)

      • Overview (pdf files).
        • Assessment plan & timeline.
        • College-wide (general education) outcomes and guidelines for association with program- and course-level outcomes.
      • Help includes:
        • Tips & guidelines for developing & implementing outcomes assessment processes (pdf files).
        • Forms & templates for (Word documents) assessment plans, curriculum maps, and (pdf files,Word documents) rubrics & assessment guidelines for some general education outcomes.
        • Bibliographies and workshop presentations (pdf files).
        • Links to other assessment resources.
      • Documentation: Individual academic programs’ learning outcomes, curriculum maps, and assessment plans (pdf files; Results are restricted to SLCC faculty & staff).
      • Video examples & overviews from SLCC faculty.
      • Tips & guidelines for critical-thinking assessment assignments (pdf files, Word documents).
      • Assessment reports from student services units (pdf files).

Sam Houston State University (Texas)

Sam Houston State University: Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (Texas)

      • FAQ (pdf file).
      • Assessment of SHSU’s core curriculum
        • Learning objectives and (pdf file) assessment plan.
        • Writing in the disciplines assessment pilot and (pdf