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Assessment Update

Continuing a tradition of more than 30 years, Assessment Update, an award-winning bi-monthly publication from Wiley, is committed to sharing emerging and enduring developments, practices, and thought leadership in the dynamic and continually evolving field of higher education assessment and improvement.

Assessment Update provides a broad audience of higher education leaders with current trends, proven approaches, promising practices, and practical advice relevant to assessment and improvement in a range of areas, including accreditation, student learning and development, teaching and instructional activities, academic programs and curricula, student affairs and co-curricular experiences, institutional data collection, and overall institutional planning.

Assessment Update keeps readers at the forefront of:

sustained cultures of assessment and improvement
equitable and culturally responsive assessment
institutional and organizational initiatives to advance the field of assessment
learning improvement efforts
assessment of student learning, engagement, and success
perspectives from higher education assessment thought leaders
and more

Subscriptions

Assessment Update is a bimonthly publication available in electronic format for individual and institutional subscribrs. For more information on subscribing, please click HERE or contact Wiley customer service team at 888-378-2537.

*Assessment Update* is a recipient of the 2022 APEX Award. This award recognized writing for the entire November/December 2021 issue (Volume 33, Issue 6), which was devoted to the “Grand Challenges in Assessment” project.

*Assessment Update* is a recipient of the 2020 APEX Award. This award recognized a 6-part series Executive Editor Stephen Hundley wrote, entitled The Leadership Imperatives for Assessment Excellence, as part of the Editor’s Notes appearing in all issues of *Assessment Update* in 2019.

Additional Articles

Click here for additional articles not included in the Assessment Update 32:6 special edition on "Adapting Assessment Approaches in the COVID-19 Era."

Editorial Board

Executive Editor: Stephen P. Hundley, IUPUI
Associate Editor: Caleb J. Keith, IUPUI
Assistant Editor: A. Katherine Busby, The University of Mississippi
Consulting Editors: Assessment experts representing various fields
Founding Editor: Trudy W. Banta, IUPUI

Call for Contributions

The editors welcome articles and news items for Assessment Update. Guidelines follow for those who would like to contribute articles on assessment and improvement in higher education.

Content: Assessment Update encourages submissions related to various aspects of higher education assessment and improvement, including but not limited to accreditation, assessment methods, curricular and co-curricular assessment, institution-wide data collection and use, leadership for assessment, and the use of technology. Submissions should have practical application for the readership. When possible, include concrete examples of practice and results. Additionally, please send an account of your experience with assessment in higher education.
Audience: Assessment Update readers are academic administrators, campus assessment practitioners, institutional researchers, and higher education faculty from a variety of fields and disciplines. All types of institutions are represented in the readership.
Style: A report, essay, news story, or letter to the editor is welcome. Please write your submission with a broad audience in mind and limit technical jargon so that anyone interested in higher education assessment and improvement can comprehend it, regardless of experience. Limited references can be printed; however, extensive tables and figures cannot be included. If submitting graphs or figures with your article, please endeavor to provide vector graphics (e.g., .svg, .eps, or .ai files) with 300 dpi resolution. Graphs and images created in Adobe Illustrator are best. Text tables created in Word are acceptable. Please contact aupdate@iu.edu with questions.
Format: Articles may be sent to aupdate@iu.edu as a Microsoft Word attachment. Please include your complete postal mailing address.
Length: 1,500–2,000 words, including references.
Copyright: Articles shall not have been registered for copyright or published elsewhere prior to publication in Assessment Update.
Deadlines: Submissions are accepted at any time. Issues are typically planned four months before publication; but generally, submissions are chosen on a first-in, first-out basis.

For more, please go to www.assessmentupdate.com or contact the Assessment Update editor at aupdate@iu.edu.

Mailing Address for Contributions

Stephen P. Hundley, Executive Editor
Assessment Update
301 University Blvd.
Suite 4049 University Hall
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Email: aupdate@iu.edu