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Table of Contents

1. General Assessment Definitions
2. History of the assessment movement
   • History
   • Accountability movement
   • Early documents - Nation at Risk, etc.
3. Types of assessment
   • Learning Outcomes
   • Usage
   • Needs Assessment
   • Satisfaction
   • Benchmarking
   • Cost effectiveness
   • Feasibility
   • Other types of assessment
4. Higher Education Assessment Populations
   • Students (graduate and undergraduates)
   • Parents
   • Faculty and Staff Members/Administrators
   • Alumni
   • Community Members
5. Methods of Assessment Distribution
   • Surveys: Online and Telephone
   • Interviews
   • Focus Groups
6. Divisional/departmental assessment in higher education at the institutional level
   • Accreditation
   • Student Affairs assessment
     1. Links to guidance packages for each functional area
   • Academic Affairs assessment
     1. Program Review
     2. General Education
     3. Course evaluations
     4. Faculty evaluations
   • Institutional Research
   • Institutional Effectiveness
7. Assessment planning in higher education
   • Decentralized vs. Centralized Assessment
   • Assessment cycle
   • Assessment calendar or schedule
   • Assessment/strategic planning
     1. Vision
     2. Mission
     3. Goals
     4. Objectives
     5. Outcomes
8. Guiding documents and frameworks
   • Foundations for CAS Standards
   • Learning Reconsidered and Learning Reconsidered 2
   • Assessment Reconsidered
9. National assessment studies
   • National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
   • Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP)
   • CORE Drug and Alcohol Survey
   • National College Health Assessment (NCHA)
   • ACUHO-I/EBI
   • Profile of the American College Student
10. Assessment tools
    • StudentVoice
    • Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
    • Statistical Analysis Software (SAS)
    • E-portfolios
11. Assessment and research terminology
    • Quantitative Research
    • Qualitative Research
    • Sampling methods
    • Response rate
    • Types of survey design
    • Types of survey questions
    • Other survey design terms
    • Scaling choices (Likert, dichotomous)
    • Measures of central tendency
    • Standard deviation, standard error, confidence interval
    • Stats tests (t-test, anova, regression)
12. Methods of assessment reporting (in StudentVoice)
    • Frequency table
    • Using graphs to display data
    • Using figures to display data
    • Cross tabs
13. Assessment reporting
    • Data interpretation
    • Data driven decision making
    • Links to budgeting
14. Assessment scholars
    • Marilee Bresciani
    • George Kuh
    • Peggy Maki
    • M. Lee Upcraft and John Schuh
15. National Associations
    • AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
    • AAHEA (American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation)
    • AASCU (American Association of State Colleges and Universities)
    • ACPA (American College Personnel Association)
    • AIR (Association for Institutional Research)
    • ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education)
    • CHEA (Council for Higher Education Accreditation)
    • COFHE (Consortium on Financing Higher Education)
    • NASPA (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators)
    • NASULGC (National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges)
    • NIRSA (National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association)
    • NODA (National Orientation Directors Association)
    • Other Associations
16. Assessment conferences
    • AAC&U’s Network for Academic Renewal Conference: General Education, Assessment, and the Learning Students Need
    • ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Conference
    • International Association for Educational Assessment Annual Conference
    • IUPUI Assessment Institute
    • NACADA Annual Assessment of Academic Advising Institute
    • NASPA’s Annual Conference
    • NASPA’s International Assessment & Retention Conference
    • National Conference on First-Year Assessment
    • Texas A&M Assessment Conference
17. Assessment resources (Journals/articles/list serv)
    • The Chronicle
    • Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
    • Higher Education Abstracts
    • Journal of Higher Education
    • Research in Higher Education
18. Accountability
    • Federal accountability
      1. Spellings Commission Report
      2. FERPA
      3. Public Information Privacy Act
      4. US Department of Education
      5. Voluntary System of Accountability
    • State accountability
      1. Regional Higher Education Consortiums
      2. State Departments of Higher Education
    • Institutional accountability
      1. Accreditation committees
      2. Student/Academic Affairs assessment committees
19. Assessment Hot Topics/Trends in Assessment Research
20. Misc

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