Curriculum Resources
Assessment
Value Added Assessment of Liberal Education (Peer Review, Winter/Spring 2002)
This special issue presents the RAND Corporation/Council for Aid to Education’s Value Added Assessment Initiative, a long-term project to assess the quality of undergraduate liberal education in America at the institutional level. Also included are several initial responses to the initiative
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
The National Study of Student Engagement(NSSE) is designed to obtain, on an annual basis, information from scores of colleges and universities nationwide about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development. The results provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college.
Student Assessment of Learning Gains Instrument
The Student Assessment of Learning Gains Instrument is designed for instructors from all disciplines who wish to learn more about how students evaluate various course elements in terms of how much they have gained from them. Feedback from the instrument can guide instructors in modifying their courses to enhance student learning. It may be used at any point during a course (for formative feedback) as well as at the end. This free site is offered as a service to the college-level teaching community. Once you've registered, you can do the following both quickly and easily: modify the SALG instrument so that it fits your own course design; enable your students to complete this instrument on-line; and review and download a statistical analysis of the students' responses.
Higher Education
Research Institute
The Higher Education Research Institute, based in the Graduate School of
Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, serves
as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and
research training in postsecondary education. HERI's research program covers such topics
as the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance,
federal and state policy, and educational equity. The Institute's holdings include more
than a hundred datasets that are regularly maintained for analysis of postsecondary
education. With the American Council on Education, HERI sponsors the Cooperative Institutional Research Program
(CIRP). The HERI web site contains the 1999 Freshman Survey Press Release and
the 1999 Freshman Survey Executive Summary.
The Cooperative Institutional
Research Program (CIRP)
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) is a national longitudinal
study of the American higher education system that is sponsored by the American Council on
Education and the Higher Education
Research Institute (HERI) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Established in
1966 at the American Council on Education, the CIRP is the nation's largest and
oldest empirical study of higher education and includes the Freshman Survey, College
Student Survey, Entering Student Survey, and Faculty Survey.
The American
Association for Higher Education (AAHE) Assessment Forum
The AAHE Assessment Forum is a national network that connects and supports members of the higher education community who are involved in assessment. The Forum
"promotes thoughtful, effective approaches to assessment that involve faculty,
benefit students, and improve the quality of teaching and learning." Through
publishing, networking, and sponsoring an annual national conference, the AAHE Assessment
Forum helps campuses, programs, and individuals in planning, implementing, and sharing the
results of their assessment efforts.
ERIC/AE Database of Current
Abstracts on Assessment
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation (ERIC/AE) has put up
an experimental database of abstracts for the most recent articles and papers on
assessment, evaluation, research methods and learning theory. These abstracts
developed by ERIC/AE can be viewed as they are developed - typically within 2 or 3 weeks
of the Clearinghouse receiving a paper or journal issue.
ERIC CRIB Sheet on Assessment
Critical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheets are brief selected ERIC bibliographies on
topics of interest in the field of higher education. All CRIB Sheets are
quarterly. The Assessment bibliography includes the topics of Institutional
Assessment; Assessment and Learning Environment; Methods/Techniques; and
Statewide/Regional and National Approaches.
Alverno College
Since the early 1970s, the Alverno College faculty have been developing and
implementing ability-based undergraduate education, redefining education in terms of
abilities needed for effectiveness in the worlds of work, family, and civic community. The
ability-based approach makes explicit the expectation that students be able to put their
knowledge to use. In addition, Alverno faculty have developed the concept of
continuous student assessment as part of the learning process.
AAC&U offers these resources only as possible models of interest and has not submitted each of them to any substantial peer or quality review. If you have questions about any particular resource, please contact the institution sponsoring it directly.
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