Assessment Handbook

• Introduction
  • Characteristics of Assessment
  • Necessity of Assessment
  • Benefits of Assessment
  • Glossary

• Assessment at HCC
  • Future Direction
  • Flowchart of Assessment
  • Timeline
  • Evaluation
  • Principles
  • Grades and Assessment
  • Success and Retention

• Assessment of Learning Outcomes
  • Course Assessment
    • Course Outcomes
    • Verbs for Writing Outcomes Using Bloom
    • Assessment Instruments
    • Resources on Assessment
    • Evaluation Methods
    • Resources on Methods of Evaluation
    • Level of Achievement
    • Course Outcomes Matrix
    • Example of Completed Course Matrix
  • Program Assessment
    • Program Curriculum Map
    • Completed Program Curriculum Map
  • Institution-Wide Assessment
    • Institution-Wide Outcomes Matrix
    • Completed Institution-Wide Matrix
  • Reporting
    • Online Report of Outcome Assessment
    • Completed Online Reporting Form
  • Assessment Plan Checklist

Assessment at HCC

In 2000, the Assessment Committee, chaired by a part-time Assessment Coordinator, was formed under Teaching and Learning and charged with identifying student learning outcomes. When the Assessment Coordinator resigned in December 2004, no one directly worked on assessment efforts until July of 2005, when a full-time Director of Learning Outcomes and Assessment was hired. Since then, the focus on assessment has been aimed at modifying the existing plan and integrating student learning outcomes by connecting course outcomes in courses in transfer academic areas to institution-wide outcomes and course outcomes in required program courses to program outcomes .