Campus Priority
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.
Initiative
VALUE is an authentic approach to assessment designed to articulate and measure the skills, abilities, and dispositions that students need and that parents, policymakers, and employers demand.
Initiative
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.
About AAC&U
The Excellence in Assessment designation recognizes institutions that successfully integrate assessment practices, provide evidence of student learning outcomes, and use assessment results to guide institutional decision-making.
Institute\
AAC&U’s year-long Institute on Open Educational Resources (OER) is designed for campuses aspiring to launch or expand initiatives to develop or leverage free and affordable materials in teaching and learning contexts.
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AAC&U’s year-long Institute on Open Educational Resources (OER) is designed for campuses aspiring to launch or expand initiatives to develop or leverage free and affordable materials in teaching and learning contexts.
Research
Findings from a national survey of higher education professionals across campus roles and institutional types
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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.
On-Demand Webinar
The college experience—designed to educate the whole person—is not confined to the classroom, and neither is student learning.
Publication
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
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
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...