Language Centre

Assessments

Washington State University

• Program-level Outcomes Assessment is explained in terms of its purposes and processes. at Washington State University
  https://my.wsu.edu/portal/page?_pageid=177,268268&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

• Toolkit - they provide information on commonly used tools that university uses for assessment, i.e. Tests, Surveys and Portfolio
  http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/ToolKit.html
• The NILOA 2009 national survey report, "More Than You Think, Less Than We Need: Assessment in Higher Education"
  http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/NationalSurvey.html

Association of American Colleges and Universities

• VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education)
  Fifteen institutional-level draft rubrics were created through the VALUE project. Each of them contains the most common and broadly shared criteria or core characteristics for judging the quality of student work.
  http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/index_p.cfm?CFID=36459341&CFTOKEN=67099616
• Critical Thinking Assessment provides examples and further resources on assessing critical thinking
  http://www.aacu.org/resources/assessment/critical_thinking.cfm

Assessment Resource Center, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• The useful links page is a resource hub containing articles and examples of assessments shown by skill, subject or type of assessment.
  http://www.polyu.edu.hk/assessment/arc/links/reference_e_criteria.htm

ASKe at Oxford Brookes University

• ASKe is the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning being recognized for good practice based on pedagogic research into aspects of assessment carried out by staff in the Business School and the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.
  http://www.brookes.ac.uk/aske/

Tools

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Program and Courses Outcomes System (PACOS) is a free web-based system designed for departments to use as a centralized web system, which manages the course and program information in regard of OBE, e.g. ILOs and mapping.
  http://www.cse.ust.hk/obe_software/

Outcomes-based Assessment and Reporting in Language Learning Programmes: a Review of the Issues

/files/public/obeassessment_reporting_lang_learning_0.pdf

This paper discusses how to alleviate the possible problems of conducting outcome-based assessment on language courses.

From Theory to Practice: Classroom Application of Outcome-based Education

http://www.ericdigests.org/1995-2/outcome.htm

This digest gives an overview about how to implement outcome-based approach in language classrooms.

Designing Online Language Courses from an Analysis of Outcomes and Objectives in Classroom Instruction

http://naweb.unb.ca/proceedings/2002/P9Mcintosh.htm

This article discusses how to design successful online language courses by defining learning outcomes and aligning them with teaching and learning activities.