Office of Academic Affairs
Assessment
Resources
Assessment Resource Links
- Association
of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
- http://www.aacu.org
- A good site for assessment and general education
- Center
for Student Success
- http://css.rpgroup.org/
- Learn what other are doing well in the areas of Student Sucess, Diversity, Teaching & Pedagogy, Learning Assessment, Planning, and Evaluation
- Council
for Aid to Education (CAE) a subsidiary of RAND
- http://www.cae.org
- Last spring, SPU participated in a pilot study of Value Added Assessment Project.
- An article about the study is at http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp02/pr-sp02feature2.cfm
- Council
for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU)
- http://www.cccu.org
- SPU participates in the CCCU Comprehensive Assessment Project (CAP)
- http://www.cccu.org/projects/assessment/
- Council
for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
- http://www.chea.org
- Council for Higher Education Accreditation: database of good practices
- http://www.chea.org/good-practices/
- Higher
Education Research Institute (HERI)
- http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html
- SPU participates in the CIRP Freshman Survey and College Student Survey.
- http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/cirp.html
- National
Survey of Student Engagement
- http://www.indiana.edu/~nsse/
- SPU has participated in this study for the past few years.
- Teaching
Goals Inventory
- http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi/index.html
- The Teaching Goals Inventory is a self-assessment of instructional goals
Accreditation Links
- Northwest
Association of Schools and Colleges and Universities (NASCU)
- http://www.nwccu.org/
- This is the accrediting body for Seattle Pacific University
- Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)
- American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
- http://www.aamft.org/index_nm.asp
- The MFT Program recently received secondary accreditation with this organization.
- American
Dietetics Association (ADA)
- http://www.eatright.org/
- The Dietetics program receives secondary accreditation through this association.
- American
Psychological Association (APA)
- http://apa.org/
- The School of Psychology, Family and Community is in the process of gain secondary accreditation with APA.
- Association
to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – International
(AACSB)
- http://www.aacsb.edu/
- The School of Business and Economics receives its secondary through this organization.
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
- http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation/index.htm
- Through the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- National
Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
- http://www.arts-accredit.org/nasm/nasm.htm
- SPU’s Music program receives secondary accreditation from this organization.
- National
Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE)
- http://www.ncate.org/
- Secondary accreditation body for the School of Education.