Michigan Tech's program of Graduate Student Learning Assessment asks the question: Are graduate students learning what we think they are learning? Each graduate program at Michigan Tech has adopted a ...

In order to have quality graduate education, individual courses must have learning outcomes that are appropriate for graduate students. Learning outcomes should emphasize the application, analysis, ...

After the Program Outcomes have been established, the next step and in many ways, the first step in the actual assessment cycle is to identify the learning outcomes that should occur for each course.

Outcomes can be at the university, program or course level. Learning outcomes may be defined as the change in a student’s knowledge or skills as a result of the student’s experience(s). The focus of ...

Direct Measures of student learning consider actual student work or behavior as evidence of student learning outcomes. Direct measures are most often drawn from student work embedded in a course (such ...

This website is intended to make available general information on student outcomes assessment and specific information related to the assessment at NTID, one of the nine colleges of Rochester ...

As an administrator, I have been skeptical of using data to measure the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Yet I know that we must find ways to determine if we are providing students with the ...

At Northwestern University, we believe that student learning happens throughout and across the college experience. The following four broad, division-wide student learning domains and related student ...

In keeping with the university’s commitment to excellent educational experiences and high-quality programs for its students, and consistent with practices at other institutions within the state and ...

E very six years, the accountability police swoop down on my campus in the form of WASC, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The West Coast accreditation organization comes to Scripps, as ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...