When regional and disciplinary accrediting bodies focus on student learning outcomes or competencies and include mandates to base program improvement on evidence, higher education faculty may need to examine their evaluation/assessment plans as well as their programs. To facilitate program improvement based on evidence, it is sensible to align curricular planning, teaching, and evaluation/assessment. Unfortunately, many faculty members have little background in evaluation/assessment (Kuh & Ikenberry, 2009). Further, although literature abounds on curriculum development, instruction, and program evaluation, little advice has been published on aligning the three. We will describe how our faculty accomplished this alignment. We will discuss and provide examples of several tools that can help provide direction and consistency to faculty about to embark on the journey of aligning improvement efforts to evaluation/assessment and evaluation/assessment to student learning outcomes or competencies. Although we focus on social work, the process can be applied in any educational program.#AssessmentinHigherEducation #2011Conference