Findings from the first-year literature review, state assessment policy documents, and a focus group conducted with state higher education academic officers provided the framework for the State Higher Education Assessment Questionnaire, or SHEAQ. The SHEAQ had three primary goals: (1) to test the assumptions and conclusions reached during the first year; (2) to explore the dynamics of the policy process by which assessment becomes a state-level issue or concern; and (3) to understand better the multifaceted relationship between state assessment policy on one hand and the improvement of teaching and learning on the other. The questionnaire contained twenty-one items, divided into six sections—policy context, policy objectives, policy process, policy outcomes, policy evaluation, and future directions.