Bibliography
Web Sites and Survey Sources
Exemplary Programs and Practices
Tools
Conferences

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

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.

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

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

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

Upcoming:

Upcoming conferences sponsored by the 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's conference on Undergraduate Research and Scholarship and the Mission of the Research University included several sessions devoted to assessment. Please see the Conference page: http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference/urconfschedule.htm for summaries of the sessions and links to copies of the presentations.

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