The University of Toledo

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Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning.  It involves:

• making our expectations explicit and public
• setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality
• systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards
• using the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance

When it is embedded effectively within larger institutional systems, assessment can help us:

• focus our collective attention
• examine our assumptions
• create a shared academic culture dedicated to assuring and improving the quality of higher education

(Thomas A. Angelo, AAHE Bulletin, November 1995, v.48, n.3, p.7)