What does assessment mean in Learning Outcomes Assessment?
In higher education the term assessment traditionally has two components: gathering information in a prescribed manner (i.e., measurement) and interpreting that information to make decisions about policy, instruction, or assessment practices (i.e., evaluation). • What should we be assessing? We should be assessing what we as faculty have proclaimed as the major goals of our instructional programs, namely the knowledge, skills and values that students should master within our programs. These major outcomes would be aligned with course syllabus objectives.
