Learning About Assessment

• Assessment Site Links - North Carolina State University
• Course-Based Review and Assessment - University of Massachusetts (.pdf) **
• Program Review: A Tool for Continuous Improvement of Academic Programs (.pdf) **
• LENs Faculty Development: Classroom Assessment: Formative Strategies (.pdf) **
• LENs Faculty Development: Instructional Evaluation: Summative Strategies (.pdf) **
• Glossaries of Assessment Terms
• Assessment CyberCuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes (120-page pdf) **
• Rubistar - Free website tool to construct rubrics for project-based learning (requires registration)
• Midterm Assessment of Instruction (.doc) - an informal feedback tool
• Assessment, Accountability, and Improvement: Revisiting the Tension (24-page pdf) - Peter Ewell discusses changes in higher education shaping assessement efforts since the 1980's, and offers four recommendations to resolve the tensions between assessment for continuous improvement and assessment for accountability.

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