Assessment Resource Page
The intention of this site is to provide a resource to departments as they develop their departmental assessment plans. Links are provided to departmental assessment plans that currently exist and are publicly available on the WWW. Send comments, additions and other recommendations for this site to bmoskal@mines.edu.

A Place to Begin 
  Assessment Matrix This matrix has been developed to help engineering faculty develop comprehensive program assessment plans for their departments. 

ABET is the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Many of the current concerns with regard to departmental assessment are in reaction to requirements that ABET has set forth for accreditation. 

Glossary of Terms. Provides an easy to use dictionary of assessment and evaluation terms. 

Center for Engineering Education.  CEE offers the CSM campus community expertise on a variety of educational issues, including assessment and evaluation. 

The Gateway Engineering Education Coalition. A Collaborative effort of 7 institutions that focuses on: assessment, professional development, underrepresented populations, instructional technologies, linking and sharing and curriculum and development and implementation. 

 

Campus Efforts:
Development of Goals
  Mathematical and Computer Science Department Goals and Objectives
     
Examples of Completed Assessment Matrices

Physics Departments Assessment Plan
 

  Mathematical and Computer Sciences Departmental Assessment Plan
Examples of Assessment Use 
 
  Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department- How the MACS department has used assessment information for improvement purposes.
Examples of CSM Assessment Instruments 
  Surveys
   
Graduate Survey (MACS) 
Undergraduate Survey (MACS) 
Rubrics 
Final Report Rubric (EPICS)

 
Classroom Assessment
  Office of Teaching Effectiveness -A summary of a 1998 forum on classroom assessment techniques. 

 
 

Off Campus Efforts:

Institution Assessment Plans
  University of Colorado at Boulder An index of information concerning the undergraduate outcomes based assessment plan that has been implemented at CU, Boulder. 
Departmental Assessment 
   Succeed.  Faculty from these eight colleges of engineering have developed innovations in key focus areas such as guide specifically designed to assist Engineering schools in prepare for ABET 2000. 

Synthesis Assessment. Reflects the efforts of eight institutions with a focus on new approaches to assessing undergraduate engineering education. 

Western Carolina University Assessment Assistance. On-line links for developing program assessments.
 

Classroom Assessment 
  Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide. This web site has been designed by and for college and university instructors in the sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology disciplines. Its purpose is to offer a readily accessible, up-to-date resource of classroom-tested assessment tools. 

Classroom Assessment Techniques. This site, developed by Southern Illinois University, provides links to descriptions and examples of classroom assessment instruments. 

 

Associations and Research
  American Association of Higher Education: Assessment Forum. A national network designed to support stakeholders in the assessment of higher education. 

University of California, Berkeley. A list of assessment articles produced by the Berkeley Evaluation and Research Center.

Test Reviews on line.  A searchable database for test reviews. 

Educational Testing Service Search.  A searchable database of educational tests.

ERIC Clearinghouse. A searchable database on research in education. 

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation.  An on-line journal on assessment and evaluation. 
 



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