Overview of designing outcome measures

Adapted from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Program-Based Review & Assessment Tools & Techniques for Program Improvement,” (April 2017) and from Marymount University Assessment Handbook (2015)

Now that you have identified the courses or experiences within which you will assess student learning (courses that you can use “direct measures” in and that are “at or near the end of the program”), it is time to adapt current assignments, tests, etc. into outcome measures, or develop new assignments into outcome measures within that course or experience.