- The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) offers useful resources and discussion on e-portfolios.
- The Association for Assessment of Learning in Higher Education. (AALHE) is a hub for practical information and access to communities-of-practice who are trying to do assessment in a variety of higher education contexts. A search of their Listserv archives has proven very useful for practiocal models and tips for getting faculty buy-in, etc.
- University of Connecticut provides a useful document for developing learning outcomes. The content is more relevant for undergraduate level but the reasoning is applicable more generally and the process for developing succinct, measurable outcomes is sound.
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges - Rubrics for capstones, learning outcomes, assessment cycle, re-accreditation requirements.
- The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) - Find NILOA's assessment resources and discipline-specific resources.
- North Carolina State University's meta-list of assessment-related links.
- The Association of American Colleges and Universities' assessment resources page.
- Accessible publications that cover the latest developments in higher education assessment include Assessment Update and Research & Practice in Assessment.
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis hosts the nation's oldest and largest assessment conference, the Assessment Institute. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges also hosts an annual conference, the Academic Resource Conference.
- Searchable archives of the Assessment in Higher Education listserv.
- Assessment Quickies from California State University, Long Beach.
- Rubistar Rubric Development Application (Free!) Excellent resource of rubric templates that you can create, download, and adapt for your own purposes based on genre and discipline. The templates are geared toward more elementary levels of instruction but are good models that you can flesh out with practice.
- Resources for teaching and learning from opened practices, a site for open/community-source tools.
- Association for American Colleges and Universities' VALUE rubrics:
- Professional associations involved in higher education assessment include:
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- American Evaluation Association (AEA). Navigate to AEA's resources. Find information about AEA's annual conference.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's list of evaluation resources.
- For sample evaluations, see the U.S. Government Accountability Office's program evaluation page.
- The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University maintains a handy set of evaluation checklists.
- Searchable archives of the American Evaluation Association listserv.
- Publications that cover the latest developments in evaluation include American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation, and Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation.
