General Resources

How to Write Learning Outcomes

Define Learning Goals and Objectives (AACSB)
Assessment Resource Center from the Association to Advance Colleges and Schools of Business. This set of instructions from AACSB about crafting learning outcomes uses examples from the discipline of business administration, but it may be reapplied to other fields.
http://www.aacsb.edu/resource_centers/assessment/ov-process-define.asp

Program-Based Review and Assessment: Defining Goals and Objectives (UMass-Amherst)
This section of the University of Massachusetts Handbook for Program review provides useful working defintions of goals and objectives for student learning outcomes, how to write them, and examples of well-constructed goals and objectives. This handbook is also available in pdf format.
http://www.umass.edu/oapa/oapa/publications/online_handbooks/program_based_assessment/ch2.php

Accreditation and Higher Education

Assessment Resources from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)
Collects together the related accreditation standards for assessment (Policy Statement on Student Achievement and Success), the E-Series and S-Series forms and approaches to assessment that fulfill NEASC requirements (Becoming More Explicit in Looking at Student Success) and a matrix for approaching NEASC standards using an input-process-output model (Focusing on Outcomes: Some Examples).
http://cihe.innercirclemedia-temp4.com/accreditation_processes_resources/accreditation_resources/

Advantages of Assessment
Argues that when done correctly assessment can provide information that will help to improve higher education and also answer questions about accountability in the political sphere.
Jones, J. B. (2007). "Start with a number..." Inside HigherEd. November 16, 2007. http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/11/16/jones

Distance Learning

How to Review Online Courses
Chao, T., Saj, T & Tess, F. (2006). “Establishing a quality review for online courses” Educause Quarterly 29.3 http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/EstablishingaQuality/39988?time=1194921743

Rubric for Evaluating Online Courses
Robleay, M.D. & Ekhaml, L. (2000). “How interactive are you distance courses? A rubric for assessing interaction in distance learning.” Distance Learning Association Annual Meeting (Best Paper). http://www.westga.edu/~distance/roblyer32.html

Student Experience in Online and Hybrid Courses Conf. Proceedings (2003)
Multiple items http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/conference/presenters/

Undergraduate Research

Assessment Strategies
Stewart, J. L. (2003). “Assessment and evaluation of the undergraduate research experience.” Texas A&M Annual Assessment Conference Paper http://opd.tamu.edu/seminar-materials/seminar-materials-by-date/june-22-2005-reu-workshop/assessment-and-evaluation-of-the-undergraduate-research-asse.pdf

Integrating Research and Undergraduate Learning (IRUL) Project
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor http://www.undergraduate.research.umich.edu/homeassessment.html

Literature Review of Undergraduate Research Initiatives
Grauerholz, E., Hamann, K. & Wang, A. (2007). "The research of undergraduate research." AAC&U Conference Paper. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM07/documents/
TheResearchofUndergraduateResearch-UCF.doc

Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation, and Dissemination (LEAD) Center
University of Wisconsin - Madison
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~lead/pages/external.html

Scholarship and Teaching
Elgren, T. & Hensel, N. (2006). "Undergraduate research experiences: synergies between scholarship and teaching." Peer Review 8.1. http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi06/PR-WI06_analysis.cfm

Writing and Undergraduate Research
Chapman, D.W. (2003). "Undergraduate research and the mandate for writing assessment." Peer Review 5.4. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4115/is_200310/ai_n9271630