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Robust, efficient outcomes assessment at scale

Assessment Projects by Watermark is a juried assessment software solution that helps you assess learning outcomes and get actionable insights quickly — without overwhelming your faculty and staff. 

Built based on client feedback and decades of experience supporting learning outcome measurement, it’s expressly designed to help assessment leaders streamline data collection, scoring, and reporting with sampling-based assessment of institutional, programmatic, and course-level outcomes.

A great fit for …

  • Cross-course assessment of general education learning outcomes
  • Assessing performance of overarching institution-wide initiatives, like first-year programs
  • Scaling assessment of institutional, program, and course learning outcomes

See Assessment Projects in action

Assessment project homepage for administrators, wit, project status, setup tasks, project details summary, activities list and evaluators list

Get moving quickly with straightforward setup

A prompt-based wizard makes it simple to build your assessment project and bring all the right pieces together – like outcomes, rubrics, artifacts, evaluators, sampling and scoring rules.

  • Source artifacts through an integration with your Learning Management System or a bulk upload.
  • Use the pre-loaded AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes and VALUE rubrics or configure your own to meet your institutional and programmatic needs. 
  • Automations do the heavy lifting of randomized sampling and evenly distributed assignment of artifacts to qualified evaluators based on your rules.
Evaluation Details settings in the assessment project activity editor - Evaluation count field, score discrepancy check on-off toggle, point variance field

Foster accuracy, mitigate bias

Employ a host of capabilities to drive more equitable assessment.

  • Anonymize student work if needed.
  • Prevent evaluators from scoring their own students’ submissions – or not.
  • Automatic score variance checks detect and handle notable discrepancies between evaluator scores.
An evaluator’s student artifact evaluation screen with artifact on left, comment box on right, and rubric and score entry on bottom

Keep things clear and minimize disruption with intuitive scoring

Clear navigation and workflow prompts make it easy for faculty to get to work, without extensive training.

  • The project homepage with progress indicators and assigned queues make it clear to faculty what they need to assess and how to get started.
  • A side-by-side view of the rubric and student work makes it easy to score and move on.
Assessment Project Results tab with chart of results by outcome and option to expand to see results by rubric criteria

Instant takeaways

  • Monitor evaluator progress and keep things on track with on-screen visibility to their assessment completion rate.
  • Understand achievement and identify opportunities for improvement immediately with reports that synthesize performance by project, outcome and rubric.
  • Share findings with stakeholders through exports.
Get more from the Watermark Suite

Assessment Projects is strong on its own, but it’s also integrated at its core with Watermark Student Learning & Licensure to provide a unified place to measure and report on learning outcomes achievement. Together they create a hub for direct measurement, with shared outcomes and rubrics, consistent user experiences, and a menu of sampling-, course- and field-based methods to use to meet your institution’s nuanced assessment needs.

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