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Hutchings, Pat; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Ewell, Peter T. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2014
The Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) first released by Lumina Foundation in 2011 and revised in 2014 sets forth a vision of what students should know and be able to do at the associate, bachelor's, and master's levels. It also carries an important message about assessment. Unlike the popular model of assessment as a sampling of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Degree Requirements, Assignments
Fulcher, Keston H.; Good, Megan R.; Coleman, Chris M.; Smith, Kristen L. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2014
Assessing learning does not by itself result in increased student accomplishment, much like a pig never fattened up because it was weighed. Indeed, recent research shows that while institutions are more regularly engaging in assessment, they have little to show in the way of stronger student performance. This paper clarifies how assessment results…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Utilization, College Students
Cooper, Tammi; Terrell, Trent – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2013
Assessment activities have proliferated over the last decade at institutions of higher education. While assessment is useful for institutional improvement, this proliferation has in part been due to greater pressures from regional accreditors on institutions to meet assessment requirements. These higher expectations have led to new expenditures on…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Colleges, Accreditation (Institutions), Expenditures
Ewell, Peter T. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2013
In January 2011, the Lumina Foundation published its Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) to challenge faculty and academic leaders in the U.S. to think deeply and concretely about aligning expectations for student learning outcomes across higher education. Since then, the DQP has kindled extensive discussions about what the postsecondary degrees…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Outcomes of Education, Mastery Learning, Colleges
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
Ewell, Peter; Paulson, Karen; Kinzie, Jillian – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2011
Assessing the quality of undergraduate student learning continues to be a priority in U.S. postsecondary education. Although variations in outcome assessment practices have long been suspected, they have not been systematically documented. To follow up the 2009 National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) report on institutional…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Deans, Program Effectiveness, Institutional Evaluation
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
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