These resources focus on the development of learning goals (from many different sources and methods) with lots of examples of goals from various courses, areas or programs, and types of institutions

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Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
A popular model for creating learning outcomes that goes beyond simple understanding, developed by Robert Marzano and others at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.

Teaching Goals Inventory online, University of Iowa Center for Teaching
Center for Teaching at The University of Iowa offers the. Here teachers can fill out the inventory with a few clicks and automatically see their scores. Score reports also contain comparative scores from large samples.

Designing Student Learning Outcomes, University of Washington
This site provides information to departments and faculty on designing student learning outcomes (SLO's).

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
This site lists the intended student learning outcomes for the baccalaureate degree and the senior assessment for each department.

Salisbury State Learning Principles
The general education program is designed to foster the personal, intellectual and social development of the Salisbury State student and is based on the following set of principles. The principles and goals represent the concepts embedded in the Salisbury State Mission Statement and the Attributes Document.

Georgia State University: Student Learning Goals for General Education
Georgia State University faculty developed a set of goals that addressed general education learning that should be a prerequisite to beginning study in any major. The goals of communication, analysis, critical thinking, and understanding of a larger world were thought to be essential for all students who were completing the core curriculum.

Alverno College Ability-Based Curriculum
Alverno's unique emphasis on learning the abilities needed to put knowledge to use -- commonly called "ability-based education" -- has gained national praise. The specific abilities identified by the faculty as central to their approach to liberal arts and professional education are described.

Department Assessment Plans, United States Naval Academy
Naval Academy Departments have developed assessment plans that begin with the statement of student learning goals.

Program and Department Assessment Plans, Boise State University
This site lists learning outcomes embedded in program and department assessment plans.

Dordt College Educational Goals
The Student Assessment Committee, in consultation with the General Education Committee, the Curriculum Committee, and the entire faculty, has chosen to focus on the goals which are a priority for the Dordt Community or which are the most concrete.

American Accounting Association: Outcome Assessment Committee Report (1992-93)
This report is intended to promote research and study of outcome assessments that can be used across a wide spectrum of institutions and programs.

Competencies for the New Practitioner
A listing of 120 skills in which dental students at Baylor must be competent at the time of graduation.

UMass Boston's Student Learning Goals
In 1997, the University of Massachusetts Boston adopted a general education program with common learning goals for all undergraduate students. This site provides an indepth look at UMASS Boston’s goals.

Student Learning Outcomes: A Faculty Resource on Development and Assessment
This site provides information to departments and faculty on designing and using student learning outcomes (SLO's). They can be written for individual courses or for academic majors and departments. Examples can be seen at UW Department Links.

Baccalaureate Writing Competency Test

Alabama State University
The purpose of the Baccalaureate Writing Competency Test is to ascertain that ASU students are able to write with proficiency in their degree areas before they graduate. It calls for students to write a sophisticated essay on a topic from their academic discipline. The essay is graded on organization, support, and sentence skills. The BWCT must be taken in the Junior year after completing 63 semester hours.

Baccalaureate Writing Competency Test for Computer Information 

Accounting

Teaching And Curricular Section Of The American Accounting Association (AAA)
Integrating Outcomes Assessment of Students with the Teaching Assessment Model
This site contributes to the development of accounting education outcome assessment to be used in a wide spectrum of institutions and programs. Includes definition of student-based objectives of effective teaching of the business and business-related disciplines.

Composition

Writing Program Administrators Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
This statement describes the common knowledge, skills, and attitudes sought by first-year composition programs in American postsecondary education

Business

Alabama State Univ., College of Business Administration
Description of instruments used in COBA's Student Outcome Assessment Program (SOAP).