Library

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/

Using OBE in the Planning and Teaching of New Information Technologies

http://www.libraryinstruction.com/obe.html

This article discusses how to design an outcome-based library instruction program.

New York State Library – Outcome-based Evaluation

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/obe/index.html

The New York State Library has been working with The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) since 2003 to bring outcome-based evaluation training to its library systems and their member libraries. This website includes resources like exemplars, activities and training plans.

Institute of Museum and Library Services – Outcome-based Evaluation

http://www.imls.gov/applicants/basics.aspx

This provides some ideas about how to implement and design outcome-based programs for library users.

An Example of Library for Outcome-based Planning and Evaluation

http://www.shapingoutcomes.org/course/overview/a6l1.htm

This webpage showcases how to integrate outcome-based planning and evaluation in a library.

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/index.cfm

This article discusses how to design an outcome-based library instruction program.