Units use many different assessment methods.
As with teaching and classroom assessment methods, they reflect differences in normal practice from discipline to discipline, differences in the particular faculty members involved, and practical constraints such as the number of majors a unit has and its typical class sizes. Simply put, they must demonstrate that their efforts are not merely self-serving. This usually involves separating the role of evaluator from that of instructor. Student papers and portfolios and performance on embedded questions are independently evaluated by more than one faculty member, at least one of whom is not an instructor in the course from which the material came. In some units, a separate outcomes assessment committee or undergraduate curriculum committee is responsible for these evaluations.