The ODA Assessment Team primarily supports program- and institution-level assessment and is not the only assessment resource for interested faculty and staff. This page outlines various assessment resources within and outside the CU Bolder community.

  • The Center for Teaching and Learning:聽The Center for Teaching and Learning was established July 1, 2019 and supports CU teachers (faculty and graduate students).聽It is a centralized community hub dedicated to developing and supporting a campus-wide community for effective teaching practice.聽For support improving teaching, curriculum development, or assessing course-level student learning outcomes, contact the Center for Teaching and Learning. For support in creating or assessing program-level student learning outcomes, contact the Assessment Team in the Office of Data Analytics.
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Program: Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (FTEP), now part of the Center for Teaching and Learning, strategically supports the 彩民宝典 faculty and postdoctoral scholars in implementing the most effective, evidence-based classroom practices to promote聽student learning.
  • Center for STEM Learning (CSL) - Assessment Resources: The CSL, housed in the聽Graduate School,聽integrates more than聽75 programs and projects聽in STEM education. Many of these programs are nationally recognized and replicated.
  • Departmental Action Team (DAT) Project: A Departmental Action Team (DAT) is a working group that aims to sustainably improve undergraduate education. DAT participants identify an educational issue of importance in their department, with the aim of making sustainable changes and shifting departmental culture.
  • Teaching Quality Framework (TQF):聽The Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) initiative facilitates departmental and campus-wide efforts to provide a richer evaluation of teaching and reward scholarly approaches to teaching assessment. The TQF team will work with interested departments to develop and adopt a new framework for effective teaching practice.
  • Center for Assessment, Design, Research and Evaluation (CADRE):聽CADRE staff collaborates with university departments,聽state agencies, districts, schools and聽other organizations to investigate the effects of programs and interventions on student learning and to improve upon assessment practices and design.

  • : NILOA鈥檚 primary objective is to discover and disseminate ways that academic programs and institutions can productively use assessment data internally to inform and strengthen undergraduate education, and externally to communicate with policy makers, families and other stakeholders. An especially helpful area of the NILOA site may be the webpage which includes a collection of open-access resources introducing the basics of assessing student learning. It is a recommended starting point for those who might be exploring the field of assessment for the first time.
  • :聽The聽Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE)聽is an organization of practitioners interested in using effective assessment practice to document and improve student learning.
  • AAC&U VALUE Rubrics: Sample rubrics to assess learning

There are many exciting projects and resources at 彩民宝典. If you think we are missing an important resource, let us know by reaching out through our online contact form.