Conference\
Conference on General Education, Assessment, and Pedagogy
Focused on courage, this hybrid conference will promote reflection on current practices and spotlight innovative approaches to reimagining undergraduate education.
Campus Priority
Engaging in Authentic Assessment
Increasingly, campus leaders, faculty, and staff are embracing new tools and methods for measuring learning based on students’ authentic work and using the results to improve teaching, learning, and student success.
Featured Resources
Initiative
Teaching-Learning-Assessment Framework
AAC&U’s Teaching-Learning-Assessment (TLA) Framework is a web-based tool developed to help campuses build capacity and lead institutional transformation to Ensure Students Are Learning, as part of the Guided Pathways model for student success.
Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE)
VALUE is an authentic approach to assessment designed to articulate and measure the skills, abilities, and dispositions that students need and that policymakers and employers demand.
Institute\
Institute on Open Educational Resources
Designed to advance campus goals related to affordability, student success, & student learning, this yearlong institute supports the development and implementation of plans for large-scale engagement and adoption of OER.
Institute\
Institute on Open Educational Resources
This institute provides a year long, online engagement opportunity for teams from campuses or state systems seeking to actualize an ambitious strategy to broaden campus engagement with and adoption of open educational resources.
Research
On the Same Page? Administrator and Faculty Views on What Shapes College Learning and Student Success
Findings from a national survey of higher education professionals across campus roles and institutional types
Institute\
2023 Institute on General Education and Assessment
The AAC&U Institute on General Education and Assessment (IGEA) provides opportunities for campus teams to improve the design and assessment of their general education programs.
Publication
A Comprehensive Approach to Assessment of High-Impact Practices
High-impact practices—such as learning communities, capstones, undergraduate research, and community-based experiences—are effective pedagogies, and most of these practices have been around for decades. Given the intense focus across...
Publication
We Have a Rubric for That: The VALUE Approach to Assessment
First introduced in 2009 as an alternative to standardized tests, the VALUE rubrics are now at the center of conversations about the quality of student learning within and across higher education institutions. We Have a Rubric for That reports...
Publication
On Solid Ground: VALUE Report 2017
Drawing from the first two years of data collection and analysis for the VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) initiative, this national report reveals the landscape of student performance on key learning outcomes...
Publication
Rising to the LEAP Challenge: Case Studies of Integrative Pathways to Student Signature Work
This publication presents thirteen case studies that demonstrate the variety of forms signature work can take, as well as the variety of institutional contexts and curricular pathways that can effectively support it.