Assessment Tools

Washington and Lee University Accreditation and Institutional Research Academic Program Assessment Assessment Tools
Accreditation and Institutional Research

These resources support programs at every stage of the assessment cycle — from writing your first SLOs to making meaningful changes to your curriculum.

Assessment Plan

Mission and Goals

Define the values and goals of your program, the foundation from which everything else follows.

Crafting Learning Outcomes

Write specific, measurable SLOs using best practices and examples.

Curriculum Mapping

See where students develop each outcome and identify where to collect assessment data.

Assessment Measures

Choose methods that give you geniune evidence of learning, including rubrics for scoring student work.

Collecting and Using Assessment Results

Analyzing Results

Interpret your data and structure a faculty conversation around your findings.

Making Changes

Connect findings to specific improvement ground in the assessment data.