• First-Year Assessment (FYA) Listserv
  • Invited Essay Series
    Experts in higher education assessment share their knowledge of various tools, techniques, and challenges related to assessment.
  • Listserv Archives
    Past discussions among subscribers to the FYA-List.
    
    
• Assessment Basics
  • Six Significant Questions
    An overview of assessment in the first college year by Joe Cuseo.

• Commercially Available Assessment Tools
  • Searchable database of first-year assessment instruments
  • Typology of assessment instruments
  • Measuring Quality - Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality (Association for Institutional Research)
  • Update product/pricing information for instruments

• Locally Developed Course Evaluation Tools
  • Recommendations for effective and valid course evaluations
    A list of suggestions and supporting comments from Joe Cuseo
  • Online Tools for development of course evaluation instruments
    • Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)
      Free online course evaluation tool.
    • Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG)
      Guide for assessment of college science, math, and engineering courses.
    • Flashlight Online
      Online course and program evaluation tool.
    • Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI)
      Reflective tool that will help professors clarify course objectives.

• Additional Resources
  • Results of First-Year Assessment
    • For outcomes associated with first year college students, visit our research section
  • Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment
  • NRC Publications about first-year assessment
    • Exploring the Evidence, Vol. IV: Reporting Research on First-Year Seminars (pdf document)
    • Exploring the Evidence, Vol. III: Reporting Research on First-Year Seminars (pdf document)
    • Exploring the Evidence: Reporting Research on Peer Education Programs
    • Guidelines for Evaluating The First-Year Experience at Four-Year Colleges (2nd Edition)
    • Proving and Improving Volume II: Tools and Techniques for Assessing the First College Year (Monograph Series No. 37)
  • Association for Institutional Research

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*Special thanks to the following people/organizations for allowing the National Resource Center to use their material on this webpage:

Randy Swing (Policy Center for the First Year of College)
Joe Cuseo (Marymount College, California)
Wendy Troxel (Illinois State University)
Linda Suskie (Towson University)
Gloria Rogers (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
Association for Institutional Research (Measuring Quality)