Listserves for Assessment

Listservs for Assessment

1. On the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign website: subscribe to an open discussion list about assessment. Email posts to the list are distributed to all subscribers. Archives are often available. To subscribe, send the following one line message to the email address: subscribe assess ([email protected]) a. http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/assess.html - can look at past archives

2. Launched in 2003 by the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges and the Center for Student Success. Provides a forum for discussing effective and practical ways of using assessment for improving student learning while meeting new WASC Accreditation Standards. Furthermore, each week moderators will e-mail participants short presentations and/or summaries of participants’ comments on an important issue in assessment. Initial topics planned are: a. Developing course-level learning outcomes b. Assessing course-level learning outcomes c. Integrating course-level assessment with department/program practice d. Developing and assessing program-level learning outcomes e. Developing a simple and effective assessment system f. Assessing the impact of student services on learning To join the Listserv, please send and e-mail to [email protected] without a subject line. In the body of the e-mail, type : subscribe Learning Assessment

3. FYA-List a. Topic: evaluating student’s experiences and success in the first year of college b. Listserver: [email protected] (University of South Carolina) c. Website includes: (http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/listserv/index.htm) i. archived discussions, ii. invited essays from area experts, iii. information about assessment instruments and tools d. See also Brevard Colleges Guidelines for evaluating the first year experience. (http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/publications/guidelines.htm)

4. Assess-W a. Topic: assessing writing b. Listserver: [email protected] (University of Louisville). Subscribe with the following command in the body of the email: SUBSCRIBE ASSESS-W

5. Portfolio-L a. Topic: portfolio assessment b. Listserver: [email protected] (Kalamazoo College) with the following command in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE PORTFOLIO-L 6. EVALTALK a. Discusses evaluation and associated issues; many of the threads are relevant to assessment practitioners. The list is open for use by anyone. To subscribe, send a message to [email protected] with the following command in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE EVALTALK YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME

7. http://ahe.cqu.edu.au/discussion_lists.htm - gives a list of listservs regarding educational issues, as well as how to join.