The Assessment Leadership Institute (ALI) features:
- interactive, hands-on sessions
- one-on-one assistance from learning outcome assessment experts on campus
- insights from professionals with extensive experience designing and implementing assessment methods
- opportunities to build support networks with colleagues and learn from each others’ successes and challenges
- assistance in creating a feasible, sustainable assessment plan for a program (or institution-level effort)
Selected institute materials:
- Student learning outcomes and curriculum map
- Collect Student Learning Evidence
- Direct vs. indirect evidence of student learning
- Multiple-choice test development and analysis (Handout, Excel exercise file)
- Task/Performance-based instruments: Assignment Design and Scaffolding
- Capstone and Signature Assignment (with facilitation script)
- Portfolios (with facilitation techniques on dot voting and flipchart note-taking)
- Data Collection and Evaluation
- Sampling
- Rubric Adaptation (with facilitation script)
- Standard Setting (Handout, Excel exercise file 1, Excel exercise file 2)
- Data analysis and reporting
- Reliability (handout with facilitation technique on typology development, Excel exercise file 1, Excel exercise file 2)
- Validity
- Technology tools to collect and analyze data (Handout, Excel exercise file)
- Data analysis, reporting, and presentation
- Use of results
- Program level assessment project planning
- Engaging Faculty
- Scholarship in Learning Assessment
- Supplemental Materials