Winter 2009, Vol. 11, No. 1

Assessing
Learning Outcomes :
Lessons from AAC&U’s VALUE Project

This issue focuses on AAC&U’s VALUE project and provides an overview of new assessment approaches it is helping campuses develop, including the application of rubrics assessing a broad set of important learning outcomes using examples of student work completed over time in an e-portfolio. Articles address rubric development, e-portfolios for learning and assessment, assessment processes, and the use of assessment results for individual, program, and institutional improvements.

The Winter 2009 issue of Peer Review has sold out. Selected articles are available online (see below) and the full issue is available as a PDF.

CONTENTS:

From the Director

OVERVIEW

The VALUE Project Overview

ANALYSIS

The Benefits of E-portfolios for Students and Faculty in
Their Own Words
Ross Miller and Wende Morgaine

Moving Beyond a National Habit in the Call for Accountability
Peggy L. Maki

PRACTICE

E-portfolios at 2.0—Surveying the Field
J. Elizabeth Clark and Bret Eynon

Institutional Uses of Rubrics and E-portfolios:
Spelman College and Rose-Hulman Institute
Myra N. Burnett and Julia M. Williams

RESEARCH

Electronic Portfolios a Decade into the Twenty-first Century:
What We Know, What We Need to Know
Kathleen Blake Yancey

RESOURCES

AAC&U Calendar

Highlights on AAC&U Work on Assessment

REALITY CHECK

Higher Education Assessment—
Who Are We Assessing, and for What Purpose?
Diane Auer Jones