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American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) Assessment Forum "is the primary national network connecting and supporting higher education stakeholders involved in assessment. It promotes thoughtful, effective approaches to assessment that involve faculty, benefit students, and improve the quality of teaching and learning. It helps campuses, programs, and individuals to plan, implement, and share the results of their assessment efforts by publishing, networking, and sponsoring an annual national conference" (from the AAHE site).
- Assessment-related discussion lists (listservs) include the following:
- ASSESS-L (Leave the subject line blank and put subscribe ASSESS-L first-name last-name in the body of the message.)
- HEPROC, the Higher Education Processes discussion groups.
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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Illinois State University is a useful site for ideas about teaching (improvement) as well as assessment.
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Classroom Assessment Techniques, a very interesting site at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, contains lots of suggestions, tips, and examples. It provides a simple way to draw distinctions between assessment and grading, and the page contains an appropriate quotation from long-time assessment consultant Peter Ewell: "Why do we insist on measuring it with a micrometer when we mark it with chalk and cut it with an axe?" The most recent addition to the site is material on the guided essay.
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CYBER CATS: Classroom Assessment Techniques is a site at Eastern New Mexico University that contains links to other CATs web sites (including the SIUE link above), an online version of the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) for faculty, and other CAT information. Penn State has an Introduction to Classroom Assessment Techniques as a part of their site for the Center for Excellence in Learning & Teaching.
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Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an organization well known to most people in higher edcuation. This is their main site/page. For more direct access to ERIC information on topics pertaining to assessment, please see the next link.
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation "seeks to provide (1) balanced information concerning educational assessment and (2) resources to encourage responsible test use" (from the ERIC site). A subset of this rich site is called Assessment and Evaluation on the Net, which provides a very useful set of links.
- ERIC also provides a number of CRIBs (critical issues
bulletins) and other resources relevant for assessment, teaching, and higher education. A few of these links include:
- HEPROC,
"the Higher Education Processes network. HEPROC is a well-developed, well-maintained community of thoughtful educators who serve each other as networking partners. Comprising 2200 members in 40 countries, and over a dozen forums covering specialized subjects, HEPROC can help with your research and informational needs" (from the HEPROC site). HEPROC has been active since 1993-94.
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Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment at North Carolina State has most (maybe all) of the links listed here and more. It is an excellent resource for assessment information on the web.
- Journals and articles on assessment:
- Adult Assessment Forum of the Phoenix Institute is "a quarterly journal dedicated to assessment issues in higher education."
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American Evaluation Association's (AEA) topical interest group on assessment in higher education contains review articles of general interest, on assessment, and about faculty and course evaluation.
- Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education "is an established international refereed journal which publishes papers and reports on all aspects of assessment and evaluation within the various disciplines representative of higher education" (from the site). The journal is published quarterly.
- Assessment Update: Progress, Trends, and Practices in Higher Education is a Jossey-Bass site (bi-monthly newsletter) that "is dedicated to covering the latest developments in the rapidly evolving area of higher education assessment. [It] offers all academic leaders up-to-date information and practical advice on conducting assessments in a range of areas, including student learning and outcomes, faculty instruction, academic programs and curricula, student services, and overall institutional functioning" (from the site). Note that
Assessment Update: The First Ten Years, a collection of columns drawn from the newsletter, is available from NCHEMS.
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The Xchange Newsletter is a publication of the South Carolina Higher Education Assessment Network. Issue No. 27, Winter, 1999 was posted when this list was prepared.
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National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) "is a private nonprofit (501)(c)(3) organization whose mission is to assist colleges and universities as they improve their management capability. Through its more than thirty years of service to higher education, NCHEMS has been committed to bridging the gap between research and practice by placing the latest managerial concepts and tools in the hands of working administrators on college and university campuses. Since its founding, NCHEMS has received widespread acclaim for developing practical responses to the strategic issues facing leaders of higher education institutions and agencies. Established to meet the needs of working administrators, NCHEMS delivers research-based expertise, practical experience, information, and a range of management tools that can help institutions improve both their efficiency and their effectiveness" (from the NCHEMS site).
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Porfolio Assessment. This is another SIUE link that is entitled "Properties of Student Academic Portfolios." There are links to sites using portfolios primarily for the assessment of students and primarily for the assessment of programs, two rather different purposes.
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Software for Web-Based Surveys is a site at the University of North Carolina containing the results of a 1998 e-survey of ASSESS-L list members plus other information that the authors turned up. The site is essentially a list with links and has (intentionally) very little evaluative information.
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Student Affairs Research and Assessment is a site at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, that contains a variety of links, literature resources, and other assessment information. Also see Student Affairs-Related Outcomes Instruments, a somewhat old but still useful and fairly comprehensive site containing descriptions, authors, publishers, costs, reliability and validity, and other information on numerous instruments (many of which may be of interest to people outside student affairs divisions).
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Suggestions for Getting Started, the sub-subtitle of a page called "Student Outcomes Assessment: Opportunities and Strategies," maintained by California Academic Press (CAP). CAP bills itself as "leaders in critical thinking assessment."
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