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Resources for UCI assessments

    • Undergraduate assessment reporting template 
    • Graduate assessment reporting template
    • Academic Senate rubric for reviewing assessment reports
    • Curriculum mapping guide and template
    • Tips for assessing student learning outcomes
    • Using learning outcomes assessment to improve academic programming
    • Undergraduate Academic Program Review and Program Assessment Schedule
    • Undergraduate assessment report example
    • Call for proposals – General Education Faculty Learning Community (due 9/16/22)
    • Core Competencies survey 

Assessment resources from other universities

    • UC Berkeley resources on rubrics
    • UC Merced Academic Program Assessment glossary
    • UC Riverside Assessment workshops and resources
    • Penn State graduate assessment report examples

Rubrics

      • VALUE rubrics from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (more information on VALUE rubrics here)
        • Civic Engagement (pdf, doc)
        • Creative Thinking (pdf, doc)
        • Critical Thinking (pdf, doc)
        • Ethical Reasoning (pdf, doc)
        • Global Learning (pdf, doc)
        • Information Literacy (pdf, doc)
        • Inquiry and Analysis (pdf, doc)
        • Integrative Learning (pdf, doc)
        • Intercultural Knowledge and Competence (pdf, doc)
        • Lifelong Learning (pdf, doc)
        • Oral Communication (pdf, doc)
        • Problem Solving (pdf, doc)
        • Quantitative Literacy (pdf, doc)
        • Reading (pdf, doc)
        • Teamwork (pdf, doc)
        • Written Communication (pdf, doc)
      • UC Berkeley resources on rubrics

References and resources

    • Assessment Update, an award-winning bi-monthly publication from Wiley, is committed to sharing emerging and enduring developments, practices, and thought leadership in the dynamic and continually evolving field of higher education assessment and improvement.
    • Allen, M. J. (2004). Assessing academic programs in higher education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Anker.
    • Suskie, L. (2018). Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
    • Suskie, L. Blog A Common Sense Approach to Assessment in Higher Education. Available at: https://lindasuskie.com/apps/blog
    • WASC Senior College and University Commission. (2015). Handbook of accreditation (Rev. ed.). Alameda, CA: WASC Senior College and University Commission. Available at: https://www.wscuc.org/handbook/

Higher education associations:

    • Association of American Colleges and Universities
    • Association for Institutional Research
    • Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education
    • American Evaluation Association
    • Association for the Study of Higher Education
    • American Educational Research Association
    • National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
    • Western Association of Schools and Colleges
    • Survey resources from UC Irvine’s OIT (e.g., Qualtrics, YuJu, Canvas Quizzes)
    • UCI Measuring Undergraduate Success Trajectories project (UCI-MUST)
    • UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES)

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    Venette Van Duyn, PhD
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