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The purpose of assessment is to improve, inform, and support your program and/or institution.

Assessment of student learning is an essential component of General Education, program goals, and university effectiveness, and it is fundamental to fulfilling the mission of the university. Assessment also plays a key role in accreditation of programs and Middle States accreditation for the university as a whole. This page provides a few general resources for assessing student learning at all levels and in a variety of ways.

General Assessment Resources and Groups

• – Originally published by the American Association for Higher Education
• – Information on curriculum mapping, rubrics, an assessment glossary, and lots of other useful tools and information.
• – A wealth of information on assessing teaching, programs, departments, and learning from Carnegie Mellon University
• (AAC&U) – Extensive resources on general education, curriculum, faculty work, and more.
• – Plans, policies, structures, tools, and reporting devices all in one place in their Resource Room.
• – Courtesy of Vanderbilt University
• – A great resource on rubrics, journals, assessments of writing, and more.
• – A huge selection of archives, articles, discussion groups, and information on assessing specific skills/content and accrediting bodies. Maintained by North Carolina State University
• (NILOA) – Reports, occasional papers, and great examples of good assessment practice.
• – Information on assessing outside the classroom, using rubrics, and other online resources.

Assessment Tools/Measures

• - By the Institute of Education Sciences
• – By the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
• - from UMASS Amherst

Program-Level Assessment

• Program and Department Assessment Guidebook – Developed by the UAC’s Program-Level Workgroup
• – By the NILOA
• – Susan Hatfield, Winona State University
• – Guide to program-level assessment
• L – By the AAC&U
• – Getting started with program-level assessment
• – From Cornell University’s Center for Teaching Innovation

Course-Level Assessment

• – Presented by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching
• Course-Level Assessment for SLOs – California State University Long Beach
• – Course design, planning, evaluation, and more.
• – From CUNY Hunter