College and University Assessment Web Pages

Here's how one university views student assessment:

"Universities are about hope.  If you listen to the stories of students, parents, staff, and faculty, many are stories of hard work and sacrifice in order for them to be at Syracuse University.  If you listen to what we celebrate at graduations and convocations, we celebrate the success of our students and their hopes for the future.

"Assessment at Syracuse University is also about hope.  It is not about quantitative measurements.  It is an ongoing reflection by the university community on the following questions:

• What are our hopes for our students?
• What are we doing to realize these hopes?
• How will we know our hopes for our students are being realized?
• How have we changed what we do based on observing our students?

" . . . we want to know with some assurance that our students are learning lessons of lasting value.  These lessons of lasting value are learned in many places, not just inside classrooms.  Recognizing this, assessment at SU considers what happens to students outside the classroom as well."

Listed below are links to the wide variety of assessment approaches and concepts that are in place or being explored at private colleges and universities.

Alverno College (Wisconsin)

• Alverno's Ability-based Curriculum
   
• Alverno’s Student Assessment as Learning Approach

Brenau University (Georgia)

• Assessment Web Site

Bucknell University: (Pennsylvania)

• Assessment Planning Group

Concordia College (Minnesota)

• Assessment Home Page
   
• Assessment Mini-Grant Program
   
• Assessment Handbook

Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)

• Evaluation & Research Home Page

Earlham College (Indiana)

• Assessment Home Page
   
• Senior Surveys (1997 - 2005)

Geneva College (Pennsylvania)

• Student Changes Survey Items Assessing Each Outcome

Meredith College (North Carolina)

• Office of Research, Planning, & Assessment

Mount Union College (Ohio)

• Teacher Education Assessment System

Oberlin College (Ohio)

• Office of Institutional Research

Pepperdine University (California)

• Assessment Office (Includes list of workshops and conferences on assessment nationally)

Seton Hall University (New Jersey)

• Methods used by academic departments in assessing graduate and undergraduate programs
   

Skidmore College (New York)

• Assessment at Skidmore

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

• Outcomes Assessment Page

Villanova University (Pennsylvania)

• Graduate Nursing Program Outcome Competencies
   
• Assessment Plans and Processes
   

Wake Forest University (North Carolina)

• A Case Study on the Institutional Dynamics and Climate for Student Assessment and Academic Innovation

Willamette University (Oregon)

• Institutional Research