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Outcomes Assessment

• Latest reports from each academic unit
• Methods used in recent undergrad outcomes assessment
• Assessment for CU-Boulder Units: A Brief Guide
• Suggested assessment checklist for departments
• Columns from the journal Assessment Update that describe and link to online resources for higher-education assessment.
• More assessment information and resources
• State and national standardized tests - performance of students graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder, brief summary, May 2008

Academic Program Review Procedures

• New PRP document, September 9, 2003
• Section of PRP pertaining to required outcomes assessment
• Assessment reporting timetable

Recent activity (November 2000 - )

• October 2008 Regent resolution on testing (PDF)
• Status report to the campus and HLC, March 2003 (Word document)
• HLC response to the March 2003 status report (PDF)
• Appendix to the March 2003 HLC report, with detailed instructions for academic units (Word document)
• Charge to the Assessment Oversight Committee
  • Assessment Oversight Committee members
  • Notes from Assessment Oversight Committee meetings
    • 12/11/2008
    • 11/17/2008
    • 07/03/2008
    • 04/22/2008
    • 03/19/2008
    • 02/25/2008 - Notes
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    • 01/23/2008
    • 08/15/2007
    • 03/04/2005
    • 03/11/2004
    • 11/03/2003
    • 3/10/2003
    • 1/29/2003
    • 10/21/2002
    • 4/11/2002
    • 2/15/2002
    • 9/24/2001
    • 3/22/2001
    • 12/11/2000
  • Notes from AOC subcommittee on graduate-level assessment
    • 10/19/01
• NCA suggestions and requirements for assessment at CU-Boulder
• Graduation-year assessment plan approved by CCHE November 2000
  (no longer part of QIS or required by CCHE)
  • Requirements as stated in CCHE Quality Indicator System, passed November 1999
  • History of undergraduate outcomes assessment at CU-Boulder
  • Why change is needed
  • Plan to reinvigorate assessment in the major discipline
  • Use of standardized tests
• A New Measure of Student Motivation in Assessment Activities
• Download the Graduation-year assessment plan as a Word document

Historical and ongoing assessment activities

• Overview
• The history of CU-Boulder's outcomes assessment program
• Who does what, when
• Goals for undergraduates
• Assessment methods used by academic departments and programs
• Assessment methods across academic units
• What we've learned about doing outcomes assessment
• What we've learned about student learning and satisfaction
• What we've learned about students' activities after they graduate
• What we've learned about curricular changes resulting from assessment
• What's next

Table: assessment methods used by individual academic units

For more information, contact:

Perry Sailor, PhD
Planning, Budget, and Analysis
Campus Box 15
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-015
(303) 492-2514
FAX 492-0996
email: ir@Colorado.EDU

Higher education outcomes assessment resources on the Web