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Ideas that Work - Tools

Includes Essentials, General Collections, Manuals, Electronic Portfolios, First-Year Experience, Information Literacy, Service Learning, Discipline-Specific Resources, Interdisciplinary Programs, Distance Learning, and Quick Tools

Essentials

• Authentic Assessment (a brief but clear statement about the relationship between assessment and teaching and learning)

General Collections

• North Carolina State University Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

• Northern Arizona University Online Assessment Tools

• SUNY - Albany Resources on Assessment Methods

• Alternative Assessment in Higher Education: Web sites for a Learner-Centered Approach

• Rubrics in the Age of Accountability Resources from NJIT Video Conference (excellent introduction to rubrics, including many useful examples)

• National Center for Postsecondary Improvement Inventory of Higher Education Assessment Instruments

• Association of American Colleges and Universities Assessment Resources

Manuals

• NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment, Volume 1: Definitions and Assessment Methods for Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Writing

• NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment, Volume 2: Definitions and Assessment Methods for Communication, Leadership, Information Literacy, Quantitative Reasoning, and Quantitative Skills

• Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

• UW-Madison Assessment Manual

Electronic Portfolios

• Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios

• Regis University Electronic Portfolio Basics

First-Year Experience

• National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Assessment Resources

Information Literacy

• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy

• ACRL Science and Engineering/Technology Standards

Service Learning

• National Service Learning Clearinghouse: Selected Resources

Discipline-Specific

• Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide (many useful tools for assessment of learning in the sciences)

• Performance Assessent Links in Science (for K-12, but a useful and adaptable resource on three main areas of performance assessment, standards, tasks and task design, and rubrics).

• American Psychological Assocation (APA) Undergraduate Learning Goals and Outcomes

• APA Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes in the Undergraduate Psychology Major

• Mathematical Association of America Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics

Interdisciplinary Programs

• Interdisciplinary Program Assessment (Stowe and Eder, Issues in Integrative Studies, 2002)

• Interdisciplinary Writing Assessment Profiles (Wolfe and Haynes, Issues in Integrative Studies, 2003)

• Interdisciplinary Studies Project (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

• Accreditation Criteria for Interdisciplinary Studies in General Education (Miami University of Ohio)

Distance Learning

• Distance Learning Programs:  Interregional Guidelines for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs (Middle States Commission on Higher Education; pdf)

• Guiding Principles for Faculty in Distance Learning (Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System)

• Distance Education Quality Principles (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Resources for On-line/Distance Education Assessment (University of Maryland)

Quick Tools

• Teaching Goals Inventory

• University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Classroom Assessment Techniques