Assessment Articles & Websites

Assessment (General)

• Assessment Resources (AAC&U)
• Assessment Commons: Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

Assessment Best Practices

• 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning 
• Assessing to Improve: Focusing on Students and their Learning
• Assuring  Quality: An Institutional Self-Assessment Tool for Excellent Practice in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment 
• Committing to Quality/Assuring Quality (Council for Higher Education Accreditation)

Assessment and the Higher Learning Commission

• Assessment as a Guiding Value
• Criteria for Accreditation

Assessment Instruments

• National Tests and Surveys 
• Focus Group Guidelines
  
  • Student Focus Groups for Program Assessment 
  • Using Focus Groups to Get Student Feedback 
  • Using Focus Groups in Program Development and Evaluation 
  • Helpful Hints for Conducting a Focus Group 
  • Conducting Focus Groups (includes links to several other documents) 
• Guidelines for Selecting Instruments

Assessment in the Co-Curriculum

• Making Assessment Meaningful: What New Student Affairs Professionals and Those New to Assessment Need to Know 
• The Role of Student Affairs in Student Learning Assessment 
• Student Learning Outcomes Alignment through Academic and Student Affairs Partnerships

Assessment Journals

• Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 
• Assessment Update
• Research and Practice in Assessment 

Assessment in Online Courses

• Assessing Learning in Online Education Articles 
• Quality Matters 

Assessment Organizations

• Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE)
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)
• Association for Institutional Research (AIR) (List includes discipline-specific research) 
• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 

Assessment Rubrics

• AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
• Assorted Rubrics 
• What is Satisfactory Performance? Measuring Students and Measuring Programs with Rubrics

Past Presentations & Training Resources 

• Motivating Faculty to Engage in Assessment - Dr. Joe Harder
• Tip Sheet - Using Assessment to Improve Teaching & Learning
• Writing an Exemplary Student Learning Summary Report Spring 2017 - Dr. Mary Herrington-Perry
• Writing an Exemplary Student Learning Summary Report Fall 2016 - Dr. Mary Herrington-Perry