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.
- Read about our journey to becoming an Excellence in Assessment Designee:
- Visit our YouTube channel where you will find the following helpful training videos:
- Presentations:
- Print Resources:
Are you interested in assessment research, conferences, and general information outside of SHSU? Access the below document for a list of organizations, journals, assessment institutes, online resources, and email listservs.
OAPA has compiled a number of free online articles and resources on teaching and assessing during Coronavirus.
- Moving Online Now: How to Keep Teaching During Coronavirus: https://connect.chronicle.com/rs/931-EKA-218/images/CoronaVirus_ArticlesCollection.pdf
- Advice for Faculty Members in Turbulent Times: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/03/19/how-faculty-members-can-best-cope-stresses-covid-19-opinion
- Hope Matters: Mays Imad Offers 10 Teaching Strategies to Support Students and Help Them Continue to Learn During This Time of Uncertainty: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/03/17/10-strategies-support-students-and-help-them-learn-during-coronavirus-crisis?_ga=2.85635482.2031672481.1584544745-1469887769.1578498525
- So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/03/11/practical-advice-instructors-faced-abrupt-move-online-teaching-opinion?_ga=2.66802093.2031672481.1584544745-1469887769.1578498525
- In the Virtual Classroom: Teaching With Video Conferencing: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2020/in-the-virtual-classroom-teaching-with-video-conferencing
- Assessment in Remote Classes: Making Discussions and Research Papers Work Online: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2020/assessment-in-remote-classes-making-discussions-and-research-papers-work-online
CampusLabs Assessment Software Training
Fall 2020 Schedule
Please RSVP to thamrick@shsu.edu in order to receive a Zoom meeting invitation.
| Day | Date | Time | Location |
| Tuesday | September 15 | 10:00-11:30 am | Zoom |
| Wednesday | October 14 | 1:00-2:30 pm | Zoom |
| Thursday | November 19 | 9:00-10:30 am | Zoom |
Assessment Brown Bag Lunch Series
Fall 2020 Schedule
Please RSVP to thamrick@shsu.edu in order to receive a Zoom meeting invitation.
| Topic | Day | Date | Time |
| The Importance of Clear and Effective Objectives in Assessment | Wednesday | September 23 | 12:00-1:00 |
| Culturally Responsive and Equitable Assessment | Tuesday | October 20 | 12:00-1:00 |
| TBA | Thursday | November 12 | 12:00-1:00 |
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
- Promoting Faculty Engagement in Ongoing and Innovative Assessment Practices Through a Culture of Assessment
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.