This presentation focused on ways that campuses can generate evidence to answer the critical question, “How well are our students learning?” The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is collecting and analyzing examples of how campuses can assess and improve student learning along the full spectrum of liberal education outcomes. Through the use of faculty-developed rubrics that articulate robust and progressively more challenging criteria for judging student work, the complexity and richness of learning can be captured. A parallel project is investigating how e-portfolios can contribute to this process.

Presenters: Terrel Rhodes, Vice President, Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment; Ross Miller, Senior Director of Assessment for Learning, Association of American Colleges and Universities