Overview.

How to Initiate an Assessment Program (Jeffrey A. Seybert).

Assessing Student Achievement of Generic Knowledge Skills.

Using standardized measures.

Report on a Pilot Study to Evaluate the Validity of Standardized Tests as Measures of Student Learning (Joint Task Force of the Interinstitutional Committee of Academic Officers and State Board for Community College Education).

Assessing General Education Using a Standardized Test: Challenges and Successful Solutions (Jan A. Geesaman, Peter T. Klassen, Russell Watson).

The Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire (Gary R. Pike).

Using faculty-developed approaches.

The Effects of the Cross-Angelo Model of Classroom Assessment on Student Outcomes: A Study (Michelle L. Kalina, Anita Catlin).

Assessing Employer Needs Through the Use of Focus Groups (Sara M. Morris).

The Butler County Community College Individualized Student Assessment Pilot Project (Phil Speary).

Combining standardized and faculty-developed approaches.

Assessing Learning Communities (Charles L. Van Middlesworth).

Assessing Additional Elements of the Community College Mission.

Transfer.

A New Paradigm for Evaluating Transfer Success (Michael Quanty, Richard Dixon, Dennis Ridley).

Vocational-technical education.

Corporate Partnership Student Assessment: The Owens Community College Experience (David H. Devier).

Developmental education.

Closing the Feedback Loop: How an Outcomes Assessment Instrument Has Led to Positive Curricular Reform (Diane K. Chaddock).

Assessing Institutional Effectiveness.

A Glimpse of Community and Technical College Students’ Perceptions of Student Engagement (Judith A. Ouimet).

Has the Time Come for National Benchmarking for Community Colleges? (Jeffrey A. Seybert).

The Wisconsin Technical College System Institutional Effectiveness Model (Donald Bressler, Deborah Mahaffey).