Here, pioneer Trudy Banta illuminates the many facets of assessmentin colleges and universities during the past two decades.Addressing the principles of good assessment practice, she gives aninsider?s perspective and shares the larger questions and answersencountered in assessment. In the final section, she looks atassessment outside the United States. This valuable publicationwill give you a broader, deeper appreciation of the successes, snares, and future of outcomes assessment.
Table of Content
Introduction–Selections from Trudy Banta’s ‘Editor’s Notes’ 1
Some Things Never Change.
On the Crest of the Wave 10
Weaving Assessment into the Fabric of Higher Education 13
Revealing the Results of Assessment 14
This One’s for Students 17
The Power of a Matrix 21
Welcome News About the Impact of Assessment 25
You Won’t Find This in Books.
Are We Making A Difference? 31
Toward a Scholarship of Assessment 34
How Do We Know Whether We Are Making a Difference? 37
Demonstrating the Impact of Changes Based on Assessment Findings42
One Bird’s-Eye View of the U.S. Landscape for Assessment.
Take Part in the National Goals Debate 47
Do Faculty Sense the Tightening of the Accountability Noose?50
Can We Combine Peer Review and National Assessment? 52
Trying to Clothe the Emperor 56
Are There Measures for Improvement and Accountability? 64
Tripping Lightly Around the Globe.
Assessment: A Global Phenomenon 68
Evaluation of Teaching and Learning in Germany 70
A Global Perspective–At Last 74
The Most Compelling International Dialogue to Date 78
Two Conferences, Two Systems–Similar Perspectives? 82
Sour Notes from Europe 86
About the author
Trudy Banta, editor of Assessment Update since 1989, is a pioneer in outcomes assessment in higher education. She founded the Center for Assessment Research and Development at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, before moving to Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is a professor and vice chancellor for planning and institutional improvement. She coordinates strategic planning for the campus, academic and administrative program review, the evaluation of student learning outcomes, and the assessment of institutional effectiveness.
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