National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

Reports:

1. Focused on What Matters: Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes at Minority-Serving Institutions
2. Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning Outcomes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Occasional Papers:

1. Equity and Assessment: Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment
2. Responses to Equity and Assessment
3. A New Decade for Assessment: Embedding Equity into Assessment Praxis

Viewpoints:

1. Helping Faculty Use Assessment Data to Provide More Equitable Learning Experiences
2. The Comprehensive Student Record at Dillard University
3. Some Thoughts on Assessing Intercultural Competence
4. Where is Culture in Higher Education Assessment and Evaluation?
5. Ensuring Fairness in Unprecedented Times: Grading Our Nation’s Students
6. Humanizing Assessment

Assessment in Practice:

• Implementing a Student Assessment Scholars Program: Students Engaging in Continuous Improvement
• Assessing Intersectional Experiences: Where to Begin?

Equity Responses:

1. Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Culturally Responsive Assessment Practice
2. Culturally Responsive Assessment: A Missed Call for Italy?
3. Using Your Sphere of Influence to Impact Culturally Responsive Assessment

Case Studies:

1. Capital University
2. Cornell University
3. Portland State University
4. Capella University
5. North Carolina A&T State University
6. St. Edward’s University
7. Texas A&M International University
8. LaGuardia Community College

Related Resources:

1. Antiracist Resources for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment of Student Learning (NILOA)
2. Socially Just Assessment Resources
   • Socially Just Assessment Podcast
   • Student Affairs Assessment Blog on Furthering Critical and Socially Just Assessment
3. Colorado Department of Higher Education’s Equity Toolkit. A few examples from the toolkit are:
   • Inclusive Curriculum Design in Higher Education
   • Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice
   • Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Reflecting on Your Practice
4. Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL)
   • Community Colleges for All (CC-ALL)
   • Podcast- Democracy’s College: Research And Leadership In Educational Equity, Justice, And Excellence
5. The Intercultural Learning Hub’s Digital Toolbox has catalogued over 70 formative and summative assessment tools for intercultural learning, many of which are useful for Diversity and Inclusion purposes. To find these, you will need to create a free account and follow these steps:
   1. Select the Advanced Search function (left side of the page)
   2. Set the Tool Type to be Assessment (ignore the Kinesthetic options), then click ‘Next’
   3. In the frameworks page check Diversity & Inclusion, then click ‘Next’
   4. Ignore the options on the Context page and click ‘Search’
6. 2020 AALHE Conference keynote from Dr. Natasha Jankowski: “Reflections on Equity in Interesting Times“
7. ACUE’s Inclusive Teaching Practices Toolkit
8. The Center for Urban Education’s Equity-Minded Syllabus Review Guide

Occasional Papers:

1. Towards a Model for Assessment in an Information and Technology-rich 21st Century Learning Environment
2. Technology Solutions to Support Assessment
   • Assessment Related Technologies
3. Assessing Learning in Online Education: The Role of Technology in Improving Student Outcomes
4. Assessing Student Learning in the Online Modality
5. Documenting Learning: The Comprehensive Learner Record

Viewpoints:

1. Demand interoperability to dramatically improve the educational ecosystem
2. Real-time Student Assessment: Prioritizing Enrolled Students Equitable Progress toward Achieving a High-Quality Degree
3. Helping Faculty Use Assessment Data to Provide More Equitable Learning Experiences
4. Catalyst for Learning: ePortfolio-Based Outcomes Assessment
5. Embedded Assessment and Evidence-Based Mapping: The Promise of Learning Analytics
6. Why Student Learning Outcomes Assessment is Key to the Future of MOOCs
7. What to Consider When Selecting an Assessment Management System
8. From Uniformity to Personalization: How to Get the Most Out of Assessment

Assessment in Practice:

1. Achieving Excellence in Data Visualization
2. Relationship between general education course sequence and student success
3. Digitally Automated Assessment of Outcomes Classified Per Bloom’s Three Domains and Based on Frequency and Type of Assessments
4. Finding the Way in the Assessment Landscape: Developing an Effective Assessment Map
5. Growing a Shared Understanding and Collaborative Process using Qualitative Research Methods to Design a Learning Assessment Outcomes Reporting Tool
6. Hands on with Digital Communication!

Equity Responses:

• Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Culturally Responsive Assessment Practice

Case Studies:

• Colorado State University

DQP Case Studies:

1. Kansas City Kansas Community College
2. American Public University System

Occasional Papers:

1. Evidence-Based Storytelling in Assessment

Toolkits:

1. Building a Narrative via Evidence-Based Storytelling: A Toolkit for Practice
2. Planning for Effective Communication of Assessment: A Toolkit for Practice
3. Communicating Value: A Comprehensive Learner Record Toolkit

Additional Resources:

1. Excellence in Assessment Designation
2. Evidence-based story examples from Institutions and Organizations
3. Learning Improvement Community

Reports:

1. Helping Students Develop Habits of Reflection: What We Can Learn From the NILOA Assignment Library

Occasional Papers:

1. All-in-One: Combining Grading, Course, Program, and General Education Outcomes Assessment
2. Creating Student-Centered Learning Environments and Changing Teaching Culture: Purdue University’s IMPACT Program
3. Using ePortfolio to Document and Deepen the Impact of HIPs
   on Learning Dispositions
4. Pedagogical Choices Make Large Classes Feel Small
5. Improving Teaching, Learning, and Assessment by Making Evidence of Achievement Transparent
6. An Essential Partner: The Librarian’s Role in Student Learning Assessment
7. Equity and Assessment: Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment
   • Responses to NILOA’s 29th Occasional Paper
8. Evolving the Loop: The Role of ePortfolio in Building 21st Century Student Learning Outcomes

Assessment in Practice:

1. Assessment with Benefits: Faculty Engagement and Community Building through GE Assessment
2. Assessing General Education: Identifying Outcomes, Data Analysis, and Improvements
3. General Education at Delta College: Guided Conversations toward Relevant Assessment
4. Relationship between General Education Course Sequence and Student Success
5. Applying the RARE model to general education assessment: Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary groups of faculty

Toolkits:

1. Assignment Charrettes
2. Curriculum Mapping

Case Studies:

1. St. Edward’s University
2. McKendree University: 2016 Original & 2020 Update
3. Utah State University
4. Washington State University
5. LaGuardia Community College
6. Portland State University

Related Resources:

• General Education Assessment

Reports

1. Catalyzing Assignment Design Activity on Your Campus: Lesson’s from NILOA’s Assignment Library Initiative 
2. Assessment that Matters: Trending toward Practices that Document Authentic Student Learning
3. Tuning: A Guide for Creating Discipline-Specific Frameworks to Foster Meaningful Change
4. Using the Degree Qualifications Profile to Foster Meaningful Change
5. Unpacking Relationships: Instruction and Student Outcomes

Occasional Papers:

1. Creating Student-Centered Learning Environments and Changing Teaching Culture: Purdue University’s IMPACT Program
2. Assessment 2.0: An Organic Supplement to Standard Assessment Procedure
3. What Faculty Unions Say about Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
4. Student Outcomes Assessment Among the New Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Majority
5. Assessment and Academic Freedom: In Concert, not Conflict

Viewpoints:

1. Faculty Concerns About Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
2. Helping Faculty Use Assessment Data to Provide More Equitable Learning Experiences
3. Working Together to Define and Measure Learning in the Disciplines
4. Addressing Assessment Fatigue by Keeping the Focus on Learning
5. Getting Faculty on Board: Four Suggestions

Assessment in Practice:

1. An Assessment Fellows Program Model
2. Using Backward Design and the Assignment Design Charrette Model for Quality Enhancement
3. A College Where Adjuncts Are Not Just Add-ons
4. Coming in from the Wilderness: Using an Annual Faculty Symposium to Make Connections, Fête Excellence, and Build Capacity in Assessment

Toolkits

1. Assignment Charrettes

NILOA Case Studies:

1. St. Olaf College (Update)
2. McKendree University (Update)
3. Augustana College
4. Carnegie Mellon University
5. North Carolina A&T State University
6. St. Olaf College
7. Juniata College
8. Palo Alto College

Additional Resources:

1. Patricia Cross Academy Videos

Occasional Papers:

1. All-in-One: Combining Grading, Course, Program, and General Education Outcomes Assessment
2. Aligning Educational Outcomes and Practices
3. Assessment 2.0: An Organic Supplement to Standard Assessment Procedure
4. Technology Solutions to Support Assessment
   • Assessment Related Technologies
5. Using ePortfolio to Document and Deepen the Impact of HIPs on Learning Dispositions
6. Pedagogical Choices Make Large Classes Feel Small
7. Internships, Integrative Learning and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP)
8. Co-Designing Assessment and Learning: Rethinking Employer Engagement in a Changing World
9. Advances, Contributions, Obstacles and Opportunities in Student Affairs Assessment

Books:

• Degrees that Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm

Viewpoints:

1. The Interstate Passport: A New Framework for Transfer
2. Embedded Assessment and Evidence-Based Mapping: The Promise of Learning Analytics
3. The Comprehensive Student Record at Dillard University

Assessment in Practice:

1. Finding the Way in the Assessment Landscape: Developing an Effective Assessment Map
2. The Student Transformative Learning Record at the University of Central Oklahoma: A Commitment to Improving Student Learning
3. Designing & Aligning Learning Outcome Assessments for Academic Programs
4. Is This Thing On, or Am I Wasting My Time?: Using Faculty Development and Employer Engagement in Assessment
5. The Occupational Therapy Assistant Program: A Case Study

Toolkits

• Curriculum Mapping
  • Program Planning in a Time of COVID-19
  • Lincoln Memorial University’s College of Veterinary Medicine
  • University of Minnesota’s Active Learning Course Design

NILOA Case Studies:

1. McKendree University: 2016 Original & 2020 Update
2. Colorado State University
3. Capella University

Additional Resources:

1. Curricular Analytics
2. Conference Presentation: Map Your Way to a Quality Course

Occasional Papers:

1. Internships, Integrative Learning and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP)
2. The Role of Student Affairs in Student Learning Assessment
3. Using CAS as a Framework to Assess Holistic Learning
4. Mapping and Assessing Student Learning in Student Affairs
5. Documenting Learning: The Comprehensive Learner Record

Viewpoints:

1. The Comprehensive Student Record at Dillard University
2. Academic and Student Affairs Sides of the House: Can We Have an Open Concept Learning Design?
3. Student Learning Outcomes Alignment through Academic and Student Affairs Partnerships
4. Demonstrating How Career Services Contribute to Student Learning
5. The Neuroscience of Learning and Development: How can Evidence Legitimize Self-Reflection
6. Can Teaching Metacognitive Learning Strategies Counteract Student Stress, Anxiety, and Depression?

Assessment in Practice:

1. Connecting Student Employment to Student Learning & Development
2. Developing Systematic Assessment Practices for Administrative, Educational, and Student Support (AES) Units
3. The Development of a Student Affairs Assessment Structure
4. The Student Transformative Learning Record at the University of Central Oklahoma: A Commitment to Improving Student Learning
5. Measuring Student Learning in the Co-curricular: Developing an Assessment Plan for Student Affairs
6. An Outcomes Based Approach to Career Development

Toolkits

• Curriculum Mapping

Additional Resources:

1. Journal of Student Affairs
2. Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)
   • Student Affairs Assessment: Online Open Course
   • Student Affairs Assessment Leaders Blog
   • Student Affairs Assessment Leaders Dropbox Resource Folder
3. Student Affairs Strategic Plan Examples
   • University of Oregon Division of Student Life
   • NC State University Division of Academic and Student Affairs
   • Western Michigan University Student Affairs
   • Louisiana State University Student Affairs
   • The University of Texas at Austin Division of Student Affairs

Occasional Papers:

1. Creating Student-Centered Learning Environments and Changing Teaching Culture: Purdue University’s IMPACT Program
2. Equity and Assessment: Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment
   • Responses to NILOA’s 29th Occasional Paper
3. A Framework for Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships in Program-level Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

Viewpoints:

1. Real-time Student Assessment: Prioritizing Enrolled Students Equitable Progress toward Achieving a High-Quality Degree
2. Bringing Student Voices to the Table: Collaborating with our Most Important Stakeholders
3. Involving Undergraduates in Assessment: Documenting Student Engagement in Flipped Classrooms
4. Student Involvement in Assessment: A 3-Way Win

Assessment in Practice:

1. Actively Engaging Undergraduate Students in the Assessment Process
2. Developing Systematic Assessment Practices for Administrative, Educational, and Student Support (AES) Units
3. The Development of a Student Affairs Assessment Structure
4. The Student Transformative Learning Record at the University of Central Oklahoma: A Commitment to Improving Student Learning
5. Measuring Student Learning in the Co-curricular: Developing an Assessment Plan for Student Affairs
6. Implementing a Student Assessment Scholars Program: Students Engaging in Continuous Improvement
7. Bringing the Student Voice to Transparency: One Model and Three Tools
8. Assessing Basic Writers: Perceptions, Expectations, and Agency

Case Studies:

1. Alverno College
2. North Carolina A&T State University
3. Palo Alto College
4. Cornell University

Reports

1. Assessment that Matters: Trending toward Practices that Document Authentic Student Learning
2. Using Assessment Results: Promising Practices of Institutions that Do It Well

Occasional Papers:

1. From Gathering to Using Assessment Results: Lessons from the Wabash National Study
2. A Simple Model for Learning Improvement: Weigh Pig, Feed Pig, Weigh Pig

Books:

• Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education

Viewpoints:

1. Ignorance is Not Bliss: Implementation Fidelity and Learning Improvement
2. Making Assessment Count
3. Helping Faculty Use Assessment Data to Provide More Equitable Learning Experiences
4. Improvement Matters
5. Evidence of Student Learning: What Counts and What Matters for Improvement
6. Using Evidence to Make a Difference
7. Discussing the Data, Making Meaning of the Results

Assessment in Practice:

1. An Outcomes Based Approach to Career Development
2. Actively Engaging Undergraduate Students in the Assessment Process
3. Is This Thing On, or Am I Wasting My Time?: Using Faculty Development and Employer Engagement in Assessment

Case Studies:

1. McKendree University (Update)
2. North Carolina A&T State University
3. St. Olaf College
4. Capella University

Occasional Papers:

1. Documenting Learning: The Comprehensive Learner Record
2. Mapping and Assessment Student Learning in Student Affairs 
3. Working with Employers: Tips for Success
4. Co-Designing Assessment and Learning: Rethinking Employer Engagement in a Changing World

Toolkit:

1. Mapping Learning: A Toolkit
2. Communicating Value: A Comprehensive Learner Record Toolkit

Viewpoints:

1. The Comprehensive Student Record at Dillard University 
2. Demand Interoperability to Dramatically Improve the Educational Ecosystem

Assessment in Practice:

1. Connecting Student Employment to Student Learning & Development 
2. The Student Transformative Learning Record at the University of Central Oklahoma

Reports:

• Assessment that Matters: Trending toward Practices that Document Authentic Student Learning

Occasional Papers:

1. A Comprehensive Approach to Assessment of High-Impact Practices
2. Using ePortfolio to Document and Deepen the Impact of HIPs on Learning Dispositions
3. The Role of Student Affairs in Student Learning Assessment
4. Evolving the Loop: The Role of ePortfolio in Building 21st Century Student Learning Outcomes
5. IUPUI’s HIP Taxonomy for ePortfolio: A Tool for Development, Implementation, and Scaling

Toolkits:

• Mapping Learning: A Toolkit of Resources

Assessment in Practice:

• Assessing Learning Communities Based on Program Outcomes and the Eight Characteristics of High-Impact Practices

Viewpoints:

• Measuring Success in Internationalization: What are Students Learning?

Additional Resources:

1. NILOA Assignment Library
2. National Association of System Heads (NASH)
   • High Impact Practices: An Educator’s Guide
3. Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
   • High-Impact Educational Practices: A Brief Overview
4. Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
   • Taxonomies guiding the instruction of HIPs courses

Case Studies:

1. Point Loma Nazarene University 

Viewpoints:

1. Internships: Fertile Ground for Cultivating Integrative Learning
2. What is Satisfactory Performance? Measuring Students and Measuring Programs with Rubrics
3. Being Confident about Results from Rubrics
4. Putting Myself to the Test
5. Rubrics: Lessons from the Field

Additional Resources:

1. VALUE Rubrics
2. RAILS (Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills)
3. Rubistar
4. iRubric

Occasional Papers:

1. Co-Designing Assessment and Learning: Rethinking Employer Engagement in a Changing World
2. Internships, Integrative Learning and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP)
3. Mapping and Assessing Student Learning in Student Affairs
4. Working with Employers: Tips for Success
5. Documenting Learning: The Comprehensive Learner Record

Viewpoints:

1. Rethinking the Role of Work in Higher Education
2. Demonstrating How Career Services Contribute to Student Learning
3. Ethics and Assessment: When the Test is Life Itself
4. Internships: Fertile Ground for Cultivating Integrative Learning

Assessment in Practice:

1. Is This Thing On, or Am I Wasting My Time?: Using Faculty Development and Employer Engagement in Assessment
2. Digital Badges as Effective Assessment Tools
3. An Outcomes Based Approach to Career Development

Occasional Papers:

1. An Essential Partner: The Librarian’s Role in Student Learning Assessment
2. Creating Sustainable Assessment through Collaboration: A National Program Reveals Effective Practices

Viewpoints:

1. Collaborating for Individual and Institutional Success: Libraries as Strategic Campus Partners
2. Learning in Partnership

Assessment in Practice:

1. On the ‘Write’ Path to Student Learning: Library and Writing Center Collaboration
2. Hands on with Digital Communication!
3. Library PECConomics
4. Connecting Student Employment to Student Learning & Development
5. Outcome Measurement in Libraries: The Project Outcome Model

Additional Resources:

1. Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success
2. Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS)
3. Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Illinois:
   • Webinars and select resources on the Importance of the Library Dean/Director

Reports:

1. Down and In: Assessment Practices at the Program Level

Occasional Papers:

1. Program Review and Assessment for Continuous Improvement: Asking the Right Questions
2. The Seven Red Herrings About Standardized Assessments in Higher Education
3. All-in-One: Combining Grading, Course, Program, and General Education Outcomes Assessment
4. Using CAS as a Framework to Assess Holistic Learning

Viewpoints:

1. Working Together to Define and Measure Learning in the Disciplines
2. Ignorance is Not Bliss: Implementation Fidelity and Learning Improvement
3. The Tools of Intentional Colleges and Universities: The DQP, ELOs, and Tuning
4. Making Assessment Count

Assessment in Practice:

1. The PLAIR Pilot Project: Perspectives from BSc in Public Health and Nutrition, Zayed University
2. Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes Based on Institutional Core Values
3. Leading Enhancement in Assessment and Feedback at the University of Edinburgh
4. Designing & Aligning Learning Outcome Assessments for Academic Programs
5. Using Chocolate Chip Cookies to Develop a Rubric for Assessing Non-Academic Units
6. The Occupational Therapy Assistant Program: A Case Study
7. Data Pathways: Innovative Approaches to Visualizing Assessment Results

NILOA Case Studies:

1. Augustana College
2. Carnegie Mellon University
3. Colorado State University
4. LaGuardia Community College

DQP Case Studies:

1. Utah State University
2. Point Loma Nazarene University

Assessment Briefs:

• Faculty

Toolkit:

1. Evidence-Based Storytelling Toolkit
   • Planning for Effective Communication of Assessment: A Toolkit for Practice
   • Learning Improvement Community
   • Examples from Institutions and Organizations:
     • San Jose State University
     • The Virginia Assessment Group and James Madison University.

Reports:

1. Transparency & Accountability: An Evaluation of the VSA College Portrait Pilot
2. Exploring the Landscape: What Institutional Websites Reveal About Student Learning Outcomes Activities
3. Making Student Learning Evidence Transparent: The State of the Art

Books:

• Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education

Viewpoints:

1. Design for a Transparent and Engaging Assessment Website
2. Helping Faculty Use Assessment Data to Provide More Equitable Learning Experiences
3. What if the VSA Morphed into the VST?
4. The Culture Change Imperative for Learning Assessment
5. Comments on the Commentaries about “Seven Red Herrings”
6. Discussing the Data, Making Meaning of the Results
7. How Assessment and Institutional Research Staff Can Help Faculty with Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
8. Transparency Drives Learning at Rio Salado College
9. Avoiding a Tragedy of the Commons in Postsecondary Education

Assessment in Practice:

1. When the Call Comes, Keep Calm and Assess On: Using the EIA Designation Rubric as a Self-study for Improvement
2. The University of North Carolina System’s Adoption of the NILOA Transparency Framework
3. Growing a Shared Understanding and Collaborative Process using Qualitative Research Methods to Design a Learning Assessment Outcomes Reporting Tool
4. Bringing the Student Voice to Transparency: One Model and Three Tools

Case Studies:

1. Capella University
2. Augustana College

Assessment Perspectives Podcast:

• Ep. 1. Bridgewater State University’s Transparency Project

Other Resources:

1. Transparency Framework
2. Excellence in Assessment
3. Lesley D’Souza (Director, Strategic Storytelling & Digital Engagement, Student Experience at Western University)
   • Storytelling & Assessment Blog
   • Podcast: Secret Sauce of Storytelling, Higher Ed in Canada, #RyersonSA & Empathic Assessment
4. Kate McDowell (Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): A Storytelling Scholar Blog.

Occasional Papers:

1. Sharpening Our Focus on Learning: The Rise of Competency-Based Approaches to Degree Completion
2. Equity and Assessment: Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment
3. Assessment 2.0: An Organic Supplement to Standard Assessment Procedure
4. Documenting Learning: The Comprehensive Learner Record
5. The Need for Program Theory and Implementation Fidelity in Assessment Practice and Standards
6. Assessment Professional Development Competencies: Applications of the Assessment Skills Framework

Books:

• Degrees that Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm

Viewpoints:

1. The Neuroscience of Learning and Development: How can Evidence Legitimize Self-Reflection?
2. Where is Culture in Higher Education Assessment and Evaluation?
3. Demonstrating How Career Services Contribute to Student Learning
4. Ethics and Assessment: When the Test is Life Itself
5. Ensuring Fairness in Unprecedented Times: Grading Our Nation’s Students

Assessment in Practice:

1. Assessing Learning Communities Based on Program Outcomes and the Eight Characteristics of High-Impact Practices
2. The Student Transformative Learning Record at the University of Central Oklahoma: A Commitment to Improving Student Learning
3. Digital Badges as Effective Assessment Tools
4. Hands on with Digital Communication!
5. Escape! How to Build Faculty Assessment Teams Through the Use of Escape Rooms

Occasional Papers:

1. Connecting the Dots Between Learning and Resources
2. Valuing assessment: Cost-benefit considerations
3. What Are Institutions Spending on Assessment? Is It Worth the Cost?

Viewpoints:

1. College Ratings: What Lessons Can We Learn from Other Sectors?
2. What to Consider When Selecting an Assessment Management System

Assessment in Practice:

• Practice What You Preach

Case Studies:

• LaGuardia Community College

Reports:

• Using the Degree Qualifications Profile to Foster Meaningful Change

Books:

• Degrees that Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm

Viewpoints:

1. The Transformation of Higher Education in America: Understanding the Changing Landscape
2. Evidence of Student Learning: What Counts and What Matters for Improvement
3. Using Evidence to Make a Difference

Other Resources:

1. Learning Recognition Collaborative
2. Degree Qualifications Profile
3. Learning Frameworks: Tools for Building a Better Educational Experience

Reports:

1. NILOA at Ten: A Retrospective
2. Assessment that Matters: Trending toward Practices that Document Authentic Student Learning
3. Knowing What Students Know and Can Do: The Current State of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment in US Colleges and Universities
4. More than You Think, Less than We Need: Learning Outcomes Assessment in American Higher Education
5. Higher Education Quality: Why Documenting Learning Matters
6. Using Assessment Results: Promising Practices of Institutions that Do It Well
7. Institutional Assessment Practices Across Accreditation Regions

Occasional Papers:

1. Assessment, Accountability and Improvement
2. Tracing Assessment Practice as Reflected in Assessment Update

Books:

• Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education

Viewpoints:

1. NILOA Remembers Assessment Pioneer Sister Joel Read of Alverno College
2. Taking Stock of the Assessment Movement, Liberal Education, Winter, 2017
3. The Transformation of Higher Education in America: Understanding the Changing Landscape
4. Moving Beyond Anarchy to Build a New Field
5. AAHE Principles of Good Practice: Aging Nicely
   • AAHE Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
6. The State of Assessment of Learning Outcomes
7. Navigating a Perfect Storm
8. It is Time to Make our Academic Standards Clear
9. The slow pace of change: Two histories of teaching and learning in U.S. colleges and universities

Assessment in Practice:

• When the Call Comes, Keep Calm and Assess On: Using the EIA Designation Rubric as a Self-study for Improvement

Assessment Briefs:

1. History of Assessment
2. Student Affairs
3. Faculty

DQP Grids:

1. Associate’s Level
2. Bachelor’s Level
3. Master’s Level

Reports:

1. Tuning Impact Study: Developing Faculty Consensus to Strengthen Student Learning
2. Tuning: A Guide for Creating Discipline-Specific Frameworks to Foster Meaningful Change
3. Degree Qualifications Profile Impact Study: Framing and Connecting Initiatives to Strengthen Student Learning
4. Using the Degree Qualifications Profile
5. Roadmap to Enhanced Student Learning: Implementing the DQP and Tuning
6. Institution-Level Learning Outcomes: Where Are We Now? (February 2022)

Occasional Papers:

1. The Lumina Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP): Implications for Assessment
2. Internships, Integrative Learning and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP)

Books:

• Degrees that Matter: Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm

Viewpoints:

1. Eight Years On: Early – and Continuing – Lessons from the Tuning Project
2. Taking Stock of the Assessment Movement – Liberal Education, Winter, 2017
3. The Tools of Intentional Colleges and Universities: The DQP, ELOs, and Tuning
4. An “Uncommon” View of the Common Core
5. The DQP and the Creation of the Transformative Education Program at St. Augustine University
6. The State of Assessment of Learning Outcomes
7. It is Time to Make our Academic Standards Clear
8. In Search for Standard of Quality

Guest Authored Blogs:

1. The DQP and the Emphasis on Employability, Paul L. Gaston, Consultant to Lumina Foundation (June 2021)
2. With Democracy Under Siege, Civic Know-How Becomes Crucial, Carol Geary Schneider, President Emerita, AAC&U, Consultant, Lumina Foundation and Senior Advisor for Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement, College Promise (July 2021)
3. The DQP and Online/Asynchronous Instruction, Peter T. Ewell, NCHEMS and NILOA (August 2021)
4. The DQP, Transference of Knowledge, and the Importance of Reflection Amidst the Pandemic, Marilee Bresciani Ludvik, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, The University of Texas Arlington (February 2022)

Assessment in Practice:

• From the first Day of the First Class, to the Last Day of the Last Class: Ensuring a Pathway of Critical Core Skill Attainment for Community College Students

DQP Case Studies:

1. Daemen College
2. Utah State University
3. McKendree University
4. Point Loma Nazarene University
5. Kansas City Kansas Community College
6. University System of Georgia
7. American Public University System
8. National Louis University

DQP Resources:

1. General Education and/or Program Development and Review
2. Revision and Alignment of Learning Outcomes
3. Faculty and the Degree Qualifications Profile: Questions of Learning
4. Alignment with External Expectations
5. DQP Assignment Library
6. The Birth and Growth of the Degree Qualifications Profile (original version)
7. The Birth and Growth of the Degree Qualifications Profile (revised version, 2021)
8. Improving Student Transfer
9. SACSCOC Study: Making the Case for the Application of the Lumina Foundation’s Degree Qualifications Profile: A Pilot Study Among Historically Black Colleges and Universities 2012-2013
10. What’s changed since 2014? (one-pager on DQP 3.0 revisions)

Viewpoints:

1. Challenges and Opportunities in Assessing the Capstone Experience in Australia
2. Measuring Success in Internationalization: What are Students Learning?
3. Where is Culture in Higher Education Assessment and Evaluation?

Assessment in Practice:

1. The PLAIR Pilot Project: Perspectives from BSc in Public Health and Nutrition, Zayed University
2. Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes Based on Institutional Core Values
3. Leading Enhancement in Assessment and Feedback at the University of Edinburgh
4. Finding the Way in the Assessment Landscape: Developing an Effective Assessment Map

Equity Response:

• Culturally Responsive Assessment: A Missed Call for Italy?

Occasional Papers:

1. From Denial to Acceptance: The Stages of Assessment
2. Changing Institutional Culture to Promote Assessment of Higher Learning

Viewpoints:

1. Improvement Matters
2. Addressing Assessment Fatigue by Keeping the Focus on Learning
3. The Culture Change Imperative for Learning Assessment
4. AAHE Principles of Good Practice: Aging Nicely
5. The State of Assessment of Learning Outcomes
6. How Assessment and Institutional Research Staff Can Help Faculty with Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

Assessment in Practice:

• When the Call Comes, Keep Calm and Assess On: Using the EIA Designation Rubric as a Self-study for Improvement

Case Studies:

1. Capella University
2. Augustana College
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. LaGuardia Community College
5. North Carolina A&T State University
6. St. Olaf College