Student Affairs Office

Assessments

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/

e-Portfolios: A Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Faculty

/files/public/e-portfolios_collaboration.pdf

This article presents how e-Portfolios help achieve cocurricular learning outcomes. Experiences of colleges and university are also discussed.

e-Portfolios: Concepts, Designs, and integration Within Student Affairs

/files/public/e-portfolios_integration_student_affairs.pdf

This article discusses how e-Portfolios support an array of higher education applications, from reflective-based e-learning to assessment of learner outcome.

Council for Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS)

http://www.cas.edu/

The Council is the pre-eminent force for promoting standards in student affairs, student services, and student development programs.

NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education NASPA – Student Affairs

http://www.naspa.org/

Administrators in Higher Education is the leading voice for student affairs administration, policy, and practice, and affirms the commitment of the student affairs profession to educating the whole student and integrating student life and learning.