Assessment Resource Links

Bloom's Taxonomy: http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

Higher Education Assessment page: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/index.php

National Survey of Student Engagement: http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group The TLT Group mission is to provide materials and services that motivate and enable institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change. See also the Flashlight Program, dedicated to evaluating the role of technology in assessment and learning.

Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives "Bloom's taxonomy," developed nearly fifty years ago, is still a useful guide for thinking about teaching and learning. This site, and others linked to it, includes lists of suggested verbs for describing practically any learning objectives.

9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning The nine principles form the basis for distinguishing good assessment practices from the not-so-good.

"What Do We Know About Students' Learning and How Do We Know It?" by Patricia Cross. If we are to take learning seriously, we need to know what to look for (through research), to observe ourselves in the act of lifelong learning (self-reflection), and to be much more sensitively aware of the learning of the students that we see before us everyday.

"Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever" A discussion of the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education in the context of communication and information technologies, by Steve Ehrmann and Arthur Chickering.

Organizing for Learning : A Point of Entry" by Peter Ewell A condensed summary of what is known about learning, promoting learning, and institutional change.

"The New Conversations About Learning: Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology, Cognitive Science and Work-Place Studies" An in-depth exploration of the implications of new knowledge about learning for the organization and practice of higher education, by Ted Marchese.

http://www.ericae.net/ Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation

Critical Thinking sites:

http://dl.clackamas.cc.or.us/ch104-02/inference.htm

http://www.criticalreading.com/inference_process.htm

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/skill-builder/reading-comprehension/48611.html

http://www-bioc.rice.edu/pblclass/6th%20grade/process%20skills/oi/o&i.htm

http://www.slideshare.net/mrmularella/observations-vs-inferences

Critical Thinking Glossary of Terms

For questions regarding assessment at WITC, please contact Barb Landstrom, Director, Academic Advancement at (715) 468-2815 ext 2261 at the Shell Lake Administrative Office or e-mail barb.landstrom@witc.edu