Resources
Selected Books
Ambrose, Susan, et al. (2010) How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. San Francisco: Wiley.
Bain, Ken. (2004) What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Barkley, E. F., & Major, C. H. (2016) Learning assessment techniques: A handbook for college faculty. Jossey Bass.
Bean, J. C., & Melzer, D. (2021) Engaging ideas: The professor’s guide to integrating writing, critical thinking, and active learning in the classroom (third edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Blum, S. D. (2020) UNgrading: Why rating students undermines learning (and what to do instead). Morgantown: West Virginia University.
Darby, Flower and James Lang. (2019) Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes. San Francisco: Wiley.
Davis, James and Bridget Arend. (2012) Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning, A Resource for more purposeful, effective and enjoyable college teaching. Stylus.
Fink, L. Dee. (2013) Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, Revised and Updated. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Lang, James. (2016). Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (San Francisco: Wiley.
McGuire, Saundra, and Stephanie McGuire. (2015) Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Walvoord, B. E., Johnson Anderson, V. (2010) Effective grading: A tool for learning and assessment in college (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Centers and Organizations
The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) offers a wide range of resources in the online Resource Library.
The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) promotes standards to enhance opportunities for student learning and development from higher education programs and services.
The Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) is a community of educators who inform assessment practices in higher education to foster and improve student learning and institutional quality.
The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has been a longtime leader for the Essential Learning Outcomes and VALUE rubrics projects.
Assessment Journals
The University of Hawai’i at Manoa maintains a current and detailed list of scholarly and practitioner journals focused on assessment.
CSU Resources
The Institute for Teaching and Learning (TILT) at CSU provides assessment resources, training, and curricular redesign services to ensure sustainable and meaningful assessment practices within courses and programs of study using the Teaching Effectiveness Framework. The Teaching Effectiveness Framework comprises seven essential, interrelated domains of effective teaching practices—for face-to-face and online instruction—each grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
The Division of Student Affairs Assessment Team supports Division staff through the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs in accessing, collecting, analyzing, reporting, and sharing meaningful data that inform and equitably enhance their programs, services, and learning outcomes.
Institutional Research, Planning & Effectiveness at CSU supports institutional assessment through collection, analysis, and reporting of institutional data. The Director of Assessment provides leadership for institutional and academic assessment activities.