Pre- and post-testing
Direct measures of student learning
- Senior capstone experience
- Simulation project
- Senior research paper
- Oral examination
- Portfolio
- Commercial, standardized tests (e.g., Major Field Achievement Test)
- Performance on national licensure, certification or professional exams (e.g., PRAXIS)
- Locally developed tests
- Essay questions blind scored by faculty
- Juried review of comprehensive senior projects
- Externally reviewed exhibitions and performances in the arts
- External evaluation of internship performance
Indirect measures of student learning
- Alumni, employer, and student surveys (including student satisfaction surveys)
- Exit interviews of graduates and focus groups
- Graduating Senior Questionnaire self-ratings of proficiency
- Follow-up studies of graduates
- Job placement and graduate/professional school admissions data
*Lopez, C. L. (1996). "Opportunities for improvement: Advice from consultant-evaluators on programs to assess student-learning." North Central Accreditation, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (staff paper).