Resources

Program Review and Educational Quality in the Major: A Faculty Handbook
The handbook describes key elements of effective major programs including connections with liberal learning, inclusiveness, and evaluation and assessment. It also provides a protocol for departmental self-study and recommends ways of including outcomes in program review. (1992)

Students at the Center: Feminist Assessment
This book describes strategies and instruments that can be used to assess what and how students learn. It asserts that student-centered, feminist assessments can be a useful vehicle for improving teaching and learning in any discipline. An appendix also includes sample assessment and evaluation tools from campuses across the country. (1992)

Value Added Assessment of Liberal Education
(Peer Review, Winter/Spring 2002)
This special issue presents the RAND Corporation/Council for Aid to Education’s Value Added Assessment Initiative, a long-term project to assess the quality of undergraduate liberal education in America at the institutional level. Also included are several initial responses to the initiative.

Understanding the Difference Diversity Makes: Assessing Campus Diversity Initiatives Series

These three publications are designed to provide the rationale for, research about, and guidance for the assessment of diversity initiatives on campuses today.

To Form A More Perfect Union: Campus Diversity Initiatives
This book charts the efforts of colleges and universities to move from the rhetoric of inclusion to the practice of equity. Etching a portrait of the new academy as it is transformed and reinvigorated by diversity initiatives, the monograph maps the emerging trends in diversity work and insights gained in the process. (1999)

A Diversity Research Agenda
Arguing for the importance of further research about the impact of diversity and higher education, this volume suggests key theoretical frameworks critical when investigating diversity. It also identifies specific areas in the field of diversity research and assessment in which more study is needed. (2000)

Assessing Campus Diversity Initiatives: A Guide for Campus Practitioners
This monograph provides tip and tools for designing and developing effective diversity evaluations. Topics addressed include the need for assessment, designing an evaluation plan, institutional context, audience, data collection and analysis, performance indicators, and theoretical models. (2002)