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Assessment Resources

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Assessment Updates

• September 2024 Assessment Update
• March 2024 Assessment Update
• January 2024 Assessment Update
• February 2023 Assessment Update

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Assessment Calendar

July 1	Academic departments submit to their divisional dean’s office the artifacts collected in the previous academic year for the assessment of Anchor Plan Outcomes 1 and 4.
September 15	Academic departments provide Frost Center with the names and emails of seniors who need to complete the Critical Thinking Assessment during the Fall Semester.
October 1	Assessment reports are due from curricular and cocurricular programs for each program outcome that was assessed in the previous academic year.
December 1	Assessment reports are due from the General Education Council for each Anchor Plan Learning Outcome that was assessed in the previous academic year.
December 1	Assessment reports are due from the Assessment Committee for each Common Learning Outcome that was assessed in the previous academic year.
February 1	Academic departments provide Frost Center with the names and emails of seniors who need to complete the Critical Thinking Assessment during the Spring Semester.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Assessment Portal

The Assessment Portal is a tool to gather and share Â鶹ÊÓƵ assessment results and improvements made.  Assessment reports are entered annually (no later than October 1) on assessment of program, general education, cocurricular, and common learning outcomes from the previous academic year.  

• View or download step-by-step instructions.
• See these examples of curricular and cocurricular assessment reports.

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

curates an expansive set of resources for assessment of student learning in higher education, including for specific stakeholder groups and their assessment foci.

Good places for you to begin learning about assessment of student learning are: 

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  Open-access resources for those just beginning their journey into assessment of student learning
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  NILOA Assessment Brief, Pat Hutchings, January 2019

AAC&U VALUE Rubrics

AAC&U VALUE  (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) rubrics for direct assessment of student work are available for the following categories of learning outcomes.

Hope is an AAC&U member institution and you can click on any of the links below to create an account and download VALUE rubrics at no cost.

If you use one of these assessment tools, please review .

Intellectual and Practical Skills

 Personal and Social Responsibility

 Integrative and Applied Learning

Reprinted with permission from "VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education." Copyright 2018 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities .

Writing Student Learning Outcomes

Assessment begins with student learning outcomes, followed by the collection, review and use of information about those outcomes to improve student learning.  

At Hope College we have student learning outcomes for courses, academic programs, cocurricular programs, general education (Anchor Plan) and common learning outcomes.  

±á´Ç±è±ð’s Guide to Writing Student Learning Outcomes is a tool to develop outcomes that support student learning, can be measured, and inform continuous improvement. Bloom’s Taxonomy Resources from Utica College and Writing Student Learning Outcomes from Texas A&M are additional resources to support the development of student learning outcomes.