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:
  • Assessment Update Issue 32:1, January/February 2020
• 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

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CampusLabs Assessment Software Training

Summer 2020 Schedule

Please RSVP to thamrick@shsu.edu in order to receive a Zoom meeting invitation.

Day	Date	Time	Location
Tuesday	July 21st	10:00-11:30 am	Zoom

Assessment Brown Bag Lunch Series

Summer 2020 Schedule

Please RSVP to thamrick@shsu.edu in order to receive a Zoom meeting invitation.  All meetings for this series will be held 12:00-1:00 pm.

Topic	Day	Date
Assessment Open Forum	Tuesday	June 16th
The Role of Assessment in Times of Disruption and Crisis in Higher Education	Wednesday	July 22nd
Using Your Assessment Data to Drive Good Actions for Improvement	Thursday	August 27th

Assessment Open Forum - Have burning questions about Assessment? Have a question you want to ask the Assessment Director? Want to know more about assessment best practices? Then sign up to attend our assessment open forum and come get answers to all your assessment-related questions!

The Role of Assessment in Times of Disruption and Crisis in Higher Education - The COVID-19 crisis has proven to be a significant disruption to the normal teaching and functions at SHSU. However, assessment remains important even in times of crisis. Come learn more about the vital role that assessment continues to play for your students, your programs, and the University during this (and other) times of disruption.

Using Your Assessment Data to Drive Good Actions for Improvement - One of the fundamental keys to effective assessment practices is that you use your assessment data to drive efforts to improve student learning and program effectiveness. However, many units struggle with this important part of the assessment practice. Bring your questions and learn about how you can design and implement effective assessment processes that allow you to develop data-informed actions for improvement.

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. 

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