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Adhikari, A. and Nolan, D. (2002). "But What Good Came of It at Last? How to Assess the Value of Undergraduate Research." Notices of the AMS (American Mathematical Society) 49 (10), 1252-1257.
http://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-nolan.pdf

Angelo, T.A., and Cross, K.P. (1993). Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, Second Edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (Journal)
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/02602938.html

Bauer, K.W. and Bennett, J.S. (2003). Alumni perceptions used to assess undergraduate research experience. Journal of Higher Education, 74 (2), 210-230.

Baxter Magolda, M.B. (2002) Helping Students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey. About Campus, 6 (6), 2-9. Adapted from M. B. Baxter Magolda, (2001), Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Baxter Magolda, M.B. (2001) A Constructivist Revision of the Measure of Epistemological Reflection. Journal of College Student Development 42 (6), 1-15.
http://unixgen1.mcs.muohio.edu/~magoldpm/PDF/MER_OVERVIEW.PDF

Boylan, Myles. UVP Meeting Session: Establishing a Culture of Evidence; Assessment of Improved STEM Literacy: new findings and tools

http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/UVPPowerPoints/Assessment_of_Improved_STEM_Literacy.pdf

Breen, R and Lindsay, R (1999). Academic research and student motivation, Studies In Higher Education, 24 (1), 75-93.

Brown, Robert W. Breakout Session: Approaching Teaching As We Approach Research: Establishing Goals, Collecting the Evidence, and Measuring Achievement http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/robertbrown/presentation.pdf

Burnley, P.C., Evans, W. and Jarrett, J.S. (2002). A Comparison of Approaches and Instruments for Evaluation Geological Sciences Reserach Experiences Program. Journal of Geoscience Education, 50 (1), 15-24.

Diamond, R. (1998). Designing and Assessing Course Curricula: A Practical Guide. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Doyle, M. ed. (2000). Academic Excellence: The Role of Research in the Physical Sciences at Undergraduate Institutions. Tucson, AZ: Research Corporation.

Doyle, M. ed. (2001). Academic Excellence: A Study on the Role of Research in the Natural Sciences at Undergraduate Institutions. Tucson, AZ: Research Corporation.

Greenhoot, Andrea. UVP Meeting Session: Evaluating the Cognitive Apprenticeship Model for Improving Undergraduate Student's Critical Thinking and Writing Skills

http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/UVPPowerPoints/Evaluating_the_Cognitive_Apprenticeship_Model_for_Improving_Undergraduate_Students_Critical_Thinking_and_Writing_Skills.pdf

Hakel, Milton. "Experimental and Data-Intensive Social Sciences, Related Areas within Psychology and Management," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm

Hathaway, R.S. et al. The Relationship of Undergraduate Research Participation to Graduate and Professional Education Pursuit: An Empirical Study. Journal of College Student Development, 43 (5) pp. 614-631.

Jenkins, A., Blackman, T., Lindsay, R. and Paton-Saltzberg, R. (1998). Teaching and Research: Student Perspectives and Policy Implications. Studies in Higher Education, 23 (2), 127-141.

Leskes, Andrea. (2002). Beyond Confusion: An Assessment Glossary. Peer Review (Association of American Colleges and Universities), 4 (2-3).
http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp02/pr-sp02reality.cfm

Lindsay, R., Breen, R. and Jenkins, A. (2002). Academic Research and Teaching Quality: The Views of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students, Studies in Higher Education, 27 (3), 309-327.

Nagda, B.A., Gregerman, S.R., Jonides, J., von Hippel, W., and Lerner, J.S. (1998). Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Partnerships Affect Student Retention. The Review of Higher Education, 22 (1), pp. 55-72. http://www.undergraduate.research.umich.edu/homeassessment.html

Primary Research Group. The Survey of Assessment Practices in Higher Education. http://www.PrimaryResearch.com

Report of the VCCS Task Force on Assessing Core Competencies (2002): http://www.vccs.edu/competencies/taskforcereport.pdf

Reynolds, Julie. UVP Meeting Session: DukeTAP Duke University Thesis Assessment Protocol

http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/UVPPowerPoints/DukeTAP.pdf

Schilling, Karen M. and Karl L. Schilling. (1998). Proclaiming and Sustaining Excellence: Assessment as a Faculty Role. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report 26 (3). Washington, DC: The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
Online Summary: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1878380834.html

Thompson, Robert J. UVP Meeting Session: Bringing the Culture of Experimentation and Evidence to Teaching and Learning: Challenges, Issues, and Approaches

http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/UVPPowerPoints/Bringing_the_Culture_of_Experimentation_and_Evidence_to_Teaching_and_Learning.pdf

Ward, C., Bennett, J.S., and Bauer, K. Content Analysis of Undergraduate Research Student Evaluations. Unpublished report. http://www.udel.edu/RAIRE/Content.pdf

Zamorski, B. (2000). Research-led Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Norwich: UEA.

Zamorski, B. (2003). Research-led Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study, Teaching in Higher Education, 7 (4), 411-427.

Zydney, A., Bennett, J.S., Shahid, A., and Bauer, K. (2002). Impact of Undergraduate Research Experience in Engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 19 (2), 151- 157.

Zydney, A., Bennett, J.S., Shahid, A., and Bauer, K. (2002). Faculty Perspectives Regarding the Undergraduate Research Experience in Science and Engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 19 (3), 291-297.

 

 
  Web Sites and Survey Sources  
 

ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology): http://www.abet.org

The American Physiological Society, Planning an Effective Program Evaluation: http://www.the-aps.org/education/promote/promote.html

Data Audit and Analysis Toolkit, sponsored by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) and the Policy Center on the First Year of College: Materials, resources, and guidelines designed to assist institutions in local data source compilation, data assembly, and data analysis procedures: http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/dataaudit/

ERIC Clearinghouse for Assessment and Evaluation: http://ericae.net/

Electronic portfolio, The University of British Colombia’s: Web site with“how-to” information and current e-portfolio projects, events, and resources. https://www.elearning.ubc.ca/home/index.cfm

First-Year Assessment Listserv (FYA-list) http://listserv.sc.edu/archives/fya-list.html sponsored by the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

First-Year Experience Assessment Resources compiled by the University of South Carolina’s National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition are at http://www.sc.edu/fye/resources/assessment/index.html

Free Assessment Summary Tool (FAST): An anonymous online survey tool that automatically summarizes students’ impressions of a course and/or teacher and supplies the data directly to the teacher. http://www.getfast.ca/

Georgia State University offers a forum for sharing comments, ideas, news, links and information about e-portfolios: http://anvil.gsu.edu/eportfolio/

Learn how to create your own electronic portfolio at http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/howto/index.html

National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)

http://www.nchems.org/

 

North Carolina State University, Assessing General Education:

http://www.ncsu.edu/assessment/ger/ger.htm

Regis University, Portfolio Project: Web site that lists several e-Portfolio commercial software options and examples of universities using the programs as well as descriptions and prices of the software. http://academic.regis.edu/LAAP/eportfolio/software.htm

University of California at Irvine, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program: http://www.urop.uci.edu

University of California, Berkeley, Leadership Development Program (LDP), E-Portfolio report is available at http://bearlink.berkeley.edu/ePortfolio/index.html

University of Delaware
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program: http://www.urp.udel.edu/
RAIRE-funded Assessment Studies: http://www.udel.edu/RAIRE/

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Guide to Program-Based Review and Assessment:
http://www.umass.edu/oapa/assessment/publications/online_handbooks/program_based.pdf

University of Michigan, Integrating Research and Undergraduate Learning, http://www.undergraduate.research.umich.edu/homeassessment.html

Survey Sources:

American College Testing Program (ACT): http://www.act.org/ess/postsec.html
College Outcomes Measures Program
Student Opinion Survey

Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) at the University of Oklahoma: http://www.ou.edu/csrde/index.html

Educational Testing Service (ETS): http://www.ets.org

National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) Sourcebook on Assessment: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000195

National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty: http://www.nces.ed.gov/surveys/nsopf/

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE): http://www.indiana.edu/~nsse/

University of California at Los Angeles, Higher Education Research Institute (HERI):
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html

 

 
  Exemplary Programs and Practices  
 

E-portfolio Project, Bowling Green State University used by the Rhetoric program as part of its assessment effort. http://www.bgsu.edy/departments/english/Portfolio/portfolio.html


 

 

  Tools  
 

Assessing Student Achievement in General Education: Assessment Update Collections
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787995738.html

California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST):
http://www.insightassessment.com/test-cctst.html

College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ): http://www.indiana.edu/~cseq/

Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP): http://www.act.org/caap/

Teaching Goals Inventory: Designed to help teachers establish teaching goals in individual courses and assess how well they are achieving them. http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi/background.html

Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal: http://www.psychcorpcenter.com/content/wgcts.htm

 

 
  Conferences  
 

National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition:
http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/upcoming.html

Past Events :

Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment: Aspiring to Excellence
July 24-26, 2005, Asheville, NC
Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment: Discerning Quality in the First Year of College
July 18-20, 2004, Asheville, NC
Sponsored by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Co-sponsored by the Policy Center on the First Year of College
http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/summer/index.html

North Carolina State University
2003 Undergraduate Assessment Symposium: April 7-8, 2003, Raleigh, NC:
2004 Undergraduate Assessment Symposium: April 16-17, 2004, Cary, NC:
http://www.ncsu.edu/undergrad_affairs/assessment/files/resources/symposium.htm

The Reinvention Center Conference Proceedings, 2008.
Plenary Session: Accountability, Assessment and the Public Policy Environment

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