Improving Student Learning at Scale: A How-To Guide for Higher Education by Keston H. Fulcher and Caroline Prendergast. Stylus. 2021.

• Assessment Update, Volume 34, Issue 6, November/December 2022, with 5 articles on learning improvement.   Download/view the submitted versions of the Assessment Update articles as a PDF.

  • Worth The Squeeze: What Learning Improvement Is and Why It Matters by Jill Allison Kern, Jillian Kinzie, and Keston Fulcher 

  • Readiness for Learning Improvement: A Reflective Process by Linda Townsend, Pamela Tracy, and Jodi Fisler 

  • Structuring for Sustainability: Advice for the Learning Improvement Facilitator by Megan R. Good and Diane E. Boyd

  • Fostering Learning Improvement Projects: The Importance of Faculty Development and Reflection by Teresa Flateby, Scott Benson, and Kathleen Gorski

  • The Future of Assessment and Learning Improvement: Equity, Mindset, and Scholarship by Monica Stitt-Bergh, Christine Robinson, Mitchel L. Cottenoir, and Julie Bauer Morrison​​

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• Special issue on learning improvement, Research & Practice in Assessment. K. Busby and K. Fulcher, Editors. Volume 13, Winter 2018. Download the published issue (six articles)​

  • From the Editors by Katie Busby and Keston Fulcher

  • Bringing Together Assessment and Learning Improvement: Dreaming Big for an Inaugural Summit by S. Jeanne Horst and Allison J. Ames

  • The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: New Challenges to Using Evidence to Improve Student Learning by Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise

  • Why Assessment and Faculty Development Need Each Other: Notes on Using Evidence to Improve Student Learning by Michael Reder and Cynthia Crimmins

  • Considerations and Resources for the Learning Improvement Facilitator by Kristen L. Smith, Megan R. Good, and Natasha Jankowski

  • Refining an Approach to Assessment for Learning Improvement by Monica Stitt-Bergh, Jillian Kinzie, and Keston Fulcher

  • Example of a Program-Level Learning Improvement Report by Diane Lending, Keston Fulcher, Jeremy D. Ezell, Jeffrey L. May, and Thomas W. Dillon​

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• A Simple Model for Learning Improvement: Weigh Pig, Feed Pig, Weigh Pig by K. H. Fulcher, M. R. Good, C. M. Coleman, & K. L. Smith. National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, Occasional Paper, December 2014. Download the paper.

• Assessment with the Improvement of Student Learning as the End Goal  [Watch video] [Conference presentation] by J. Kinzie, M. Stitt-Bergh, N. Jankowski, K. Gorski, & K. Kirland, K. (2020, Oct 25-28). Assessment Institute 2020, online.

• Webinar series co-sponsored by The Center for Assessment and Research Studies at James Madison University, Virginia Assessment Group, Research & Practice in Assessment, and WeaveOnline. Watch the webinars (requires free registration with WeaveOnline)

  • Assessment Paper Pusher to Improvement Hero: The Journey Begins [Watch video]. Dr. Keston Fulcher, James Madison University and Dr. Megan Good, Auburn University

  • The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: New Challenges to Using Evidence to Improve Student Learning [Watch video]. Dr. Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise, The Center of Inquiry and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS)

  • Foregrounding Learning Improvement in Assessment [Watch video]. Dr. Monica Stitt-Bergh, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Dr. Jillian Kinzie, Indiana University Bloomington

  • Why Assessment and Faculty Development Need Each Other: Using Evidence to Improve Student Learning [Watch video]. Michael Reder,  Ph.D., Connecticut College and Cynthia Crimmins, M.S. Ed., York (PA) College

  • Considerations and Resources for the Learning Improvement Facilitator [Watch video]. Dr. Kristen Smith, UNC Greensboro and Dr. Natasha Jankowski, NILOA

  • Example of a Successful Program Improvement Effort [Watch video] Dr. Tom Dillon, Dr. Diane Lending, and Dr. Keston Fulcher, James Madison University

Listen to our two episodes on the Leading Improvements in Higher Education podcast hosted by Stephen Hundley, IPUI, which is a service of the Assessment Institute. 

s03e02: A Conversation with Contributors to a Special Issue of Assessment Update Focused on Learning Improvement

s02e05: A Conversation with Three Colleagues Representing the Learning Improvement Community