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Our Assessment Consulting team offers consultations to UT Austin instructors, staff, and administrators whose focus is on research and assessment related to classroom instruction and student learning. Consultants from the Assessment area have specific training in research design and analysis, student learning assessment, and classroom assessment.

Please contact us at ctl-assessment@utlists.utexas.edu to discuss your research and assessment needs. 

Student Learning Assessment

We assist UT Austin instructors in assessing their students' learning throughout their courses. We can assist with identifying instructional and student learning outcomes, planning formative and summative assessments, developing exam strategies, creating valid grading rubrics, reviewing exam questions, and interpreting results.

To request individualized consultation, contact us at ctl-assessment@utlists.utexas.edu or visit the Assessment Group listing on the Contact Us page.

In addition to individualized consultation, we also provide scheduled workshops for faculty, staff, and students as well as customized instruction for academic departments and academic support units.

Educational Research

We partner with UT Austin faculty, staff, and administrators in conducting educational research related to student readiness and achievement and effectiveness of instructional innovations.

Research topics related to student readiness and achievement include the following:

• identification of variables that predict success in college,
• relationship of national standardized test scores to other variables, and
• impact of credit by examination on performance in college.

Research topics related to instructional innovations include analyzing the impact of teaching and student learning in the following:

• content delivery methods,
• testing approaches, and
• technology.

We can provide expertise in research design and analysis, i.e., identifying hypotheses, designing data collection instruments, conducting data analysis, and interpreting and reporting results.