Assessment Resources
The Office of Assessment provides resources 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 please do not hesitate to contact our office for personalized training or assistance.
General Assessment Information
- Assessment Overview
- Assessment FAQ
- Why should you assess? (benefits of assessment)
- External Assessment Resources
Assessment Planning
- Assessment Plan Item Definitions
- Assessment Plan Item Flowchart
- Developing and Measuring Learning Objectives
- Developing and Measuring Performance Objectives
- Meta-Assessment Rubric
Anthology Planning (Assessment Mgmt. System)
- New Target Field in KPI Plan Item (quick video explanation)
- Anthology Planning User Guide
- Training Schedule
- Anthology Planning Webpage (log in, view deadlines)
How-To Videos for Academic Programs
How-To Videos for Administrative & Support Units
Additional Resources for Academic Units
- Curriculum Mapping
- Introduction to Assessment for Department Chairs
- Best Practices for Documenting Assessment of Online and Distance Education Programs
- Student Achievement Data
Articles and Presentations
Assessment staff have delivered a number of assessment-related scholarly and professional presentations. Please visit the links below for more information about 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
- SHSU's Excellence in Assessment Designation - Assessment Update Issue 32:1, January/February 2020
- 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
- Promoting Quality and Effective Assessment Practices Through Meta-Assessment