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1. General Assessment Definitions
2. Types of assessment
   • Learning Outcomes
   • Usage
   • Needs Assessment
   • Satisfaction
   • Benchmarking
   • Cost effectiveness
   • Feasibility
   • Other types of assessment
3. Higher Education Assessment Populations
   • Students (graduate and undergraduates)
   • Parents
   • Faculty and Staff Members/Administrators
   • Alumni
   • Community Members
4. Administration Methods
   • Document Analysis
   • Existing Data
   • Focus Groups
   • Interviews
   • One-Minute Assessments
   • Portfolios
   • Surveys: Online and Telephone
   • Visual Methods
5. Divisional/departmental assessment in higher education at the institutional level
   • Student Affairs assessment
   • Academic Affairs assessment
     1. Program evaluation
     2. General education
     3. Course evaluations
     4. Faculty evaluations
   • Institutional Research
   • Institutional Effectiveness
6. 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
7. Guiding documents and frameworks
   • Foundations for CAS Standards
   • Learning Reconsidered and Learning Reconsidered 2
   • Assessment Reconsidered
   • AAC&U LEAP
8. 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
9. Assessment tools
   • StudentVoice
   • Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
   • Statistical Analysis Software (SAS)
   • E-portfolios
10. Assessment Research and Terminology
    • Quantitative Research
    • Qualitative Research
    • Direct and Indirect measures
    • Population and Sample
    • Sampling Methods
    • Response rate
    • Correlation and Causation
    • Types of survey design
    • Types of survey questions
    • Other survey design terms
    • Scaling choices (Likert, dichotomous)
    • Measures of central tendency
    • Standard deviation, normal distribution, standard error, confidence interval
    • Stats tests (t-test, anova, regression)
11. Assessment reporting
    • Data interpretation
    • Data-driven decision making
    • Links to budgeting
12. Assessment scholars
    • Marilee Bresciani
    • George Kuh
    • Peggy Maki
    • M. Lee Upcraft and John Schuh
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. Accreditation
17. Accountability
    • Federal accountability
    • Challenges to Accountability
18. Assessment Hot Topics/Trends in Assessment Research

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