Assessment Resources
Assessment Office

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General Resources

• Association for Assessment and Learning in Higher Education
• Institutional Assessment Cabinet Retreat Slides

Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

• Assessing Student Learning and Institutional Effectiveness: Understanding Middle States Expectations
  This brochure clarifies Middle States expectations regarding Standard 7: Institutional Assessment and Standard 14: Assessment of Student Learning in Characteristics of Excellence. It supersedes Chapter 4 in Student Learning Assessment: Options and Resources. (2005, 8 pgs).
• Student Learning Assessment: Options and Resources (2nd Edition, 2007)
  The handbook, Student Learning Assessment: Options & Resources (2007) has a new Chapter 4, incorporating Assessing Student Learning and Institutional Effectiveness: Understanding Middle States Expectations, which is also available as a separate publication for download free from this website.]
• Suskie, Linda. 2004. Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA: Examples of Evidence of Student Learning
• A Brief History of Student Learning Assessment: How We Got Where We Are and a Proposal for Where to Go Next (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
• Engaging Departments: Assessing Student Learning (PeerReview)
• Classroom Assessment Practices and Teachers’ Self-Perceived Assessment Skills (Applied Measurement in Education)
• Assessment Practices Inventory: A Multivariate Analysis of Teachers’ Perceived Assessment Competency
• College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment (National Science Teachers Association)
• Frameworks for Assessing Learning and Development Outcomes (Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education)
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment- Down and In: Assessment Practices at the Program Level (June 2011)
• Making Assessment Meaningful: What New Student Affairs Professionals and Those New to Assessment Need to Know (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment)

Materials for External Reviews/Resources for External Reports

• Assessment of Institutional Effectiveness and Student Learning at ESF: Report to Middle States Commission on Higher Education, March 2009