Assessment Tools
Books and Journals with a Scholarly Approach

All are available in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education

Assessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Assessment in Practice: Putting Principles to Work on Campus

Building a Scholarship of Assessment

The Art & Science of Classroom Assessment: The Missing Part of Pedagogy

Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment

How People Learn: Mind, Experience, and School (On-line Book)

Knowing What Students Know: The Art and Science of Assessment (On-line Book)

Assessment Update (Journal)

Assessment Journal (On-line Journal)

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (Journal)

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy, and Practice (Journal)

New Directions for Community Colleges No. 126: Developing and Implementing Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

New Directions for Community Colleges No. 88: Assessment and Testing: Myths and Realities

New Directions for Community Colleges No. 59: Issues in Student Assessment

New Directions for Community Colleges No. 18: Assessing Student Academic and Social Progress

New Directions for Higher Education No. 113: How Accreditation Influences Assessment

New Directions for Higher Education No. 100: The Campus-Level Impact of Assessment: Progress, Problems, and Possibilities

New Directions for Higher Education No. 91: Assessing Performance in an Age of Accountability: Case Studies

New Directions for Higher Education No. 80: Assessment and Curricular Reform

New Directions for Higher Education No. 67: Achieving Assessment Goals Using Evaluation Techniques

New Directions for Higher Education No. 59: Student Outcomes Assessment: What Institutions Stand to Gain

New Directions for Institutional Research No. 68: Assessing Academic Climates and Cultures

New Directions for Institutional Research No. 65: The Effect of Assessment on Minority Student Participation

New Directions for Institutional Research No. 59: Implementing Outcomes Assessment: Promise and Perils

New Directions for Institutional Research No. 47: Assessing Educational Outcomes

New Directions for Institutional Research No. 29: Institutional Assessment for Self-Improvement

New Directions for Student Services No. 85: Student Affairs Research, Evaluation, and Assessment