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

• Planning for the New Assessment Cycle
• Cycle Wrap-Up: Findings
• Cycle Wrap-Up: Actions & PCI Elements

How-To Videos for Administrative & Support Units

• Planning for the New Assessment Cycle
• Cycle Wrap-Up: Results
• Cycle Wrap-Up: Actions & PCI Elements

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