Assessing student learning

      National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment :  National Survey Report

• Advancing Student Learning — Middles States Commission on Higher Education manual on assessing student learning (PDF)
• Schematic outline of assessment structures for higher education (Lion Gardiner)
  • Managing Learning in Higher Education
  • Improving Organization Performance in Higher Education
• Knowing What Students Know:  The Science and Design of Educational Assessment — Free online version of the book, published by the National Academies Press in 2001
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind Experience and School — Free online version of the book, published by the National Academies Press in 2000
• Assessment for Improvement vs Assessment for Accountability - Presentation, Trudy Banta

Links to Other Institutions

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Assessing Student Learning Outcomes — Presentation for University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, deans council on assessment (Powerpoint)
  • Learning Outcomes Assesment Manual (PDF)
• University of Delaware Assessment Manual — This is a rich source of information, with many subsidiary links
• Kansas State University — Information about writing student learning goals and objectives.  It has a comprehensive list of links to further information about assessment practices
• University of Washington — Learning goals of various courses at UW, examples of departmental learning goals, and links to other college and university assessment materials
• University of Missouri
  • Departmental Assessment  
  • General Education Assessment
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst — Handbook for program based learning outcome assessment (PDF)
• University of Colorado, Boulder — Comprehensive site containing planning tools, assessment guide book, and latest assessment reports from various academic departments
• Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership — Many resources for teaching, course design, and assessment.
• Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, Indiana University Kokomo--9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning.
• Additional Links and Resources

Resources for Developing and Using Rubrics

  

      AAC&U Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Project Overiew The Association of American   

      Colleges and Universitys has embarked on a major effort to design and develop rubrics for assessing general undergraduate  

      education, relying heavily on the use of electronic portfolios of student work for source material.  A sample rubric appears in

      the Overview.

• Authentic Assessment Toolbox — When we set up assessment goals and objectives, we ask ‘What do we want our students to know, value and do?”  Authentic Assessment refers to the application of knowledge, what we want our students to do, especially in real-world situations.  The Toolbox helps in developing rubrics for such ‘authentic’ assessments.
•  Problem based learning rubric — The above link is from the University of Delaware. It gives an example of a rubric used to assess performance in a problem-based learning. Another form of ‘authentic’ assessment.

The use of E-Portfolios

   

     AAC&U Peer Review; The Benefits of E-Portfolios for Students and Faculty in Their Own Words.

    AAC&U Peer Review; E-Portfolios at 2.0--Surveying the Field.

Assessing Programs

Igert Assessment Presentation - Overview of Assessment and IGERT Program Assessments