Building Your Assessment Toolkit

The assessment of student learning is something more than a box to check off on the way to “passing accreditation.” Done well, it can strengthen institutional effectiveness and advance inclusive excellence, not only within Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), but across higher education more generally. This report seeks to address the question that inevitably arises when conceptualizing the assessment of student learning: How can institutions gather credible evidence of what students know and can do as a result of their college education?