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Assessment Resources and Readings

General Overview

• Chapter 3: Evaluating Student Learning from the Middles States Commission on Higher Education publication "Student Learning Assessment (and applicable appendices)
• Chapter 6: Choosing an Assessment Strategy from Linda Suskie's "Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide"
• ABET "Communications Link" Assessment Tips with Gloria Rogers

Capstone (Embedded Assessment)

• Embedded Assessments: Advantages, Disadvantages, Examples and How-tos
  Skidmore College
• "An Assessment Program Built Around a Capstone Course"
  In Mathematics, by Charles Peltier
  Saint Mary's College
• Assessment of Capstone Course Experiences - Three Examples
  Computer Science
  Chemistry
  Education
  University of Minnesota, Morris
• “Toward a Philosophy for Capstone Courses in Horticulture”
  by Tim Rhodus and James Hoskins, published in HortTechnology 5(2):175-178, April-June, 1995. Ohio State University

Course Grading and Assessment

• Walvoord. B.E. and Anderson , V.J. (1998) Effective Grading: a tool for learning and assessment. San Francisco , CA : Jossey-Bass. – Grading standards may be vague or inconsistent but also – grades tied to explicit learning goals and standards can be used for assessment
• Association of American College and Universities (2002) Greater Expectations: A new vision for learning as a nation goes to college. Washington , D.C http://www.greaterexpectations.org. – Grades do not reflect all learning experiences
• Seeley, M.M (1994) The mismatch between assessment and grading. Educational Leadership, 52(2), 4-6
• From Walvoord’s Assessment Clear and Simple
• A step-by-step guide on building assessment on the grading process (pp. 13-20 and 60-61)

Rubrics

• Chapter 6: Using Rubrics to Provide Feedback to Students from Mary E. Huba's and Jann E. Freed's "Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning"
• Rubrics and Grading from TCNJ's Writing Program Resources
• General overview of rubrics in assessment from the Georgia Educational Technology Training Center at Kennesaw State University
• An excerpt from Chapter 1 and Appendix A from Barbara E. Walvoord's "Assessment Clear and Simple"
  

Surveys

• Measuring Quality: Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality by Victor M.H. Borden with Jody L. Zak Owens American Council on Education (ACE) and Association of Institutional Research (AIR) 2001.

Quantitative Reasoning

• Chapter 7: Teaching and Assessing Quantitative Literacy by Suzanne Mente in Assessment of Student Learning in College Mathematics: Towards Improved Programs and Courses
• An Assessment of General Education Mathematics Courses’ Contribution to Quantitative Literacy by Aimee J.Ellington in Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics
• Two Examples from Miller Ross's Assessment in Cycles of Improvement: Faculty Designs for Essential Learning Outcomes
  • Mathematical Knowledge and Appreciation (Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia)
  • Quantitative Literacy (Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)