External Assessment Resources

Assessment Links

General Links

• ERIC: The Education Resources Information Center
  http://www.eric.ed.gov/
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  http://chronicle.com/

Accreditation and Standards

• SACS : Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
  http://www.sacs.org/
• CAS: The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education
  http://www.cas.edu/

Student Affairs Assessment

• ACPA: American College Personnel Association
  http://www.myacpa.org
• NASPA: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
  http://www.naspa.org/

Assessment Offices at Other Institutions

• Appalachian State University
  http://assessment.appstate.edu/index.php
• Bowling Green State University
  http://bgsu.edu/offices/ir/
• Indiana State University
  http://www.indstate.edu/studentaffairsresearch/
• Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
  http://imir.iupui.edu/imir/default.htm
• Longwood College
  http://www.longwood.edu/studentaffairs/12395.htm
• North Carolina State University
  http://www.ncsu.edu/student_affairs/saparr/
• Ohio State University
  http://studentaffairs.osu.edu/sa_assessment.asp
• Old Dominion University
  http://www.odu.edu/ao/ira/assessment/
• Texas A&M University
  http://studentlifestudies.tamu.edu/
• University of California - Davis - Student Affairs Research and Information
  http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/onepageofficesummary.pdf
• University of Maryland - College Park
  https://www.irpa.umd.edu/
• University of Michigan
  http://www.umich.edu/~rsa/
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  http://www.uncc.edu/stuaffairs/research.htm
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  http://studentaffairs.uncg.edu/assessment

Resources: Good Practice

• Assessment Tips for Student Affairs Professionals
  http://www.myacpa.org/comm/profprep/journals.cfm

Resources: Student Affairs Journals

• ACPA Commission XII : List of Journals Related to Student Affairs
  http://www.acpa.nche.edu/comms/comm12/journals.htm

Resources: National Instruments

• CIRP: The Cooperative Institutional Research Program
  http://www.heri.ucla.edu/cirpoverview.php
• NSSE : National Survey of Student Engagement
  http://nsse.iub.edu/
• YFCY: Your First College Year
  http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/yfcy/

Resources: Planning and Analysis Resources

• North Carolina State University
  http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
• Rubrics: AACU VALUE Project
  http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/

Resources: Reading List

• North Carolina State University
  www.ncsu.edu/undergrad_affairs/assessment/resources/
  assessment_library_catalogue.pdf

Resources: Research

• UGA’s Office of the Vice President for Research - IRB Resources
  http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/about
• AIR Association for Institutional Research
  http://www.airweb.org
• Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment (North Carolina State University)
  http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm

Resources: Research Methods

• The Web Center for Social Research Methods
• http://www.socialresearchmethods.net

Resources: Statistics

• ASA Survey Research Methods Section
  http://www.amstat.org/sections/SRMS/
• Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources
  http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html
• Statistics.com
  http://www.statistics.com/

Resources: Style Guides

• APA Style
  http://www.apastyle.org/
• Chicago Style
  http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

Resources: At the University of Georgia

• OIR: Office of Institutional Research
  http://www.uga.edu/irp/
• Institutional Effectiveness
  http://www.uga.edu/effectiveness/
• Human Subjects IRB: Institutional Review Board
  http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/hso/
• Academic Computing Center
  http://www.coe.uga.edu/acc/

Resources: Other

• U.S Census Data
  http://www.census.gov/
• U.S. Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/index.html

Research Grants & Funding

NASPA Foundation
http://www.naspa.org/fdn/grants.cfm

The Foundation Center
http://fdncenter.org/

UGA Parents & Families Association
http://www.alumni.uga.edu/pfassociation/grants.php

UGA Contracts and Grants Division
http://www.busfin.uga.edu/contracts_grants

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