Accrediting Bodies
	General Resources

Accrediting Bodies

Locating accrediting bodies
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)

U.S. Regional Accrediting Associations

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools: Commission on Higher Education (MSA-CHE)
New England Association of Schools and Colleges: Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (NEASC-CIHE)
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools: Higher Learning Commission
Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges: Commission on Colleges and Universities
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS): Commission on Colleges
Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)

Non-U.S.Quality Assurance/Academic Audit Agencies

Australian Universities Quality Agency
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (United Kingdom)

Specialized/Professional Accrediting Associations

Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES)
Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC)
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE) Provider Accreditation Program
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE)
Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB)
Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE)
Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)
Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE)
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology (JRCNMT)
National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS)
National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission (NLNAC)
National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA)
Society of American Foresters (SAF)
Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC)

General Resources

AAHE Assessment Forum,a program of theAmerican Association for Higher Education
Assessment and Accountability Forum
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Assessment and Evaluation Resources
Assessment in Higher Education
Assessment for Student Development Clearinghouse
Association for Institutional Research
APQC consortium benchmarking study: Assessing Learning Outcomes
American Productivity and Quality Center
Baldridge National Quality Program: Education Criteria
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)

Conferences: Lists of national and regional assessment conferences and workshops, maintained by:

• Lake Land College (scroll down to Other Workshops and Conferences)
  
• Illinois State University
  
• North Carolina State University: Undergraduate Academic Program Review
  

Distance Education

• Project ADEPT (Assessment of Distance Education Pedagogy and Technology)
  

Educational Testing Service (ETS)
ELAN: Experiential Learning Assessment Network

• Ethical Standards of AERA(American Educational Research Association).
  
• Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education, from the Joint Committee on Testing Practices.(pdf document)
  
• Code of Professional Responsibilities in Educational Measurement, from the National Council on Measurement in Education.
  
• Leadership Statement of Nine Principles on Equity and Educational Testing and Assessment,from theNorth Central Regional Educational Laboratory
  
• Position statement on writing assessment, from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
  

• From the TLT Group (Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group).
  
• Assessment tools (e.g., Flashlight Online; templates; study packages), training, external evaluation, and other forms of consulting to help institutions gather information to improve educational uses of technology.
  

Glossaries: Assessment Terms

• Assessment in Higher Education includes a list of glossaries.
  
• Assessment Terminology: A Glossary of Useful Terms.
  
• Assessment Terms,from Northern Illinois University.
  
• Beyond Confusion: An Assessment Glossary, from Association of American Colleges & Universities Peer Review..
  
• CRESST Assessment Glossary, from UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.FromCalifornia State University, Long Beach. Scroll down to Common assessment terminology.
  
• Dictionary of Student Outcome Assessment. Searcheable. From James Madison University.
  
• Glossary of Evaluation Terms and Teacher Evaluation Glossary from The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University.
  
• Glossary of Assessment Terms, from SUNY-Potsdam (pdf document).
  
• Glossary of Useful Terms,from the Massachussets Dept. of Education's System for Adult Basic Education (SABES).
  
• Vocabulary of Assessment, from St. Louis Community College.
  

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
Institutional support for enhancing student assessment
Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment
League for Innovation in the Community College: 21st Century Learning Outcomes Project
Measuring Up:State-by-state "report card" for higher education
National Assessment Governing Board

The National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) page has information about publications and services for assessment and other higher-education areas.

The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) page at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies has mostly K-12 material, including papers, technical reports, and links to related sites.

National Doctoral Survey
National Postsecondary Education Cooperative(NPEC)
National Survey of Student Engagement(NSSE)

Nationally Standardized Instruments

• Measuring Quality: Choosing Among Surveys and Other Assessments of College Quality. (pdf document)
  
• Communication, Leadership, Information Literacy, Quantitative Reasoning and Quantitative Skills (pdf document)
  
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Writing (pdf document)
  

Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation
SearchERIC.org
Service-Learning: The Home of Service-Learning on the World Wide Web.
SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers
Standards for Success
Template for Program Outcomes
TRIADS: Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Urban Universities Portfolio Project
VaNTH ERC Assessment & Evaluation Projects
Virginia Assessment Group
What does Research Say About Assessment?
What Outcomes Assessment Misses