Resources for Institutions Working On Developing Authentic Assessments
The resources below are intended to accompany the discussion prompts focusing on The LEAP Challenge for individuals interested in bringing the AAC&U Centennial to their campus.
Initial Reading
- Our Students’ Best Work: A Framework for Accountability Worthy of Our Mission
- A statement on and framework for thoughtful assessment and accountability, from AAC&U’s Board of Directors
- Assessing College Student Learning: Evaluating Alternative Models, Using Multiple Methods (available for purchase)
- Explains the theories of learning underlying diverse methods of assessment, offers practical guidance on how to select among them, and presents case studies of implementation
- VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) rubrics
- Collaboratively-generated rubrics to assess 16 liberal education learning outcomes
Additional Resources
- Using the VALUE Rubrics for Improvement of Learning and Authentic Assessment (available for purchase)
- Provides information about rubric-based assessment and faculty training in the use of rubrics, as well as examples of how campuses are using the VALUE rubrics to improve student learning
- Making Progress? What We Know about the Achievement of Liberal Education Outcomes (available for purchase)
- Provides an overview of national data from a variety of studies of student learning and presents comparative data on achievement over time across an array of liberal education outcomes
- Assessing Underserved Students’ Engagement in High-Impact Practices
- Reports on a mixed-methods study of the relationship between high-impact practices and underserved students’ success and learning, and provides recommendations for advancing this work on campuses
- E-portfolios: for Reflection, Learning, and Assessment (Peer Review Winter ’14)
- Provides examples of how e-portfolios can enhance student learning as well as their professional preparation
- Degree Qualifications Profile
- Charts degree-related levels of competence which every college student should achieve and integrate in five areas: broad and specialized knowledge, intellectual skills, applied learning, and civic learning
- Engaging Departments: Assessing Student Learning (Peer Review Winter ’10)
- Explores how departments across a variety of disciplines have developed assessment approaches that deepen student learning
- Student Outcomes Assessment Among the New Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Majority
- Explores the potential for non-tenure-track faculty to meaningfully contribute to student learning outcomes assessment and outlines policies and practices that can facilitate such contributions
- Campus case studies
- Search campus models for specific illustrations of effective assessment
