Links to Valuable Assessment Resources

Links from these central sites connect you to just about
every known assessment site.

Student Learning Outcomes Recommended Reading

Offline references and online links to papers on student learning outcomes.

Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs

Six regional accrediting bodies' set of recommendations for building and evaluating online-education programs.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

This is the main jumping-in place to the vast reservoir of information in Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) of the U. S. Department of Education. See in particular Assessment and Evaluation on the Internet for a very useful and exhaustive listing of assessment resources by category, and ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation for entrance into an extensive array of assessment and alternative assessment resources.

League for Innovation Online Bookstore

This is an annotated list of publications on teaching and learning which are of particular interest to faculty, especially community college faculty.

Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

This site at the University of North Carolina is a useful, extensive, annotated set of assessment links, organized by category.

Internet Resources for Institutional Research

This is a very extensive inventory of Assessment and Institutional Research resources and web links. Lots of information, and countless links to even more, including some 220 institutional research office websites.

Resource Websites for Strategic Planning and Performance Assessment

This site provides a list of websites on strategic analysis and performance assessment, including links to many research and assessment websites.

National Center for Educational Statistics Publications

This site features a large number of complete reports from NCES on a wide range of outcomes assessments, such as Stopouts or Stayouts? Undergraduates Who Leave College in Their First Year, among many others.

Nat'l Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST):

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing. There are also links to a score of other interesting sites.

The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements

provides professional assistance, expertise, and information to users of commercially published tests about test selection, utilization, and practice. Publishes of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print series, and sponsors the journal Applied Measurement in Education.

Institutional Effectiveness Resources on the Internet

A listing of about a dozen links to various assessment sites.

Center for Critical Thinking Resource Page

The Center for Critical Thinking has created a wealth of information, including instructional guides and lesson plans to help educators implement Critical Thinking in every aspect of their teaching.

Collegeways Home Page

Home of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, and Practice, and numerous articles, references, and links to retention resources.

Listing of College/University Assessment Office Home Pages

A subsection of #2 above, this is a listing of over 200 institutional research home pages.

Washington State Assessment Links