Assessment, Evaluation & Organizational Development
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- Meet the AEOD Team
Resources
Below, please find a collection of resources, tools, and supports to help guide your Student Affairs and Campus Life assessment efforts.
Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
Compare available BI Tools (Cognos and Tableau) based on your needs and find out which BI Tool is right for you.
Privacy
Privacy is not just about confidentiality, but also about having control over our own domains. Privacy is integral to free speech, openness in research, and the ethical treatment of individuals and institutional assets. Beyond compliance with laws, privacy is trust!
Qualtrics is a robust online survey-building tool that is highly customizable and easy to use. With the Qualtrics Research Suite, you are able to build and distribute your survey, analyze and report on your results, and collaborate in real-time in an easy to navigate web-based interface.
- Design surveys with the intuitive drag-and-drop tool, 50+ survey templates, and 100+ question types
- Reach respondents wherever they are, with surveys on mobile devices, apps, websites, and more
Qualtrics enterprise licensing is funded through a partnership between Academic Affairs, Health Information Services and Information Technology Services (ITS). Current UC San Diego faculty, staff and students can access to this powerful tool free of charge.
Contact qualtrics@ucsd.edu with any questions or issues.
Getting Started with Qualtrics
Qualtrics is now available to UC San Diego faculty, staff and students.
- Learn how to use Qualtrics:
- Review the training resources
- Watch Qualtrics' on-demand webinars
- Login to Qualtrics
- Join the Qualtrics Slack Channel to join the UC San Diego Qualtrics community.
Resources
Features
- Survey building and design
- Survey building wizard
- Create surveys from scratch
- Survey distribution
- Randomized questions
- Supports use of video
- Graphics and rich media
- Data collection and management
- Mobile friendly
- Captcha verification
- Document uploads
- Tracks invitations and reminders via email
- Data analysis
- Data storage in Qualtrics
- Real-time reporting
- Export data in multiple formats (SPSS, Excel, HTML, PDF, and more)
- Integrate with existing Customer Relationship Management solutions (e.g. SalesForce)
Anthology Planning (formerly known as Compliance Assist) is an assessment management system that provides the template and structure for reporting. Planning is a useful platform for:
- Planning assessment activities
- Documenting student learning
- Submitting assessment reports
- Tracking progress on unit priorities
- Sharing our assessment efforts
- Sharing our goals and metrics
Getting Started with Anthology Planning
- Request an online account online through the Planning Account Request form. You'll receive an email confirmation confirming your account creation. Please allow up to a week to process your account.
- Once your account has been made, sign in on the UC San Diego Planning log-in page using your username and password.
Additional Resources
UC San Diego / VC-SACL resources
- Learning Outcomes Assessment Institute, presented by Marilee J. Bresciani, Ph.D., December 6 and 13, 2010 (PDFs):
- Enhancing Outcomes-Based Assessment for Student Affairs, presentation slides
- Typical Components of an Assessment Plan and Report
- Outcome Delivery Mapping Worksheet (or download the Excel file)
- Assessment Coalition (PDF): Presentation given by Dr. Penny Rue at the first meeting of the Student Affairs Assessment Coalition, May 2008
- Student Affairs Learning Domains (PDF)
- Understanding Today's College Men and Women: Findings from a National Study on Gender and the Student Experience (PDF), presentation by Prof. Linda J. Sax, UCLA
- Student Research & Information: Includes links to student data sets, including annual freshman and senior surveys and the University of California Undergraduate Experiences Survey (UCUES)
Websites
- NASPA Knowledge Community/ Assessment, Evaluation and Research: Find links to Student Affairs research or assessment sites for benchmarking opportunities.
- College Student Educators International (ACPA) Commission for Assessment and Evaluation: Use the links across the top of the page to access various assessment resources.
Books
- ASK (Assessment Skills and Knowledge) Standards Booklet: Available as a free download for ACPA members
- Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, Linda Suskie, Trudy W. Banta (Jossey-Bass, 2009)
- Assessment Essentials, Catherine A. Palomba, Trudy W. Banta and Associates (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
- Assessment Practice in Student Affairs: An Applications Manual, John H. Schuh, M. Lee Upcraft (Jossey-Bass, 2000)
- Building A Culture of Evidence in Student Affairs: A Guide for Leaders and Practitioners, Marguerite Mcgann Culp and Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy, Editors (NASPA, 2012
- Demonstrating Student Success, Marilee J. Bresciani, Megan Moore Gardner, Jessica Hickmott (Stylus, 2010)
- Learning is Not a Sprint: Assessing and Documenting Student Leader Learning in Co-curricular Involvement, Kathy M. Collins and Darby M. Roberts, Editors (NASPA, 2012)
- Learning Reconsidered, ed. Richard P. Keeling (ACPA/NASPA, 2004): Use this link to download a full copy of this volume.
- Learning Reconsidered 2: Implementing a Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience, (ACPA/NASPA, et al., 2006): This follow-up text provides tools and materials for putting the first volume's recommendations into practice.
- Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Benjamin S. Bloom (1956)
Articles & reports
- American Association of Higher Education (AAHEA) Bulletin Article Index: Link to a few articles on assessment practices.
- Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS): Assessment Resources
- Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education (U.S. Dept. of Education, et al., 1984)
- NASPA's Net Results: If you're a NASPA member, check out the assessment story provided in this weekly e-zine.
- The Student Learning Imperative: Implications for Student Affairs (American College Personnel Assn., 1994, 2008)
Rubrics
American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) VALUE Rubrics (PDF files).
Reprinted with permission from Assessing Outcomes and Improving Achievement: Tips and tools for Using Rubrics, edited by Terrel L. Rhodes. Copyright 2010 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
- Intellectual and Practical Skills
- Personal and Social Responsibility
- Integrative and Applied Learning
Other assessment tools
- 50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (CAT) (PDF) by Angelo and Cross (1993) provided by University of Notre Dame Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning
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