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• Academic Support Units
  • ACCESS
  • Registration and Records
• Academic Units
  • College of Business
• Accreditation
  • College of Business
  • NCATE, Debunking Myths of (part one)
  • NCATE, Debunking Myths of (part two)
  • Reasonable Expectations
  • Higher Learning Commision-Accreditation Criteria
    • Criterion One
    • Criterion Two
    • Criterion Three
    • Criterion Four
    • Criterion Five
• Adams, Jeff
• Alumni Survey
  • Alumni Survey, Centralized Assessments Available at NIU 
  • Alumni Survey 1, 5, and 9 Year Results 
  • More Alumni Survey Results listed under 'Outcomes'
• Annual Assessment Updates
  • Assessment Updates Reach 100% Compliance
  • Assessment Reports Perform Double Duty
• Assessment Expo
  • Expo 2008 Video (high res)
  • Expo 2008 Video (low res)
• Assessment Services

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• Comparative Intituitional Performance
• Campus Assessment Network
• Capstone Experiences
  • Annual Call for Capstone Course Development Proposals
  • Capstone Rubrics
    • Action Research (Literacy Education)
    • Personal Professional Development (Literacy Education)
    • Research and Report Rubric (Chemistry)
  • Capstone Courses
    • Internship in Literacy Educatoin (LTCY 586)
• Centralized Assessments at NIU 
• Change Management
• Changnon, David
• CHEA Award for Instituitional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes
• Chemistry and Biochemistry  
• Coakley, Michael
• College Student Survey (CSS)
• Collegiate Learning Assessment
  • Value Added Assessments
• Commission on the Future of Higher Education
  • Spellings Commission Report
  • The Final Report
• Conferences
  • Assessment Institute 2004
  • Assessment Institute 2003
• Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
• Critical Thinking
  • Critical Thinking Rubric
  • Critical and Integrative Thinking Rubric
  • Self Assessment & Peer Assessment Develop Critical Thinking Skills
• Culture of Assessment

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• Day, Michael
• Direct Vs. Indirect Assessment

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• Eder, Douglas
• Emmett, Michelle

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• Faculty Participation
• FAQ
  • Alumni Surveys- How Do They Work?
  • Alumni Survey (NIU)
  • Assessment-Isn't Assessment Ever Going Away?
  • Assessment Literature
  • Assessment- Principles of
  • Assessment- Reasons to Conduct Assessment
  • Assessment Reports Do Double Duty
  • Centralized Assessments 
  • Collecting Data- Must a Progam Collect All Data Every Year?
  • Course Assessment- Large Enrollment
  • Direct Vs. Indirect Assessment
  • Employer/External Feedback
  • Grades- Why Aren't They Valid Assessment Tools?
  • Portfolio Assessment
  • Pre-test/Post-test Assessment
  • Student Learning Outcomes- Measuring
  • Student Retention
  • Survey Data- What To Do With It.
  • University Assessment Panel
  • University Level Assessments
  • University Writing Project
• Foreign Languages and Literature, E- Portfolios
• First Year Teacher Survey
• Franklin, Amy

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• General Education Assessment
  • General Education Committee- Comprehensive Assessment Plan 
• Gentemann, Karen  (What to do with Survey Data?)
• Glossary

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• Higher Learning Commision-Accreditation Criteria
  • Criterion One
  • Criterion Two
  • Criterion Three
  • Criterion Four
  • Criterion Five
• Holly, Rich

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• Indirect Vs. Direct Assessment
• Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes-CHEA Awards

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• Junior-Level Writing Project

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• Learning Communities, Benefits of

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• Measurable Verbs for Learning Outcomes  
• Methods
  • Adaptive Assessment
  • Articulating Assessment
  • Characteristics of a Good Plan
  • Course Embedded Assessment
  • Cycle of Assessment
  • Direct Assessment
  • Direct versus Indirect
  • Fair Practices, Seven Steps to
  • General Advice
  • Grades: Why They Aren't Valid Assessment Tools
  • Indirect Assessment
  • Large Enrollment Course Assessment
  • One-Minute Paper, The
  • Online Assessment
  • Portfolios: Artifact Selection
  • Protfolios: Portfolio Assessment
  • Portfolios: Two Uses of
  • Pre-test/Post-test
  • Rubrics, defined
  • Student Peer Assessment
  • Two-Step Approach

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• NCATE, Debunking Myths of (part one)
• NCATE, Debunking Myths of (part two)

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• Office of Assessment Services
• Online Assessment
• Outcomes
  • Alumni Survey, Graduate
    • Graduate 2002
    • Graduate 2003
    • Graduate 2004
    • Graduate 2005 
    • Graduate 2006
  • Alumni Survey, Undergraduate
    • Undergraduate 2001
    • Undergraduate 2003
    • Undergraduate 2004
    • Undergraduate 2005
    • Undergraduate 2006
  • Employer Evaluations Results
  • Non-Returning Student Survey, 2005
  • Online Courses, Students' Perceptions of, 2004
  • Retention, 2004
  • Teacher Certification Exit Survey Findings
  • Your First College Year (YFCY), Spring 2004

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• Peer Assessment Tools
• Portfolio Tools
  • Artifact Selection
  • Assessment
  • Self Assessment Tools
• Principles
  • of Assessment
  • of Good Practice
• Problem Solving Analysis Protocol (P-SAP) Rubric
  • Part 1 of 4
  • Part 2 of 4
  • Part 3 of 4
  • Part 4 of 4

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• Residential Dining Assessment
• Resources
  • Contacts, March 2005
  • General, December 2004
  • Principles of Assessment
• Richmond, Shirley
• Rogers, Gloria
• Rubrics
  • Action Research (Literacy Education)
  • Causal Complexity
  • Causal Locus
  • Critical and Integrative Thinking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Defined
  • English Department Writing Skills
  • Peer Assessment Tools
  • Personal Professional Development (Literacy Education)
  •   P-SAP Rubric (Problem Solving Analysis Rubric)
  • • Part 1 of 4
    • Part 2 of 4
    • Part 3 of 4
    • Part 4 of 4
  • Research and Report Rubric (Chemistry)
  • The Rubric Machine: A Collaborative Rubric Toolkit       [Rubric-Builder Website]

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• Seaver, Gip
• Self Assessment Tools
• Simon, Donna
• Sorenson, Christine
• Spellings Commision
  • Spellings Commission Report
  • The Final Report
• Standardized Testing
• Student Affairs Units
  • Career Planning and Placement Center
  • New Assistant Vice President
  • Student Affairs Assessment Planning for 2005
  • Student Housing and Dining
• Student Engagement
  • VSA Approaches to Accountability Part 2 of 3 
• Surveys
  •  General 
    • What to do with Survey Data
  • Teacher Graduate Assessment Instrument
  • UOTC Exit Survey Findings
• Swanson, Amy
• Swing, Randy

 

 

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• Teacher Certification Exit Survey Findings
• Teacher Graduate Assessment Instrument
• Team Based Assessment Model for Effecting Change
• Transparency and Accountability

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• UOTC Exit Survey Findings
• University Assessment Panel
• University Assessment Plan
  • Alumni Performance Feedback
  • Alumni Surveys, How They Work
  • Backbone Model, Draft of
  • College Student Survey (CSS)
  • Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP)
  • Junior-Level Writing Project
  • Your First College Year (YFCY)
• University information for Students and Parents
• University Level Assessments
• University Writing Project
  • University Writting Project-call for faculty participation

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• Assessment Expo 2008
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• Value Added Assessments
• Videotaped Assessment Interviews
  • Chagnon, David
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  • Coakley, Michael
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  • Day, Michael
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  • Emmett, Michelle
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  • Franklin, Amy
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  • Holly, Rich
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  • Seaver, Gip
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  • Sorenson, Christine
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  • Vohra, Promod
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  • Wakefield, Sally
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  • Watson, Lemuel
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• Vohra, Promod
• Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA)
  • Approaches to Accountability- part 1 of 3 (Comparative Institutional Information)
  • Approaches to Accountability- part 2 of 3 (Student Engagement)

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• Wakefield, Sally
• Walker, David
• Watson, Lemuel
• Workshops
  • Portfolio Integration
  • Yancey, Kathleen
• Writing Project
  • Writting Project-call for faculty participation

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• Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey
• YFCY Outcomes
  • Critical Thinking and Research Ability

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• Zerwas, Stephen

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