Resources
Assessment handbook
Assessment Mentor Program
The Assessment Mentor Program is designed to provide help for those would like assistance in learning more about assessment of student learning, developing an assessment plan, restructuring and/or rewriting student learning outcomes and more. The University Assessment Steering Committee has identified several mentors who are available for faculty, staff and departments to work with to assist with assessment efforts. If you are interested, please contact the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and we can connect you with a mentor.
Workshops and conferences
WMU Annual Assessment Conference
Assessment conferences
- Assessment Institute
- Association of American Colleges and Universities: Events
- North Central Association Higher Learning Commission annual conference
University assessment websites of interest
- Ball State University
- Kansas State University
- National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
- North Carolina State University
- University of Kentucky
Web sites Useful for Developing Learning Outcomes/Objectives
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (Writing Student Learning Outcomes)
- University of Rhode Island
- University of West Florida
Nationally available commercial instruments for assessment
- Association of American Colleges and Universities VALUE rubrics
- Educational Testing Service
- Inventory of Higher Education Assessment Instruments (National Center for Post-secondary Improvement)
- National Post secondary Education Cooperative
Read about assessment
Online resources
- American Association of Higher Education's 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
- Association for Institutional Research
- Data Audit and Analysis Toolkit to Support Assessment of the First Year of College (Paulson, 2003)
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (online journal 1999-present)
- The National Teaching and Learning Forum (Wiley online library)