Basic Assessment Resources from the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE)
- Principles that underlie assessment of student learning
- Research and learning, pedagogy and methods of assessment
- The scholarship of assessment
- Internet meta-sites
- National projects
- Authentic Assessment — Guidelines for writing rubrics
Principles that underlie assessment of student learning
American Association for Higher Education, American College Personnel Association, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. 1998. “Powerful Partnerships: A Shared Responsibility for Learning.” http://www.aahe.org/assessment/joint.htm
American Association for Higher Education. 1987. “Nine Principles for Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning.”http://www.aahe.org/assessment/principl.htm
Angelo, Thomas. 1999. “Doing Assessment as if Learning Matters Most.” AAHE Bulletin. May.http://www.aahebulletin.com/public/archive/archive.asp#assessment
Cambridge, Barbara, et. al, eds. 2001. Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Washington, DC: AAHE.http://www.aahe.ital.utexas.edu/electronicportfolios
Huba, Mary E. and Freed, Jann E. 2000. Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning. MA: Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon.
Maki, Peggy. Forthcoming, 2004. A Framework for Building a Sustainable Institutional Commitment to Assessing Student Learning. Stylus Publishing and AAHE.
Maki, Peggy. 2002. “Developing an Assessment Plan to Learn about Student Learning.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship. (pre-publication version at http://www.aahe.org/assessment/assessmentplan.htm. Use Adobe Acrobat Reader for charts.)
Maki, Peggy. 2002. “Moving from Paperwork to Pedagogy: Channeling Intellectual Curiosity into a Commitment to Assessment.” AAHE Bulletin. May. http://www.aahebulletin.com/public/archive/paperwork.asp
Palomba, Catherine A., and Banta, Trudy B. 1999. Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing and Improving Assessment in Higher Education. CA: Jossey-Bass.
Shavelson, Richard J. and Huang, Leta. 2003. “Responding Responsibly to the Frenzy to Assess Learning in Higher Education.” Change. January/February. 10-19.
Research and learning, pedagogy and methods of assessment
Bransford, John D., Brown, Ann L., and Cocking, Rodney R. eds. 1999. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. http://books.nap.edu
Halpern, Diane and Hakel, Milton. Eds. 2002. Applying the Science of Learning to University Teaching and Beyond. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. Spring. No. 89. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Mentkowski, Marcia and Associates. 2000. Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
National Research Council. 2001. Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu
Suskie, Linda, ed. 2000. Assessment to Promote Deep Learning, Washington, DC: AAHE.
Svinicki, Marilla D., ed. 1999. Teaching and Learning on the Edge of the Millennium: Building on What We Have Learned. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. November 80. Winter. CA: Jossey-Bass.
Zull, James E. 2002. The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing
The scholarship of assessment
Banta, Trudy W. and Associates. 2002. Building a Scholarship of Assessment. CA: Jossey-Bass.
Huber, Mary Taylor and Morreale, Sherwyn P., eds. 2002. Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Internet meta-sites
http://www.aahe.org/assessment/assess_links.htm: Online assessment.
http://www.aahe.org/teaching/portfolio_db.htm: Portfolio clearinghouse.
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
http://ericae.net/: Eric Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation.
National Projects
http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/: Policy Center on the First Year of College
http://www.brevard.edu/firstyearhallmarks/:Hallmarks of Excellence project, an aspirational model for the first year of college and a method to evaluate campus achievement of these hallmarks.
http://www.indiana.edu/~nsse/: National Survey of Student Engagement. See Project DEEP.
http://www.pkal.org/: Project Kaleidoscope focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/: Visible Knowledge Project focuses on improving the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. Strong bibliography on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
http://km12.carnegiefoundation.org/html/gallery.php: The Knowledge Media Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching provides examples of ways that faculty can make ideas, insights, and new understandings generated in the course of teaching available so that others can build upon them.