Additional resources
People
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Each program has a program assessment coordinator and a University Assessment, Academic Program Review & Accreditation Council representative to help communicate information related to assessment. Learn who yours are and how to reach them.
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The Office for Teaching and Learning offers workshops and individual consultations on assessment.
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Institutional Research and Data Analytics provides dashboards of institutional data and supports individual data requests as well
Classroom assessment techniques
- WSU's Office for Teaching and Learning provides a guide to 43 classroom assessment techniques, many of which can be adapted to program-level assessment.
General Education (Gen Ed) assessment
- The Gen Ed website includes an overview of the process, instructor responsibilities, tutorials,and presentations
- The General Education Oversight Committee's email address for related questions: gened@wayne.edu
Statistics tutorials
- Descriptive statistics, a beginner's guide with definitions of essential terminology and an overview of what descriptive statistic do for you (i.e., show frequency of responses, most common response, variation in responses, etc.)
- Basic inferential statistics, a beginner's guide to statistics used with different data types (categorical, numerical) that help you compare groups and generalize from a sample to a population
Qualitative data tutorials
- Qualitative Data Analysis 101 Tutorial: 6 Analysis Methods + Examples, a beginner's guide to six common approaches (content, narrative, discourse and thematic analysis; grounded theory; interpretive phenomenalogical analysis), their uses, advantages, disadvantages, and how to choose among them
- Beginners' guide to coding qualitative data, a visual walk-through of how to mark up or code your data to help you understand and interpret it; an excellent complement to the tutorial on qualitative methods above
Student and program data (possible indirect assessments)
Publications and media
- Assessment Update , a bi-monthly periodical that provides practical examples and advice for assessing student learning in higher education
- Intersection , a quarterly publication by Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) covering events and news within the organization and short articles and interviews on the practice of assessment in higher education. AALHE also publishes Emerging Dialogues, discussions about current issues and challenges in assessment.
- National Institution for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) publications, which include research reports, occasional papers that examine current issues in assessment, presentations, newsletters, and more
- Walvoord, Barbara E. Fassler, Assessment clear and simple: A practical guide for institutions, departments, and general education . The chapter on quick and dirty assessment is particularly helpful. (Requires WSU credentials for login)
- Maki, Peggy L. Assessing for learning . (Requires WSU credentials for login)
Professional organizations and conferences
- ASSESS listserv (To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU with the following command in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE ASSESS)
- Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) - June conference
- Assessment Institute - October conference
- National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) - research on and resources for assessment
- Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) - national initiatives on assessment