 Principles
- A set of principles for developing learning outcomes by the California Academic Press that includes nine student outcomes assessment suggestions, five step assessment process, formative questions, etc.
- Guidelines
- Guidelines for student learning outcomes by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Education. This site includes the following topics:
- Clarifying goals
- Defining measures
- Assessing outcomes
- Evaluating learning opportunities
- Using the results
It also provides general suggestions regarding reporting requirements and formats, expenditures, and a bibliography.
- A Manual
- A manual developed at and for the University of Wisconsin. The index is as follows:
- I. Introduction
- II. Background
- III. UW-Madison's Assessment Approach
- IV.UW-Madison Assessment Plan
- V. Developing a Departmental Assessment Plan
- VI. Assessment Instruments and Methods Available for Assessing Student Learning in the Major
- A. Direct Indicators of Learning
- 1. Capstone Course Evaluation
- 2. Course-Embedded Assessment
- 3. Tests and Examinations (Locally/Faculty Designed & Commercially Produced Standardized Tests)
- 4. Portfolio Evaluation
- 5. Pre-test/Post-test Evaluation
- 6. Thesis Evaluation
- 7.Videotape and Audiotape Evaluation of Performance
- B. Indirect Indicators of Learning
- 1. External Reviewers
- 2. Student Surveying and Exit Interviewing
- 3. Alumni Surveying
- 4. Employer Surveying
- 5. Curriculum and Syllabus Analysis
- VII. Direct and Indirect Assessment Tools Used in UW-Madison Schools & Colleges (as of May, 1998)
- VIII. UW-Madison Campus-Based Assessment Resources
- IX. Conclusion
- Appendix A: UW-Madison Assessment Council
- Appendix B: Developing an Assessment Plan in the Major
- Step-by-step Guide
- A step-by-step guide produced by the National Center on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at Penn State. Each of the following questions are explored:
- What is the educational purpose of the assessment plan?
- Who are the audiences to whom the plan is to communicate?
- What are your assessable education goals?
- What are the educational criteria and experiences for each goal?
- What are the indicators and/or measures of goal attainment?
- What are the standards and levels of performance for each indicator or measure?
- What assessments do you use to measure entering and completing students?
- How and when do you interpret and report assessment results to your audiences?
- What is your plan for revision of criteria, measures and methods
- What are your strategies for changes in the curriculum, faculty development, out-of-class learning experiences?
- University of Colorado Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment
- This University of Colorado site is a thorough description of their program for Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment. The site is divided into the following sections:
- Overview
- The history of CU-Boulder's outcomes assessment program
- Who does what, when
- Goals for undergraduates
- Assessment methods used by academic departments and programs
- Assessment methods across academic units
- What we've learned about doing outcomes assessment
- What we've learned about student learning and satisfaction
- What we've learned about students' activities after they graduate
- What we've learned about curricular changes resulting from assessment
- What's next
- Table: assessment methods used by individual academic units
- Individual academic unit summaries
Note especially that the site includes the student outcomes of many departments, along with how they are being assessed.
- Further Links
- A major site on assessment developed by North Carolina State University. This site presents information from specific disciplines and accrediting agencies. It also provides many links to other sites dealing with assessment issues.
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