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ACCJC
(Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges) of WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) -- Click on Core Documents and Publications (towards the top of the screen). Download the Guide to Evaluating Institutions, which includes "Questions to Use in Institutional Evaluation" (see p. 11+)

Quality Internet Resources -- Assessing Student Learning, from College & Research Libraries News, May 2004.

Conferences California Assessment Institute (CAI) The CAI gathers together expertise in assessment, and sponsors training and conferences. Check their conference schedule at the CAI Web site.

Academic Senate For California Community Colleges -- Paper on Accreditation Standards

Cabrillo Efforts
Student Learning Outcomes and Instructional Planning: A Work Book -- by Marcy Alancraig
Learning Outcomes Assessment and Accreditation at Cabrillo. This is the primary Web site.
Accreditation Count down to 2007 Who's on the main committee? What's the timeline?
Core 4 at Cabrillo

Examples of materials and efforts at a variety of colleges
Other Selected Community Colleges
Community colleges in California that are using the new Standards for accreditation purposes:

Other community colleges that emphasize student learning outcomes:
Alverno College Ability-based curriculum
Madison Area Technical College Core Ability Assessment Program.
Prince George's Community College Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee

CSUs 
CSU Monterey Bay University Learning Requirements
Student Learning Outcomes in the CSU
Assessment at SJSU
Integration of Learning Outcomes from CSU

Summaries and National Resources
Assessment Forum from the American Association for Higher Education
Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment from North Carolina State; links to lots of resources. Seems to be kept up to date.
Learning College Project: Lessons Learned from the League for Innovation in the Community College. These "lessons learned" are from 3 staff members who visited the 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges which had gotten support for participationg in the Learning College Project. Interesting stuff.

Overall guidance
9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning  From the American Association for Higher Education


How to get to this page on this Internet: Go to www.topsy.org and you'll find a link to this Student Learning Outcomes page in the middle column. There is also a link at http://www.cabrillo.edu/~tsmalley/ (second item from top)


Topsy N. Smalley    Last revised 11/23/04

Cabrillo College's Learner Outcome Handbook (published Spring 2000)