Patrick, another way of looking at assessments is also a measure of your effectiveness as an instructor and the quality of the lesson plans. If 19 out of 20 students are doing well quarter after quarter in your classes then your methodology and quality of the lesson plan may not need much change. However if you notice that every quarter there are several students that are falling behind or not achieving the goals of the lesson plan then something else may need to be considered. Too often novice instructors look at the averages and say over 80% of their students are achieving the course goals but the real issue is every quarter around 20% are not achieving and this is a large enough number to be concerning and a different approach may need to be considered. Do you maintain course by course statistics so you can look for patterns in the overall effectiveness of your learning outcomes? Thanks for anything you can share. James Jackson