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.
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.
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\
To meet institutional effectiveness standards, colleges and universities must demonstrate how the results generated by assessment and evaluation activities translate into evidence that is used to inform decisions regarding institutional practice.
On-Demand Webinar\
The college experience—designed to educate the whole person—is not confined to the classroom, and neither is student learning.
On-Demand Webinar\
While the term itself may be part of an individual job title or office name, assessment is a shared responsibility that requires coordination and collaboration across an institution.
On-Demand Webinar\
Beginning with campus closures in spring 2020 through today, COVID-19 disrupted higher education like nothing else in modern memory. It will likely take years to assess and understand fully the effects of all this.