Chuck Green, in one of his numerous presentations around the campus on assessment, lists these as qualities of effective assessment:

• Benefits students directly (provides them with greater information about their strengths and weaknesses) and indirectly (improves the program)
• Is focused on one or two selected items
• Is embedded within the program itself for greater efficiency and greater validity (course assignments, field placements, research projects, etc.). Effective assessment is a component of effective pedagogy since it:
  1. Utilizes existing measures
  2. Integrates additional measures
  3. Revises or replaces courses based on assessment information

• Knows when good enough is enough (balances desire for comprehensive information with constraints on student time, faculty time, and the budget)
• Recognizes that all news is good news