These resources concern the development of assessment plans. See the chapter on PLANNING FOR SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING for actual plans.

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Guidelines for Assessment, California State University Chico, CA
These guidelines for assessment provide assistance in gathering, analyzing, and using evidence relating to the effectiveness of educational programs and support services.
A simple and effective student learning outcomes assessment plan that works.

A Program Guide for Outcomes Assessment at Geneva College
A PDF document that guide attempts to provide Geneva faculty a brief introduction to Outcomes Assessment (OA) processes and to provide a template that can be applied to all Geneva academic programs.

Western Carolina University Office of University Planning
Guides to developing an assessment plans for undergraduate academic programs and support units.

Ten Step Plan: Developing an Assessment Plan for Your Program, St. Cloud State University
From the National Center for Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment (NCTLA).

Assessment at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
The Assessment home page.

Evaluating Department Achievements: Consequences for the Work of Faculty, Jon F. Wergin, AAHE Bulletin, December 1999
Some colleges have learned how to change the program assessment process from a dreaded chore to a learning experience. Here are their strategies.

Developing an Assessment Plan to Learn about Student Learning, Peggy L. Maki, Director of Assessment, American Association for Higher Education
The Assessment Guide is designed to assist institutions conceptualize a plan that integrates assessment into their cultures so that over time assessment becomes systematic and organic practice.

Assessment at Slippery Rock University
One way to do assessment at the major/program level.

Principles of Assessment, Palomar College
The principles answer the questions, Why do Assessment? What is assessment? What is assessment for? What is assessment not for? Who will do assessment? How will we use assessment?

Select or Design Assessments that Elicit Established Outcomes
A readable ten-step plan for designing an assessment process

Concordia College Assessment Handbook
Information on departmental assessment plans, including suggestions on what should be included and advice on how to create an assessment plan. Details 8 steps to creating a departmental assessment plan.

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide for science, math, engineering and technology instructors.
The Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) web site was constructed as a resource for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) instructors. The site offers innovative assessment methods that emphasize deeper levels of learning and give instructors valuable feedback during a course.

COURSE-Based Review and Assessment: Methods for Understanding Student Learning
From the office of Academic Planning & Assessment University of Massachusetts Amherst
A PDF document that describes Course-Based Assessment and offers samples, worksheets and suggestions for interpreting and using results.

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group of AAHE.
The TLT Group, a nonprofit corporation, is the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Affiliate of AAHE. Its mission is to provide materials and services that motivate and enable institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change. See also What Outcomes Assessment Misses, (http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/outcomes.html) by Steve Ehrmann, on the roles of technology in assessment and learning, and a valuable discussion of the differences between assessing "uniform impacts" and "unique uses."

Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning Outcomes
This is Western Washington’s own summary of the issues involved in refocusing assessment toward the improvement of student learning.

Resources at Towson University
Guiding Principles for the Assessment of Student Learning
Towson University Assessment Process