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.

• 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
• Presentations:
  • Assessment Overview Presentation
  • Using Curriculum Mapping to Help Drive Assessment Plan Development
• Print Resources:
  • 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

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.

• External Assessment Resources

CampusLabs Assessment Software Training

Fall 2019 Schedule

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

Assessment Brown Bag Lunch Series

Fall 2019 Schedule

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

Assessment Presentations

Fall 2019 Schedule

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

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.