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Faculty Resources for Improving Student Learning
APUS faculty employ a variety of methods to assess student learning outcomes. There are a great number of resources that can help us assess and promote student learning. This page lists resources that are of special use or interest to faculty. If you don't find what you are looking for, or would like to contribute other resources, contact Dr. Jennifer Stephens, Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, jstephens@apus.edu.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives is a way of expressing different types of thinking in a qualitative manner. It is used as a classroom planning tool and is one of the most universally applied models across all levels of schooling and in all areas of study. The major idea of Bloom’s taxonomy is to assist in establishing what educators want their students to be able to know or do upon completion of a course and/or program. The taxonomy chart presented here represents a hierarchy of sample verbs from less to more complex at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Teaching Goals Inventory
The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment of instructional goals developed by Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross in Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. Its purpose is three-fold: (1) to help professors become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual courses; (2) to help faculty locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussion of teaching and learning goals among colleagues. This is a great resource that should be used when developing a new course, revising a course, or participating in a curriculum review
Higher Learning Commission
The Higher Learning Commission provides documents that focus on student learning outcomes and assessment, and they represent the standard to which APUS is currently held. These documents also clarify exactly why the Learning Outcomes Assessment Council and Director require the information in the degree program assessment plans and why the help of faculty, staff, and students in conducting assessment activities is frequently requested.
Assessment Glossary
The following document lists definitions and terms of assessment that you will find helpful in assessing and promoting student learning.
Assessment Links
The following Website, run by the University and Planning Analysis office at North Carolina State University, is the premier source for web links related to higher education outcomes assessment. Many of the pages on this list have links to other resources and to each other. The links are annotated with brief descriptions, so you can use your browser's Find (Ctrl-F) function to locate information about a particular topic.
Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment
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