This resource guide provides a basic orientation to outcomes assessment for optometric educators and provides resource tools that may be useful in an assessment program. (EV)

Outlines eight steps that will help optometry schools transition a faculty from "denial" of the need for assessment to "institutionalization": establish a collaborative environment, establish an infrastructure that makes assessment an integral activity, recruit a leader for full implementation of outcomes assessment, conduct a needs assessment,…

A survey of the academic officers of optometric institutions suggests that outcomes assessment varies substantially across programs in the areas of curriculum, scholarship and research, faculty, administration, and facilities. (EV)