Core Commitments: Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility
Selected AAC&U Publications on Assessment
Assessing Campus Diversity Initiatives: A Guide for Campus Practitioners. Mildred Garcia, Cynthia Hudgins, Caryn McTighe Musil, Michael Nettles,William Sedlacek, Daryl Smith, 2003
This publication provides tips and tools for designing and developing effective diversity evaluations. Topics addressed include the need for assessment, designing an evaluation plan, institutional context, audience, data collection and analysis, performance indicators, and theoretical models. An appendix also includes sample assessment and evaluation tools from campuses across the country.
Assessment in Cycles of Improvement: Faculty Designs for Essential Learning Outcomes. Ross Miller, 2007
This publication features a series of reports on how selected colleges and universities foster and assess student learning in twelve liberal education outcome areas, including writing, quantitative literacy, critical thinking, ethics, intercultural knowledge, and information literacy. Moving from goals to experiences, assessments, and improvements driven by assessment data, each institutional story illustrates how complex learning can be shaped over time and across programs to bring students to higher levels of achievement of these important outcomes.
Assessing Global Learning: Matching Good Intentions with Good Practice. Caryn McTighe Musil, 2006
Assessing Global Learning is designed to help colleges and universities construct and assess the impact of multiple, well-defined, developmental pathways through which students can acquire global learning. Specific program examples demonstrate how and where curricular and co-curricular learning can be embedded at various levels from individual courses to institutional mission. The publication argues for establishing clear global learning goals that inform departments, divisions, and campus life and suggests assessment frameworks. This publication also ncludes a sample quantitative assessment survey and several assessment templates.
Assessing Student Learning. Peer Review. Spring 2007, No. 9, Vol. 2
As campuses implement more complex assignments, community placements, internships, student research programs, and other engaged learning practices, the opportunityy for students to demonstrate complex capacities will be increased. This issue addresses a variety of approaches to achieving and assessing the advanced learning outcomes derived from these practices. It also includes a special focus on developing and assessing capstone courses.
A Brief History of Student Learning Assessment: How We Got Where We Are and a Proposal for Where to Go Next. Richard J. Shavelson, with a forward by Carol Geary Schneider and Lee S. Shulman, 2007
A Brief History of Student Learning Assessment offers a historical overview of testing in higher education and a proposal for a more productive approach to student learning assessment in the future that builds on the current Collegiate Learning Assessment. It provides an important context for today's renewed calls for greater accountability and, more importantly, the urgent need to raise levels of student achievement. This publication helps us better understand the "state-of-the-art" in standardized testing today, and what the academy should ask - and what it can and cannot expect - from standardized testing in the future.
Levels of Assessment: From the Student to the Institution.(pdf) Ross Miller and Andrea Leskes, 2005
This paper describes five levels of complexity in assessment at the college level, from assessing individual student learning up to assessing the institution. It clarifies the all-too-common "assessment morass" and provides guidance on appropriate actions and uses of different assessment methods. The premise of the paper is that direct measures of student learning can be used for multiple levels of assessment and that the ways of sampling, aggregating, and grouping data depend on the original questions posed.
Student Preparation, Motivation, and Achievement. Peer Review. Winter 2007, No. 9, Vol. 1
The issue presents data on college readiness, effective strategies for increasing student engagement and motivation to work hard and succeed, and new ways to measure student achievement of key learning outcomes.
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