Program Assessment Websites

http://placement.amatyc.org/
The Placement and Assessment Committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges maintains a website that includes assessment examples, links, and other assessment tools for Classroom, Course, and Program Assessment of the first two years of mathematics.  Particular emphasis is given to assessment resources for two-year college mathematics educators.

http://placement.amatyc.org/digprodform.html
This website, hosted by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, provides a form for two-year college mathematics educators to submit examples of assessment of student learning outcomes at the Class, Course, and Program levels.  Consider using this form to share your models of good assessment practices.

http://online.bakersfieldcollege.edu/courseassessment/
This website is hosted at Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA. The site includes nine (9) sections that range from background and rationale for assessment to distinguishing between course and program assessment.  While the site is generic, it is tailored for two-year college faculty members who have committed to use student learning outcomes assessment to improve courses and programs.  A section on using rubrics to assess student learning may be particularly useful for mathematics programs desiring to write and use rubrics to assess students’ ability to write mathematics and other student learning that lends itself to qualitative assessment.

http://online.bc.cc.ca.us/courseassessment/Section_2_Background/Section2_7Bloom's.htm
This website is a page of the Bakersfield College website shown above. It has particular emphasis on the use of Bloom’s taxonomy for key verbs related to each of the levels of learning in the taxonomies.

http://www.sunynassau.edu/administration/oir/publications/assessmentmanual/assessment_manual.pdf
At this Nassau Community College (NY) website can be found an excellent example of an assessment manual.  The manual is comprehensive and includes models for classroom, course, and program assessment.

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/about/orp/assessment/FAQ.html#Anchor-35326
This website hosted by Maricopa Community Colleges (AZ) includes some examples of student learning outcomes for the program level.  Also included are examples of student learning outcomes for developmental mathematics programs.

http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html?src=qc
This U.S. Department of Education website defines the goal of accreditation from the viewpoint of the U.S. Department of Education. It also provides an overview of accreditation and gives a listing of all accrediting agencies, including the regional accrediting agencies.

http://www.bhsu.edu/writingcenter/FacultyResources/HowtoWriteaProgramAssessment/tabid/1827/Default.aspx
Black Hills State University (SD) hosts this website that gives clear definitions and steps for writing program outcomes. While the instructions provided may be specific to this particular institution, they reflect good assessment practices as outlined in the 9 Principles of Good Assessment Practices.

http://www.maa.org/saum/nat_meetings.html
This website, Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics, is hosted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and includes a self-paced online workshop on assessment, case studies of assessment work in two- and four-year colleges, guidelines for assessing student learning, assessment links and answers to 32 frequently asked questions about assessment.

http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/accreditation_pg7.html#RegionalInstitutional
Descriptions and contact information for each of the six regional institutional accrediting agencies can be found at this U.S. Department of Education website.

http://www.maa.org/saum/cases/johnson-berg-heddens1105-saum.pdf
This document describes a program-level assessment process in mathematics at Arapahoe Community College.