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Outcomes Assessment Resources

Resource People
Assessment Tools - The Sharing Site
Assessment Books, Periodicals and Reports- LLC Collection
Online Assessment Resources - General
Online Assessment Sites at Other Colleges

Resource People:
Direct assistance to faculty is available from:

• Matthew Greider, History Instructor  and Coordinator of Outcomes Assessment (x3510 and x5290)
• Kathleen Doehring, Nursing Instructor (x5452), specializing in helping with technical/vocational program assessment
• Linda Parrish, Mathematics Instructor (x5282), specializing in helping with transfer program assessment
• Student help. A part-time student assistant may be available to help faculty with clerical activities related to assessment.  Contact Nancy to arrange student assistance with your program assessment.

Let us help with your assessment plans and procedures.

Assessment Tools - The Sharing Site
The following evaluation forms, surveys, rubrics, etc. have been presented by Lake Land College faculty for sharing.

Field Experience Evaluation Forms: A number of faculty use SOE (supervised occupational expeience), internship, or clinical evaluations as a part of their program assessment. 

• Agriculture Division Employer Evaluation
• Child Care Field Experience Evaluation
• Dental Hygiene Presentation Evaluation
• Human Services Field Experience Evaluation
• John Deere Ag Sales Employer Evaluation
• John Deere Ag Tech Employer Evaluation
• Nursing-ADN Evaluation of Clinical Site by Student
• Nursing-LPN Evaluation of Clinical Site by Student
• Nursing-LPN Evaluation of Clinical Instructor by Student
• Office Technology Internship Evaluation
• Physical Therapy Employer Survey

Client/Patient Evaluation Forms:  A number of Lake Land College programs have labs or clinics in which clients or patients are served by students.  The following surveys are used to obtain information directly from clients/patients served by Lake Land students.

• Cosmetology Client Evaluation
• Massage Therapy Clinic Evaluation
• Physical Therapy Patient Survey

Graduate Surveys:  The following surveys are used by faculty to obtain feedback from program graduates. 

• Physical Therapy Graduate Survey
• Human Services Graduate Survey

Rubrics:  The following rubrics are used to measure student performance in various areas.

• Oral Presentation Rubric
• Problem-Solving Rubric-(Mathematics)

Other Tools: 

• Nursing-ADN Student Evaluation of Courses
• Nursing-Evaluation of Lab Experience by Student

Assessment Books, Periodicals and Reports at Lake Land College

Books, periodicals and reports are available in the Center for Technology and Professional Development at Lake Land College.  Click here for a complete list.

Online Assessment Resources - General:

Assessment Resources from the AAHE, American Association for Higher Education. Within the AAHE site is a valuable, categorized list of assessment-related links at http://www.aahe.org/assessment/web.htm
AAHE also presents its "9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning" which is referenced by the Illinois Board of Higher Education in its white paper on assessment.

Assessment Measures and Methods- Advice from NCA by Dr. Cecelia Lopez, North Central Association Commission on Institutions of Higher Education: Opportunities for Improvement: Advice from Consultant-Evaluators on Programs to Assess Student Learning, March 1996.

Assessment Resources from the Higher Learning Commission, A Commission of the North Central Association.   http://www.hlcommission.org/resources/assessment/index.html

Illinois Board of Higher Education - The Illinois Commitment, Goal Five Requirement: Assessment of Student Learning And Improving Program Quality http://www.ibhe.org/Academic Affairs/Conference/White Paper.pdf

Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) information -- http://www.iTransfer.org/-- View the IAI requirements to help guide goals for assessing general education and transfer programs.

1) Click iTransfer Gen. Ed., click any of the Gen. Ed. Core Requirements links (Communications, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, etc.), and click the definitions link to find definitions of each general education requirements, which can be used to create competencies.

2) From the iTransfer home page, click iTransfer Gen. Ed. and the Majors tab, scroll down to the "Majors that are currently available" drop-down menu, find your program major, select it and click submit. IAI has provided major descriptions from which goals can be pulled.

North Central Association Commission (NCA-CIHE) -- http://www.ncacihe.org/-- View guidelines set up by NCA for creating goals for programs, case studies, and assessment resources offered by other colleges that have been re-accredited.
     Assessment of Student Academic Achievement: Levels of
     Implementation -- http://www.ncacihe.org/resources/assessment/index.html

Online Assessment Sites at Other Colleges:

Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment (NC State University, University Planning & Analysis) -- http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm

A list of links about University Assessment Pages, General Resources, Agencies, Institutes and Organizations, Assessment Instruments and Techniques, Assessment Papers and Reports, Commercial Resources on Assessment, Benchmarking, and Software -- http://www.tamu.edu/marshome/assess/oabooks.html

Banta, Trudy and Catherine Palomba. Assessment Essentials. California: Josey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0-7879-4180-8.

Banta, Trudy et. al. Assessment in Practice: Putting Principles to Work on College Campuses. Callifornia: Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series, 1995, ISBN 0-7879-0134-2.

Halpern Diane F. Changing College Classrooms. California: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994, ISBN 1-5554-2643-3.

"Learner Outcomes: Some Web Resources and How to Find Out More" -- http://www.topsy.org/learneroutcomes.html -- Links to assessment implementation, general education competencies, accreditation outcomes, and divisional competencies.

"Unit Outcomes Assessment Plans" U of I program plans -- http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/assessment/plans.html -- Program Plans that are sorted according to College.

College of DuPage Program -- http://www.cod.edu/outcomes/index.htm#DivisionProgram 

Sinclair Community College Academic Divisions page -- http://www.sinclair.edu/divisions/ -- Visit each division to view program outcomes.
     Sinclair Engineering Outcomes -- http://www.erinet.com/dwolf/pages/eit/tpesup.htm

Erie Community College Academic Programs -- http://www.ecc.edu/studentlife/student_acad.php3 -- View program competencies.

Columbia State University Chemistry Outcomes -- http://enroll.colstate.edu/cat98/chem.html

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Student Assessment Resources -- http://www.uncc.edu/stuaffairs/sar/ -- View the Internet and literature resources pages.

"University Planning & Analysis: Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment" at NC State -- http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/survey/resource.htm#area -- Collection of links with section on how to develop a campus or departmental assessment process.

Manchester Community Colleges -- http://www.mcc.commnet.edu/irp/outcomes.htm -- 
PDF listing outcomes by major (need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download and read outcomes).

Academic Assessment at North Virginia Community College -- http://www.nv.cc.va.us/assessment/index.htm.

Parkland College Academic Assessment -- http://www.parkland.cc.il.us/aac/programs/natsci/index.htm

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville "Undergraduate Assessment & Program Review Undergraduate Research Academy" -- http://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/index.html -- View SIU-E's rationale for assessment. Quote from the site: "Assessment is the monitoring of student learning; it is not the evaluation of professors' teaching."

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