In October 2010, UCSB designated the History Department one of 3 departments on campus to pilot the creation of assessment tools–ways of measuring how well we as faculty teachers meet our stated goals.
What follows are links to some resources that can help the dept. committee charged with developing metrics.
Links to 14 college and institutional history assessment documents, compiled by the College of Wooster (scroll down to History).
Oct. 2010 AHA Perspectives has two articles about assessment (both only for members at this time, Oct. 2010):
“Rubrics for History Courses: Lessons from One Campus“
“Articulating Learning Outcomes in History: Lessons Learned in Indiana“
The abstracts of these articles have further links, including a March 2009 Forum on Assessment, but it doesn’t seem to be available online. (Who has a hard copy?)
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