START HERE: Download a copy of a PowerPoint presentation that will walk you through the ideas presented in our seminar (presented at NASPA regional and national conventions in 2002-2003).

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You can download supplemental handouts here as Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files.

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For another way of thinking of this task, comparing Assessment in Student Affairs to work as a faculty member, download a copy of this PowerPoint slide show.

BONUS LINKS: Below are links to rubrics that attempt to make quantifiable what are often considered "fuzzy" categories. These rubrics should help to serve as examples of answers to questions such as "what does that type of learning look like?" and "how much of that do we expect to see?"

The following link presents how such rubrics can be combined into one rubric to represent a particular program. It was designed for a pilot residence hall project at University of Rhode Island that was a self-regulating intentional community centered on social justice issues.

Justice House

NOTE: The criteria presented here were starting points for discussions; they do not necessarily represent fixed, transferable definitions outside the particular experience inside the programmatic mission of the residential life program at University of Rhode Island (where I designed them to address the mission of the "Freshman Village" program).

The link below shows another example of how multiple rubrics can work to assess a particular position, in this case, a resident director position. The rubrics were created in accordance with the job description at the University of Illinois at Chicago and what levels of competence the position required.

RD Rubric

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