THE BASICS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

ASSESSMENT LIBRARY

• Assessment Basics

• Drafting Goals and Learning Outcomes

• Curriculum Mapping

• Selecting Assessment Measures

• Collecting Assessment Results

• Using Assessment Results for Improvement

• Closing the Assessment Loop

Online Certificate Course:

"Assessing Academic Programs"
 

Featured Publications:

Student Writing: Using Assessment as a Tool to Standardize and Improve Upon Key Learning Outcomes

by Laura K. Smith & Nina Brook, University of South Carolina

Faculty Engagement with Integrative Assignment Design: Connecting Teaching and Assessment

by Kimberly Green and Pat Hutchings, Washington State University

Cultivating and Sustaining a Faculty Culture of Data-Driven Teaching and Learning: A Systems Approach

by Marsha Lovett and Chad Hershock, Carnegie Mellon University

Developing a Departmental Assessment Program 

by William Martin and Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University

The Effect of Informational Characteristics and Faculty Knowledge and Beliefs on the Use of Assessment

by Jessia Jonson & Nancy Mitchell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Robert Thompson, Duke University; and Thomas Guetterman, University of Michigan

Creating Student-Centered Learning Environments and Changing Teaching Culture: Purdue University’s IMPACT Program

by Chantal Levesque-Bristol et.al, Purdue University

Measuring Assessment Climate

by John F. Stevenson, Elaine Finan, and Michael Martel, University of Rhode Island

Engineering: 

Building the EC 2000 environment

by Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

How an Engineering College Uses a University’s Quality Enhancement System to Generate and Manage Evidence for Multiple Accreditation and Accountability Bodies

by Kim K. Bender & T. J. Siller, Colorado State University

General Education Assessment: 

Multiple-Campus Assessment of General Education: A Course-Embedded Approach. AIR 1996 Annual Forum Paper

by Karen Carey and C. Lynn Glander 

ePortfolios and Faculty Engagement: Measuring Change Through Structured Experiences 

by Gail Ring, Pebble Pad, and Barbara Ramirez and Bob Brackett, Clemson University