National Resource Center Resources

Guidelines for Evaluating The First-Year Experience at Four-Year Colleges (2nd Edition)

Guidelines for Evaluating The First-Year Experience at Two-Year Colleges (2nd Edition)

Proving and Improving Volume II: Tools and Techniques for Assessing the First College Year (Monograph Series No. 37)

External Resources

Assessment Update: Progress, Trends, and Practices in Higher Education (March-April 2004), Volume 16, Number 2 – Special issue on assessment of the first year

Bresciani, M. J. (2011, August). Making Assessment Meaningful: What New Student Affairs Professionals and Those New to Assessment Need to Know. (NILOA Assessment Brief: Student Affairs). Urbana, IL: University for Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.

Nunley, C., Bers, T., & Manning, T. (2011, July). Learning outcomes assessment in community colleges. (NILOA Occasional Paper No. 10). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.

Schuh, J. H, & Gansemer-Topf, A. M. (2010, December). The role of Student Affairs in Student Learning Assessment. Urbana, IL: University for Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.