http://www.ericae.net/ The ERIC Clearinghouse for Assessment gathers print sources on assessment, including research-based presentations, journal articles, and books. This site also includes the Test Locator, which allows faculty and researchers to search for testing instruments using key words.
http://www.ets.org/ The Educational Testing Services (ETS) website offers information about its higher education assessment instruments, including general education instruments, major field tests, and course evaluations.
http://www.act.org The ACT website provides information about its testing and placement instruments, including COMPASS and ASSET, as well as their research and consulting programs.
https://cae.org/# The Collegiate Learning Assessment is the tool Eastern has chosen for its assessment tool through the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA).
http://www.vsaanalytics.org The Voluntary System of Accountability is a voluntary initiative for 4-year public institutions in which Eastern participates.
http://www.aacu.org/ The Association of American Colleges and Universities offers information on general education and assessment as well as other topics concerning higher education.
https://www.hlcommission.org The Higher Learning Commission gives information on what accrediting teams will want. The Higher Learning Commission also gives information on its assessment levels.
https://www.chea.org The Council for Higher Education Accreditation offers information on assessment and accreditation, including a section on good practices.
https://www.nchems.org/ The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems provides information and services on assessment management capabilities.
http://www.nces.ed.gov The National Center for Education Statistics provides government-gathered statistics on American education. It also offers a college locator at this site to assist in finding web resources on 9,000 postsecondary institutions.
http://www.tandfonline.com Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education is a journal that focuses on these issues in postsecondary education. The most recent issues’ table of contents are available on the web.
http://www.acpa.nche.edu/commae The American College Personnel Association’s Commission IX:> Assessment for Student Learning focuses on using assessment data for student development programming. It also offers research grants for student affairs professionals.
http://www.airweb.org/ The Association of Institutional Research’s website includes links on many topics in higher education, including assessment. AIR offers a newsletter online as well as examples of ways in which to display data
http://www.caacentre.ac.uk/index.shtml This site provides information on computer-assisted assessment in higher education.
http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/apboyle/triads/ TRIADS is a joint project of the University of Liverpool, the University of Derby, and the Open University. Its focus is on learning outcomes assessment and the website offers ways to develop on-line assessments.
https://www.alverno.edu/Resources-for-Educators-Publications Alverno College serves as a national model for an ability-based curriculum.
http://www.jmu.edu/assessment/ James Madison University has received national recognition for its assessment program.
http://assessment.truman.edu Truman State University has been involved in assessing student outcomes for decades.
http://planning.ucsc.edu/irps/stratpln/assess.htm The University of California-Santa Cruz has a unique grading system where students earn letter grades and are also given narrative evaluations.
http://www.cod.edu/catalog/current/pdf/2019-2021-educational-opp.pdf College of DuPage has used student outcomes assessment to improve student learning.
http://oberlin.edu/instres/irhome/ Oberlin College has based its plan for assessing student outcomes on North Central Association’s five criteria.
https://www.utrgv.edu/curriculum-assessment/ The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley website offers a virtual library of its assessment and institutional research efforts
ASSESS-L is a listserv focusing on assessment in higher education.
The First-Year Assessment Listserv (FYA-L) focuses on evaluating students' experiences and success in the first year of college.
https://www.insightassessment.com Insight Assessment has tools for assessing problem solving abilities.
https://www.csuchico.edu/ge/assessment.shtml The Critical Thinking Assessment Project at Cal State-Chico offers instructional practices and assessment techniques on a wide-range of critical thinking abilities.
https://www.tntech.edu/cat/ Tennessee Tech offers a tool to assess critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
http://www.criticalthinking.org/ The Critical Thinking Community seeks to improve CT at all educational levels; this site offers research and assessment instruments.