Assessment Resources
The Assessment Office is here to support your efforts! The list below provides resources for different assessment projects.
Messiah University Assessment Policies and Assessment Documents
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Assessment of Student Learning Manual —This manual provides an overview of Messiah’s approach to the assessment of student learning, including policies and expectations of campus departments.
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Assessment Resources — The Assessment Resources is a collection of helpful information for writing learning objectives, assessing learning effectively, and sharing assessment results.
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Assessment Rubric — This is the tool Messiah uses to evaluate the quality of each major/program’s assessment efforts.
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Assessment Plan Template Undergraduate — Departments creating majors/programs use this template to record the department’s plan to assess learning in the major/program on an ongoing basis.
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Assessment Plan Template Graduate — Departments creating majors/programs use this template to record the department’s plan to assess learning in the major/program on an ongoing basis.
Assessment Software Resources
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HellioCampus User Guide — This guide provides instruction for basic procedures that all Messiah faculty perform on our assessment software.
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HelioCampus Video Resources — Watch video tutorials on managing, editing, and viewing results of assessments in HelioCampus.
May Development Week
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Discussion Guide — This outline is designed to facilitate disucussions between department chairs/program directors and faculty as they work together to process assessment results in the spring.
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HelioCampus Video Resources — Watch the videos on assessment management and using reports to see step-by-step video tutorials in HelioCampus.
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End-of-Year Assessment Submission Examples — This document includes end-of-year assessment submission examples that highlight digging into results to identify specific learning needs, strengths and weaknesses in student performance, and results to discover academic support needs.