Stakeholders interested in higher education, such as national, regional, and program ac
crediting organizations, define institutional effectiveness as the ability of an institution to …

Assessment in United States higher education has become very important in recent years.
Virtually all colleges and universities are now striving to prove through empirical evidence …

This paper aims to describe how the Florida State University Libraries used assessment
data with other campus partners to gain funding and resources for new initiatives. When …

This paper differentiates between student outcomes and student learning outcomes. The
former are accountability metrics that characterize institutional success in simple terms and …

Academic libraries face the challenge of attempting to evaluate student learning in the
library. In order to meet this challenge, academic libraries should design assessment …

T he national attention on assessment in education is here to stay. Teaching librar ians are
focusing on assessing student learning both to justify library instruction to stakeholders and …

This book discusses recent trends in outcomes assessment, examines how state
governments are reshaping the national discussion with higher education, and explains how …

In 2015, the Public Library Association (PLA, a division of the American Library Association)
launched Project Outcome, a free online toolkit designed to help public libraries understand …

A report on two invitational summits supported by a National Leadership Collaborative
Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of ACRL's Value of …

The assessment and accountability movements brought focus on campus to the
measurement of educational outcomes and quality—quality that is, in turn, defined by what …