Assessment Resources
Resources for UC Irvine assessments
- Undergraduate assessment reporting template
- Graduate assessment reporting template
- Academic Senate rubric for reviewing assessment reports
- Curriculum mapping guide and template
- Tips for assessing student learning outcomes
- Using learning outcomes assessment to improve academic programming
- Undergraduate Academic Program Review and Program Assessment Schedule
- Undergraduate assessment report example
Assessment resources from external higher education organizations
Rubrics
- UC Berkeley resources on rubrics
- American Association of Colleges and Universities’s VALUE rubrics
- Civic Engagement (pdf, doc)
- Creative Thinking (pdf, doc)
- Critical Thinking (pdf, doc)
- Ethical Reasoning (pdf, doc)
- Global Learning (pdf, doc)
- Information Literacy (pdf, doc)
- Inquiry and Analysis (pdf, doc)
- Integrative Learning (pdf, doc)
- Intercultural Knowledge and
- Competence (pdf, doc)
- Lifelong Learning (pdf, doc)
- Oral Communication (pdf, doc)
- Problem Solving (pdf, doc)
- Quantitative Literacy (pdf, doc)
- Reading (pdf, doc)
- Teamwork (pdf, doc)
- Written Communication (pdf, doc)
Glossary
UC Merced Academic Program Assessment glossary
Graduate Assessment Reports
Best Practices References and Publications
- Assessment Update, an award-winning bi-monthly publication from Wiley, is committed to sharing emerging and enduring developments, practices, and thought leadership in the dynamic and continually evolving field of higher education assessment and improvement.
- Allen, M. J. (2004). Assessing academic programs in higher education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Anker.
- Suskie, L. (2018). Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Suskie, L. Blog A Common Sense Approach to Assessment in Higher Education.
WASC Senior College and University Commission. (2015). Handbook of accreditation (Rev. ed.). Alameda, CA: WASC Senior College and University Commission.
Associations
- Association for Institutional Research
- Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education
- American Evaluation Association
- Association for the Study of Higher Education
- American Educational Research Association
- National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges