Global Education Outcomes Assessment

Quality research on international programs is crucial to understanding their impact on student learning and informing their design.  Given this, we at Saint Mary's College are committed to both conducting our own comprehensive outcomes assessment, and helping to discern best practices by sharing our design, methods, and results, and facilitating this conversation in the broader field.  To this end, there are links below to materials from three presentations in a panel we organized at the 2005 NAFSA Conference, which include our own research timeline, instrument, and a bibliography of useful resources.  There are also materials from Connecticut College and Brigham Young University.  An update on the study of assessment and overview of the 2006 NAFSA conference will be forthcoming.  Dr. Elaine Meyer-Lee also is on the Forum on Education Abroad committee on outcomes assessment, and will be contributing a chapter to the Guidebook they are writing. 

2009 NAFSA Conference, May 26-29, 2009

• Assessment Toolbox for International Educators (Power Point)

  Presenters: David Comp, University of Chicago

                    Darla Deardorff, Duke University

                    Elaine Meyer-Lee, Saint Mary's College

                    Lee Glover Sternberg, James Madison University

                    Victor Savicki, Western Oregon University

• Assessment Tools of Intercultural Communicative Competence (pdf)  

2006 NAFSA Conference, May 21 -26, 2006

• Assessing International Education at our Institutions: An Overview (Power Point)

Presenters:   Elaine Merer-Lee, Saint Mary's College

                   Darla Deardorff, Duke University

                              David Comp, University of Chicago

• Using the IDI to Measure the Impact of Saint Mary's College Study Abroad Programs (Power Point)

Presenter:  Elaine Meyer-Lee, Saint Mary's College

2006 AIEA Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2006

International Education:  Knowledge, Experience, Action

• Assessing Impact:  Study Abroad at Two Institutions (Power Point) Presenters:  Elaine Meyer-Lee, Saint Mary's College

                  Carol Warfield, Auburn University

2005 NAFSA Conference

Assessing Student Outcomes in Study Abroad Programs

Chair and Presenter:  Elaine Meyer-Lee, Saint Mary's College

Presenters:  Mary S. Devins, Connecticut College

                   Marie Durrant, Brigham Young University

• Multi-method Longitudinal Assessment of Intercultural Engagement, Intercultural Sensitivity, Identity and Goals - Saint Mary's College Presentation (pdf)
• Saint Mary's College Bibliography (pdf)
• Saint Mary's College Program Evaluation (pdf)
• Connecticut College (pdf)
• Brigham Young University (pdf)