Welcome to Assessment at Highline

Assessment is the process of identifying how well students are meeting the student learning outcomes, reflecting on our instructional strategies, and planning methods to improve both student learning and our teaching methods.

Managed by the faculty-led Assessment Committee, assessment of student learning is an ongoing process and involves all members of the Highline community.

Continuous assessment activities allow us to identify what our students are learning, and whether our teaching strategies are working. With that information we can adapt and improve our teaching techniques.

Documenting our assessment activities and sharing them with others on campus helps us all improve our teaching methods. This process can promote further conversations within departments, leading to informed curricular decisions.

It is important to note that assessment is also reflected in important work of Student Services.

Learn more about the Assessment Committee and its membership; and catch up on Highline assessment news with our quarterly newsletters.

Also, discover the ways the Assessment Committee is supporting the college in closing equity gaps.

How We Are Closing The Gap

What Does This Year’s 2023-2024 Assessment Look Like?

The 2023-2024 academic year is seeing the following changes and restarts:

• Highline has continued assessing student learning at the college-level, guided by our new Core Competencies . Discover more here.
• Program/Discipline Review has become the Program Improvement process and uses the Program Improvement Toolkit. This work is on hold for the moment as the progress of this process is reviewed and reimagined.
• Course-learning outcomes assessment in the assessment tool is on pause for the Fall and winter quarters (unless you are in the tenure track or applying for other tenure related milestones), All full-time faculty will resume completing individual, course-level assessments, using Canvas starting in the spring.

The Assessment Committee had the honor of presenting it at the Annual AAC&U Conference in January 2021, with a session titled “The Critical Role of Messaging in Implementing an Effective Student Learning Outcomes Process.”  You can watch the full session recording below.