This page provides links to other pages on the Internet dealing with
higher education scholarship on teaching, learning, and assessing.
These sites have proliferated over the last few years, some originating
outside the U.S., further indicating the widespread interest in
this critical area of educational research. Many of these are, themselves,
linking sites that provide access to the more specific sites housed
in universities, colleges, government policy, and research centers.
As a professional association, AERA operates as a primary link to educational
research across the spectrum-from early childhood to education in the professions.
AEA is a professional association for evaluators across service and
discipline areas. The site serves as a portal to the organizations, its publications, and member groups, one of which focuses on higher education assessment.
The American Association for Higher Education home page, providing an
overview of its extensive activities and upcoming conferences, summaries from key studies, and access to its publications.
Within the ERIC assessment and evaluation site, this page provides links
to Internet sites with significant focus on higher education inquiry, particularly in assessment and evaluation.
AME is a scholarly organization for the interchange among researchers, educators, and related professional focusing on moral dimensions of development.
The Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) functions
much like ASHE, providing a means of communication among scholars, policy makers, and other professionals who conduct or use research
in postsecondary education. It primary operations involve dissemination thorough publication and learned meetings.
An organization that grew out of Andrew Carnegie's serious concerns
for the importance of teaching—as a practice and a profession—the Foundation is composed of a group of distinguished scholars providing
organization and guidance to an expanding number of studies in teaching, learning, and assessing in higher education.
At Boston College, a Jesuit institution, the Center for International Higher Education is dedicated to the thoughtful analysis of higher
education issues, particularly in the context of international and global exchange. Its home page provides access to reports and articles,
discussions of recent Center initiatives, and an on-line journal, International Higher Education.
This site is managed through the educational indexing service, ERIC, as a clearinghouse for balanced information on educational assessment,
evaluation, and research methodology. One of its largest sections deals with higher education assessment and evaluation.
FIPSE is a funding initiative authorized within the US Department of Education to address research and improvement opportunities in higher education.
The site provides information on funding programs and proposal processes as well as access to numerous project reports, reviews of promising practices, and issue papers.
HERDSA is the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia. Its broad concerns are in bringing together the range of participants
concerned with improvement of teaching, learning, and policy in higher education. Its site acts as an index to various papers, initiatives,
and curriculum materials, as well as a link among professionals engaged in similar inquiries and a schedule of upcoming conferencesin the Pacific Rim.
The Institute is primarily a conference-based organization that presents an annual meeting at which a range of scholars and educators address
current issues pertaining character education; in this process, it also serves as forum for communication among those who want to
explore effective ways to promote civic education and ethical development of college students.
Located within the University of Maryland University College, IRAHE addresses the generation of knowledge that will contribute to making improvements
in higher education, while helping UMUC and other institutions evaluate promising changes. The site provides access to descriptions of work
in progress as well as brief reports on completed projects.
This is the regional affiliate of AERA. The site primarily provides information on upcoming conferences and a means for communication among education scholars.
This site, originating at North Carolina State University, provides links to higher education assessment and evaluation sites with attention to university planning and analysis.
The Pew Charitable Trusts is a working combination of funds with a broad spectrum of service interests; its education funding is primarily
focused on policies and practices that promote student achievement. The site provides access to information on the Trusts' funding programs
and initiatives as well as publications from the Pew and its grantees.
This is the home page for a Canadian organization, the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Its mission is to disseminate
scholarship on teaching, learning, instructional development, and policy in post-secondary education, through conferences and publications.
