About Us
The Academic Learning Outcomes Assessment (ALOA) Committee consists of faculty representatives from each school and Gumberg Library. We provide learning assessment support and resources through consulting, feedback on reports, faculty mini grants, workshops and book studies.
Whereas we focus largely on program-level learning assessment, in conjunction with the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), we also can provide resources for developing course-level tests and assignments.
ALOA meets on the second Tuesday of each month during the school year. Please contact your representative if you have questions or concerns that you would like to bring to our attention.
University AssessmentAssessment is most effective when it reflects an understanding of learning as multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time. Learning is a complex process. It entails not only what students know but what they can do with what they know; it involves not only knowledge and abilities but values, attitudes, and habits of mind that affect both academic success and performance beyond the classroom. Assessment should reflect these understandings by employing a diverse array of methods, including those that call for actual performance, using them over time so as to reveal change, growth, and increasing degrees of integration. Such an approach aims for a more complete and accurate picture of learning, and therefore firmer bases for improving our students' educational experience.
--AAHE, 9 Principles
