A scoring tool that explicitly represents the performance expectations for an assignment or piece of work.
What is a rubric?
100
The leading association for the advancement, health, and sustainability of the student affairs profession, comprised of 14,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries and 8 US territories.
What is NASPA?
100
A collection of student work or artifacts that can be used to evaluate a student's knowledge, skills and growth.
What is a portfolio?
100
A psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires.
What is a Likert scale?
100
Articulate mission, goals and outcomes.
What do we intend to do?
200
Administering an assessment tool, such as a survey, and analyzing data that indicate the need for change in knowledge, attitude, or behaviors.
What is a needs assessment?
200
Adjunct Professor of Education Policy at the University of Illinois, Director of National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, author of "High Impact Educational Practices".
Who is George Kuh?
200
Monitoring who uses our programs, services and facilities, for example: raw numbers, frequency, age, class standing, race, residence.
What is tracking?
200
1. Condition under which the behavior is to occur.
2. Behavior must be observable and measurable.
3. Behavior must be evaluated against specific criteria.
What are the criteria of effective learning outcomes?
200
Implement methods to deliver outcomes.
How do we intend to do it?
300
Statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners have achieved, and can reliably demonstrate at the end of a course or program.
What are learning outcomes?
300
Having spent the bulk of his career in areas of assessment, instructional design, development and higher education policy, he most recently became the inaugural dean for the School of Arts, Sciences and Education at D'Youville College.
Who is Jason Adsit?
300
Identifying needs of our students and clientele, for example student-perceived, research-supported, and institutionally expected.
What is a needs assessment?
300
Used in more than 600 campuses in North America, this 30 minute online assessment allows users to gain insight into how to use their talents to achieve academic success, explore careers and in leadership development.
What is StrengthsQuest?
300
Identifying methods to gather evidence.
How will we measure the outcomes?
400
Graphical representation that can be used to reveal how students organize their knowledge about a concept or process.
What is a concept map?
400
Associate Professor, Chair of the Educational Leadership Program, Director of the Warner Center Division of Research and Evaluation at the University of Rochester.
Who is Andrew Wahl?
400
Measuring the level of student and clientele satisfaction with our programs, services and facilities.
What is a satisfaction assessment?
400
Collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about first-year and senior students' participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development.
What is NSSE - National Survey of Student Engagement?
400
Interpret evidence.
What do the results mean?
500
A set of quantifiable measures that a company or industry uses to gauge or compare performance in terms of meeting their strategic and operational goals.
What are KPIs?
500
Currently a professor of higher education at Indiana University Purdue and the founding editor of Assessment Update, a bi-monthly periodical published since 1989.
Who is Trudy W. Banta?
500
Measuring the impact that our services, programs and facilities have on students' learning, development and student success.
What is outcomes assessment?
500
The only specialized, comprehensive assessment platform and service provider that combines data collection, reporting, organization, and campus-wide integration.
What is Campus Labs (formerly StudentVoice)?
500
Use evidence to evaluate effectiveness.
How can we use this information to improve what we do?