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Background Information: SLOs at the U of M Twin Cities

• Transform Article: What Do We Want Our Students to Learn?
• Transform Article: Student Learning Outcomes: Where Are We Now?
• 12/2007 TEL Seminar: Learning Outcomes, Assessment, and Technology
  • Direct link to the recording of the seminar

Accountability, Assessment, and Outcomes

• Measuring Up 2008 is the fifth in a series of biennial report cards that provide the general public and policymakers with information they can use to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state.
• The Teagle Foundation maintains a bibliography of articles on Assessment and Outcomes. Most of the items in the bibliography are linked to sites where the documents can be read.
• The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) released this framework for accountability (download PDF) in 2008.
• ETS' Culture of Evidence: Postsecondary Assessment and Learning Outcomes -- June 2006 (download PDF).
• The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College is leading the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, a large-scale, longitudinal study to investigate critical factors that affect the outcomes of liberal arts education.