Assessment Resources

Materials from the Graduate School's Learning Assessment Workshop:

• Assessment of Graduate Programs: Clear Simple, and USEFUL (PDF)
• Video from Learning Assessment Workshop

Examples of assessment in graduate education:

• Yale
• Rutgers
• University of California, Stanislaus
• Marquette University, College of Engineering
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept of Botany
• University of South Florida
• West Virginia University
• Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• California State University, Pomona, Biological Sciences
• Stanford:
  • http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/irds/assessment/
  • http://vpge.stanford.edu/programs/index.html
  • http://wasc.stanford.edu/standard-4-creating-organization-committed-learning-and-improvement
• North Carolina State University
• University of North Dakota
• Purdue University:  Graduate Learning Assessment Outcomes (PDF)

Examples of assessment in professional schools:

Medicine: http://www.acgme.org/outcome/comp/GeneralCompetenciesStandards21307.pdf

Law (University of Alabama): http://uaops.ua.edu/right_arm.cfm?col=9&dpt=114

Business:

• http://www.aacsb.edu/resource_centers/assessment
• http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~cba/assessment/AssessmentPlan-MBA.pdf

Publications about assessment:

• The Assessment of Doctoral Education: Emerging Criteria and New Models for Improving Outcomes
• Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs
• Bibliography of assessment materials from American University