Prepared by a Provost's Task Force on Assessment of Quality and Outcomes of Undergraduate Education, this report reviews the background of the currently burgeoning "assessment" movement and sets forth principles to guide the University of Arizona's efforts to redefine and reassess the quality and outcomes of its undergraduate programs. It also presents a comprehensive model for assessing undergraduate education and sketches a plan for implementation of this model at Arizona. Part 1 (a framework for assessment) focuses on the following: aims of undergraduate education; a comprehensive approach to assessment (assessment of the institutional environment, student learning and development outcomes, value-added student learning and development, and institutional influences on student learning); a model for assessing undergraduate education; and design principles (multidimensional view of quality, multiple methods of assessment, multiple sources of information, and use of existing data). Part 2 (implementation plan) looks at: transition team; Center for Research on Undergraduate Education; stages of implementation (preliminary assessment and completion of assessment plan, assessment of student outcomes and environmental influences, assessment of the institutional environment, assessment of the value-added student learning and development, and studies on institutional influences on student learning). Appended are: a sample student data record; a time line implementation; and student data record flow. Contains 7 tables and 10 references. (SM)