FIPSE funded project: Assessing International Learning

Summary of Assessment Instruments

Direct Measures

1. Tests
   1. Global Literacy Survey—National Geographic Society. 
   2. Global Awareness Profile—Corbitt, J. N. (1998). Intercultural Press Inc.
   3. Annual Dean Rusk International Awareness Test—Davidson College.
   4. Educational Testing Service Measures of Global Understanding (1981)—Summary sheet.
   5. International Knowledge Questionnaire, Center for Survey Research, MSU.
      
      
2. Portfolios
   1. Portfolio Assessment of Intercultural Competence”—Jacobson, W., Sleicher, D., & Burke, M. (1999). International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 23(3).  (Subscription required)
   2. Database and guidelines for student ePortfolios—Kalamazoo College.
   3. Summary of Learning Record Online—University of Texas.
   4. Capstone Essays, International Studies Certificate program—Binghamton University (89KB; PDF).
      
      
3. Interviews/Oral Examinations
   1. Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI).
   2. ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview—Summary of guidelines.
   3. Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Levels—Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing.

Indirect Measures

1. Surveys
   1. Study Abroad Alumni Survey (Memories of College)—Dickinson College (106KB; PDF).
   2. Internationalization Questionnaire—Arcadia University (49KB; PDF).
   3. International Mission Faculty Survey—Missouri Southern State University (75KB; PDF).
   4. Sample Graduate Survey (College of Management)—Castelli, Green, & Lafayette. (2002). Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education. Overland Park, KS: International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education.
   5. International Experience Demographic Form—developed by JMU to accompany Wiseman, Hammer, & Nishida’s 1989 update of the Worldmindedness Scale (Sampson & Smith, 1957) (33KB; PDF).
   6. Study Abroad Program Survey—Kalamazoo College (60KB; PDF).
   7. Survey of Alumni with Doctorate Degrees—Kalamazoo College (46KB; PDF).
   8. Survey of 2000 Graduates and Analysis—Binghamton University (70KB; PDF).
      
      
2. Inventories
   1. Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory.
   2. Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI).
   3. The Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI) (46KB; PDF).
   4. Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

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