Assessment in Higher Education Links

Assessment of  educational outcomes--at the various levels of individual students, departmental programs, and institutional programming--has become an important issue in pharmacy education.  Many educators are now being asked to show evidence of tutorial successes, beyond the traditional indicators of student pass/fail ratios and student evaluations of teaching.  The questions about assessment are prominent throughout higher education, and pharmacy educators may benefit from the lessons learned by their colleagues in other disciplines.

Below is a list of several links pertaining to assessment in higher education.   The list is grouped according to area of assessment.  If you are willing to share any experiences pertinent to assessment in pharmacy that would be valuable to the community of pharmacy educators, or if you know of a useful link that should be added to this list, please notify the site coordinator (pharmednet@olemiss.edu), and that addition will be made.

General Assessment Resources

• ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
• Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment housed at North Carolina State University; a fairly comprehensive list of assessment information on the web
• Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment site; the University of Colorado at Boulder shares many of its experiences in this area.

Classroom Assessment (Individual Level)

• Suggestions for Getting Started with Student Outcomes Assessment, from the California Academic Press
• Popular Classroom Assessment Techniques, details five of the most popular techniques from Angelo and Cross's text Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers 
• Classroom Assessment Pages at Southern Illinois University (includes descriptions of several techniques)
• CyberCATs -- a collection of classroom assessment techniques administered and reported via the Internet

Program Assessment

• Standardized Patient Assessment at the University of Florida College of Medicine's Harrell Professional Development and Assessment Center
• Sourcebook of Assessment Information (for Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Writing), written for the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative
• Assessment Manual, a useful and brief reference explaining programmatic assessment, compiled at Texas A&M

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