About Academic Assessment
Assessment Resources
Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education
by Catherine Palomba and Trudy Banta
Assessment Essentials provides a comprehensive overview of academic assessment, starting with developing a plan and concluding with suggestions on reporting assessment results to various constituencies (e.g. accreditors).
This resource is available in the Penrose Library collection. Click here to view additional information. 
Assessment Clear and Simple
by Barbara Walvoord
Walvoord's guide includes chapters written especially for departments and programs, for those assessing general education, and for institution-wide planners. The appendices also include sample rubrics and a number of examples of departmental goals.
This resource is available in the Penrose Library collection. Click here to view additional information.
Designing Effective Assessment
by Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black
This book offers a set of principles for good practice in academic assessment and many examples of those principles in practice. The examples are broken down into categories that offer specific insights for undergraduate programs, graduate programs, general education, and more.
Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide
by Linda Suskie
Suskie's book provides a step-by-step guide to academic assessment, including an introduction to assessment, a guide to planning assessment (including suggestions on developing a culture of assessment), examples of assesssment tools for many purposes, and a discussion of how to translate assessment results into meaningful action.
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
by T.A. Angelo and P. Cross
This resource is available in the Penrose Library collection. Click here to view additional information.
Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
by L.D. Fink
This resource is available in the Penrose Library collection. Click here to view additional information.
Assessing Learning in the Classroom
by J. McTighe and S. Ferrara
This resource is available in the Penrose Library collection. Click here to view additional information.
The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment
The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative put together this highly-detailed, comprehensive sourcebook on assessment in 2000. Volume 1 covers the assessment of critical thinking, problem-solving and writing skills (including in-depth discussion of measurement problems, recommended approaches, and sample rubrics). Volume 2 supplies several case studies of colleges and universities developing, implementing, and adapting in response to assessment programs.
A guide to the assessment design process
A guide to developing assessments, with an emphasis on rater training and reliability - drawn from A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment by Herman, Aschbacher and Winters.
Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
These principles, developed by the American Association of Higher Education's Assessment Forum, provide valuable guidelines for developing academic assessments.
The Office of Assessment at North Carolina State University maintains a comprehensive page of assessment resources.
Student Learning, Assessment, and Accreditation
A statement from the Higher Learning Commission on how assessment relates to accreditation.
Introduction to Student Learning Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes: A Faculty Resource on Development and Assessment
A good overview of the purpose, development and implementation of student learning outcomes from the University of Washington.
Writing Student Learning Outcomes
A guide to writing effective, meaningful, and measurable student learning outcomes for any level of assessment.
Graduate and Professional Student Learning Assessment
Graduate/Professional/Doctoral Assessment Workshop
In June 2008, faculty from across DU were brought together for a workshop on assessing graduate, professional and doctoral programs hosted by noted expert Peggy Maki, PhD. A video of the workshop, a copy of Dr. Maki's presentation, and the workshop handouts are all available here.
Two articles on CATs - CTL Newsletter, Winter 2009
An article discussing the value and use of CATs, accompanied by a discussion of implementing CATs with Blackboard.
50 Classroom Assessment Techniques - Angelo and Cross (1993)
An extensive list of possible CATs techniques.
Six Examples of the Fifty Angelo & Cross Classroom Assessment Techniques
Quick techniques for assessment at the course level.
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