Getting Started With Assessment

• CUPM Guidelines for Assessment
• Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics (HTML) (PDF), Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  This is a background paper for the CUPM Guidelines for Assessment, illustrating the attitudes toward and circumstances surrounding assessment in 1991.
  • Appendix: Toward Assessment Worthy of the Liberal Arts: The Truth May Make You Free, but the Test May Keep You Imprisoned. (HTML) (PDF), Grant Wiggins, Consultants on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure.
• Assessing Assessment, Lynn Authur Steen, St. Olaf College
• Assessment and the MAA, Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• Assessment: The Burden of a Name, Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• PowerPoint presentation on assessment and the SAUM project.
  Titled: Assessment of Learning: What is it and Why is it Important?
  This presentation is for use in introducing others to assessment and the SAUM project. Please use in this way if needed.
• "Get Real!" Assessing for Quantitative Literacy (HTML) (PDF), Grant Wiggins, Consultants on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure.
  An informed view of the difficulties of finding authentic assessment items for assessing quantitative literacy.
• Ken Houston: Assessing Undergraduate Mathematics Students (HTML) (PDF)
• The Four A's: Accountability, Accreditation, Assessment, and Articulation.
• Indicators of Quality Undergraduate Mathematics Education