Institutional Assessment

Assessment News:

• 2023-2024 LU Assessment Dates
• 7th Annual Assessment Day at Lincoln University!  May 1, 2024
  

  The purpose of assessment day is to share assessment updates, provide learning opportunities to increase assessment skills and knowledge, provide support with assessment reporting, and ensuring that all academic programs, student support areas, and administrative units are in alignment with the University's mission, vision, and strategic plan.

Assessment Functions Include:

• Assisting academic and administrative departments in the development, analysis and interpretation of assessment strategies to meet the goals of defined learning outcomes;
• Facilitating comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the General Education program and institutional learning outcomes;
• Supporting faculty and staff in conducting effective program/unit reviews;
• Providing professional development and training opportunities for conducting effective and meaningful assessment;
• Coordinating all assessment activities at the University through the centralized support of an assessment and compliance management system.

Assessment Committees

• Assessment & Evaluation Committee
• General Education Committee (includes the Institutional Learning Outcomes)
• Student Success Assessment Committee
• Administrative Units Assessment Committee

Assessment Report Guides

• First Time User Login Instructions
• First Time User Login Video
• Assessment or Taskstream Training Request
• Taskstream Definitions and FAQs

Assessment Resources

• Academic Program Review
• Assessment Measures Workshop
• Assessment of Student Learning
• Bloom's Taxonomy:
  • Revised Example
  • Inverted Example
• Comprehensive Review Guidelines
• Learning Outcomes and Resources Workshop
• Measures: Direct/Indirect
• PSLO Revision
• Rubrics Workshop
• SMART Goals Workshop
• Thinking Routine Toolbox: This toolbox highlights thinking routines developed across a number of research projects at Project Zero (Harvard Graduate School of Education). A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking.

Additional Assessment Resources

• Assessment Institute Podcast: Leading Improvements in Higher Education
  https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/overview/podcast-episodes.html
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment:
  https://www.learningoutcomesassessment.org/
• Philadelphia Higher Education Assessment Leaders Consortium (PHEAL)

  https://drexel.edu/pheal/

• Research and Practice in Assessment
  

  https://www.rpajournal.com/

• Student Affairs Assessment Leaders
  http://studentaffairsassessment.org/
• Trends in Assessment – Resources
  https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu/trends/index.html

Consortiums

Lincoln University is a founding member of the Philadelphia Higher Education Assessment Leaders Consortium (PHEAL). Currently, the consortium’s website is hosted by Drexel University. The link below will provide you access to various assessment resources including the MSCHE revised standards, curriculum mapping techniques, program, and course level outcomes resources and tools for developing rubrics.

• http://drexel.edu/pheal/