Welcome to the UConn Assessment web site!

Eric P. Soulsby, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Provost

Information contained in these web pages should be a helpful introduction to assessment. The menu items at the left lead to web pages displaying information on assessment of student learning as well as providing links to additional documents and web resources. Links to Adobe® Reader®-viewable Portable Document Format documents are indicated by underlined text followed by the Adobe® PDF icon. Much of the web page material is provided in the Assessment Notes document (143 page  ) available via clicking on the link here and also found in the Resources section.  Adobe® Reader® may be obtained by clicking here.

“Assessment is essential not only to guide the development of individual students but also to monitor and continuously improve the quality of programs, inform prospective students and their parents, and provide evidence of accountability to those who pay our way.”
-- Redesigning Higher Education: Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning by Lion F. Gardiner; ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Volume 23, No. 7, p. 109

“Educational assessment seeks to determine how well students are learning and is an integral part of the quest for improved education.  It provides feedback to students, educators, parents, policy makers, and the public about the effectiveness of educational services.”
-- Knowing what students know: the science and design of educational assessment Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, Center for Education, Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council; James Pellegrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser, editors, p. 1