Online Resources
Introduction
Our office has created online, asynchronous trainings and curated online resources to support individuals involved in the cocurricular learning outcome assessment process. The video-based trainings are organized by thematic tasks related to the cocurricular learning outcome assessment process. Each training consists of multiple short videos. If you cannot complete the training in a single session, you can close your browser and continue where you left off at a later time using the same link. The other online resources provide more information on learning outcomes assessment, including how it is conducted and why it is important for improving student learning.
Online Resources
Cocurricular Assessment Findings Report Overview
This training provides an overview of the assessment findings report used during the 1st year of the cocurricular learning outcome assessment cycle with tips and examples. This module consists of 4 parts lasting approximately 15 minutes total.
Cocurricular Assessment Implementation Report Overview
This training provides an overview of the assessment implementation report used during the 2nd year of the degree program learning outcome assessment cycle with tips and examples. This module consists of 1 part lasting approximately 4 minutes total.
Developing and Revising Learning Outcomes
This training describes what learning outcomes are (and are not), discusses frameworks for developing learning priorities, and shares best practices when developing learning outcome statements for degree programs along with helpful examples. This module consists of 3 parts lasting approximately 22 minutes total, and can be completed in multiple sittings.
Begin this training module by clicking this link.
Note: After you revise your learning outcomes, please submit them to APRA using this online form.
Previous Training Presentations
These presentations provide further insight and guidance regarding learning outcomes assessment. They provide information on the development student learning outcomes, the development of student learning assessment infrastructure, and learning outcomes assessment methods.
Cocurricular Learning Assessment: Part 1 Developing Student Learning Outcomes
Cocurricular Learning Assessment: Part 2 Assessing Student Learning Outcomes
Resources
Internal Resources:
Student Affairs Assessment and Planning supports units within Student Affairs in incorporating assessment into the programs and services provided to students. Assessment ranges from tracking participation rates to measuring student satisfaction, student learning, and program effectiveness.
External Resources:
The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment is a research and resource-development organization dedicated to facilitating the systematic use of learning outcomes assessment to improve student learning.
Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience is a comprehensive report which argues for “the integrated use of all of higher education’s resources in the education and preparation of the whole student. It is also an introduction to new ways of understanding and supporting learning and development as intertwined, inseparable elements of the student experience. It advocates for transformative education – a holistic process of learning that places the student at the center of the learning experience”.
Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide offers comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance for student learning assessment which focuses on how to organize assessment process, rubric designs, setting standards and targets.
Stop Asking Students to “Strongly Agree”: Let’s Directly Measure Cocurricular Learning – an article which argues for asking students to demonstrate (rather than say) what they have learned from their cocurricular activities.