Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)

• Hints, tips, techniques, and examples from:

  • Honolulu College

  • Illinois State University

  • Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

• Course-based Review and Assessment (University of Massachusetts Amherst, *.pdf document).

• FAST (Free Assessment Summary Tool), from Bruce Ravelli, Mt. Royal College.

  • Web survey for student feedback, for classroom assessment during the course of a term.

  • Fully anonymous, no way to tell who has submitted an evaluation, or how often. Not intended as an an end-of-term course evaluation whose data become part of the salary, promotion, and tenure process.

• Internet Resources for Classroom Assessment Techniques,

• Introduction to Classroom Assessment Techniques from Penn State University's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence.

• Online version of the Teaching Goals Inventory, from the University of Iowa's Center for Teaching.

  • See Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo & Cross, 1988, 1993, Jossey-Bass) for details on the TGI. The online version was created with the authors' permission.

• Technology Applied to Classroom Assessment, from the National Teaching and Learning Forum.

• • Links to online resources about classroom assessment and technology-enhanced classroom assessment.

  University of Arizona Learning Centered Course Development

College Results Online

• Searchable database of graduation rates for four-year colleges and universities. From the Education Trust; based on NCES data.

• 4, 5, and 6-year rates, plus trends over time and freshman-to-sophomore retention, outbound transfer rates, and gender/ethnicity breakdowns.

• User-selected group of institutions or individual institution + database-generated comparison group based on institutional characteristics.

Collegiate Learning Assessment Project

• Ongoing project to develop an assessment of institutional value-added for general education skills & abilities.

• From the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a subsidiary of the RAND Corporation.

• Nationally-normed survey of students' exposure to good practices in undergraduate education.

• Information about the project and the survey.

• *.pdf demonstration versions of the survey.

• Results: summaries and publications.

• The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a student self-reported survey project for four-year institutions.

Many thanks to the managers of the North Carolina State Assessment Webpage. http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm