Assessment Resources

The Office of Academic Planning and Assessment provides several tools for faculty and staff to help in creating and updating assessment plans for both academic and non-academic units across campus. Visit the links below to help guide you, but do not hesitate to contact our office for personalized training or assistance.

• NEW! Visit our YouTube channel where you will find the following helpful training videos:
  • Accessing CampusLabs at Sam Houston State University
  • Running an Assessment Plan Summary Report in CampusLabs
  • Adding New Assessment Plan Items in CampusLabs
• Assessment Overview Presentation
• Assessment FAQ
• Definitions of Assessment Plan Items
• Assessment Plan Elements Flowchart
• Action Verbs for Assessment Planning
• Best Practices for Documenting Assessment of Online and Distance Education Programs
• Meta-assessment Rubric
• CampusLabs User Guide

CampusLabs Assessment Software Training

Spring 2019 Schedule

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to thamrick@shsu.edu

Assessment Brown Bag Lunch Series

Spring 2019 Schedule

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to thamrick@shsu.edu

Assessment Workshops

Fall 2018 Schedule

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to bjones@shsu.edu

Online Assessment Tracking Database (OATDB) Archive

Sam Houston State University (SHSU) documents assessment information in the campus's online assessment management system. From 2006-2007 through the 2014-2015 assessment cycle, SHSU used the Online Assessment Tracking Database (OATDB), a locally-developed assessment management system, to document each unit's assessment plans. This site serves as an archive of the assessment plans for those years: OATDB Archive. 

Conference Presentations

The staff of the Office of Academic Planning and Assessment have also made a number of assessment-related scholarly and professional presentations. Please visit the links below for more information about both assessment best-practices and assessment activities at SHSU.

Core Learning/General Education

• Building Global Citizens: One Institution's Plan to use Multiple Measures to Assess Social Responsibility, Intercultural Knowledge, and Civic Engagement
• (Re)Building Credibility: One University's Journey into Writing Assessment
• Sam Houston State University's Plan for Assessing its Core Curriculum and the THECB's Six Core Learning Objectives
• Relationship Between Student Writing Ability and Student Characteristics at One Texas 4-Year University
• Differences in Student Writing Ability as a Function of Student Characteristics at One Texas 4-Year University
• Moving Beyond Means: Exploring How One University is Using Writing Data to Improve Performance
• Assessing Teamwork Using Student Self-Reflections: Efforts to Design and Pilot a Locally Developed Instrument
• Expanding the Use of an Existing Course/Program-level Critical Thinking Assessment to the Institutional Level
• Assessing Teamwork Using Student Self-Reflections: Evolution of a Locally Developed Instrument
• Slaying Assessment Dragons: Assessing Teamwork Using the Teamwork Self-Reflection Instrument (TSRI)
• Assessing Student Critical Thinking, Metacognition, and Intellectual Humility Using a Locally Developed Instrument

Assessment

• Promoting the Scholarship of Assessment at Sam Houston State University through Mini-Grants
• How do we Assess the Assessment? Developing and Implementing a Process for Formal Meta-assessment
• The Development and Evolution of Assessment Review Processes at Two Texas Institutions
• Student Support Services Assessment: Moving Beyond Headcounts
• Supporting Faculty Engagement in Ongoing and Innovative Assessment Practices Through Assessment Mini-Grants