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Lehman, Regina M.; Rogers-Cooper, Justin – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
One of the many new directions to explore in ePortfolio practice is the relationship between ePortfolio as a classroom pedagogy and its potential to advance general education outcomes assessment. This direction is especially urgent in relation to the increasing demands by employers for competency-focused, higher-order skills, as well as demands by…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), College Outcomes Assessment
Finney, Sara J.; Wells, Jennifer B.; Henning, Gavin W. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
On their own, student learning and development outcomes assessment data have limited utility for improving programming. We believe outcomes data should not be collected until two fundamental questions can be answered: "Why should this programming result in the desired outcome?" (i.e., program theory) and "Was the intended…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, College Outcomes Assessment, Behavioral Objectives
Singer-Freeman, Karen; Robinson, Christine – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
A number of national and international organizations have compiled lists of grand challenges to unify the efforts of scholars and practitioners in a field. Unified efforts increase the possibility of creating meaningful and lasting progress. In this paper we share ten grand challenges that were identified through an examination of the assessment…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Innovation, Budgeting
Montenegro, Erick; Jankowski, Natasha A. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
Entering into a new decade with an even more diversified college student population will not only require more assessment models involving students but also deeper professional development of institutional representatives key to student learning. Reflecting upon the conversations over the last three years around culturally responsive assessment…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Relevance, Student Evaluation, College Outcomes Assessment
Hong, Rebecca C.; Moloney, Kara – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
The United States is in a period of reckoning from which institutions of higher education are not exempt. Rather, we exist at the intersection of the chaos wrought by the novel coronavirus and the spread of outrage about systemic racism beyond Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC) communities. The resulting almost universal sense of loss…
Descriptors: College Students, College Outcomes Assessment, Systems Approach, Student Evaluation
Eggleston, Tami – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
In October of 2019, I presented at the IUPUI Assessment Institute in Indianapolis on the topic of academic program review. While almost every campus conducts program reviews, the definition, purpose, structure, and integration of assessment in program reviews is not universally understood, accepted, or implemented. This paper summarizes essential…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, College Programs, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Improvement
Eggleston, Tami – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
"Program Review and Assessment for Continuous Improvement: Asking the Right Questions. Occasional Paper No. 48" summarizes essential questions and discussions campuses should have regarding academic program reviews and the integration of assessment into such reviews. This document contains the following Appendices related to that paper:…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, College Programs, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Improvement
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Baker, Gianina R. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
This Occasional Paper outlines lessons learned about mapping and assessing learning in student affairs and student employment. Over the last three years, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) assisted institutions developing Comprehensive Learner Records and scaling high-impact practices. In each of these initiatives,…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Personnel Services, Student Employment, College Students
Eubanks, David; Gliem, David – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2015
Technology can change higher education by empowering students to make an impact on the world as undergraduates. Done systematically, this would allow institutions to close the credibility gap with an increasingly dubious public. Authentic student achievements that are addressed to a "real world" audience can lead to richly detailed…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Practices, Program Implementation, Assignments
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Ikenberry, Stanley O.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D.; Shenoy, Gloria F.; Baker, Gianina R. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2012
The Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) is a vehicle for public four-year universities to report comparable information about the undergraduate student experience via the College Portrait, a common web reporting template. The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) was asked by the VSA to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Access to Information, Disclosure, Public Colleges
Baker, Gianina R.; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Provezis, Staci; Kinzie, Jillian – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2012
Most institutions are collecting evidence of student learning, but it is not clear how these results are being used to improve student outcomes. To learn more about what colleges and universities are doing to use assessment data productively to inform and strengthen undergraduate education, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Test Results
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Provezis, Staci J. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2011
This publication presents a series of studies that the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) staff, led by Staci Provezis and Natasha Jankowski, conducted over the past couple of years. It may be the most comprehensive examination yet of institutional transparency in terms of student learning outcomes and the assessment…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Evaluation, College Students, Access to Information
Kinzie, Jillian – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2010
The assessment of student learning outcomes is of keen interest to the federal government, accrediting bodies, and education associations and policymakers. Colleges and universities have been under increased pressured to demonstrate accountability for student learning and be more transparent about dimensions of educational quality. Although…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Evaluation, College Students, Leadership