Assessment essentials : planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education

• Main Authors: Banta, Trudy W., 1941- (Author), Palomba, Catherine A., 1943- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand, [2015]
• Edition: Second edition
• Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
• Subjects: vysoké školy > Spojené státy americké; pedagogická evaluace; universities and colleges > United States; educational evaluation; monografie; monographs
• ISBN: 9781118903322
• Physical Description: xxiv, 339 stran ; 25 cm

Table of Contents:

• 1. Defining assessment
• 2. Assessment essentials
• 3. Engaging faculty and students in assessment
• 4. Setting expectations and preparing to select measures
• 5. Using direct measures
• 6. Using indirect assessment methods
• 7. Assessing learning in the major
• 8. Assessing learning in general education
• 9. Assessing student learning and program effectiveness in student affairs
• 10. Analyzing, reporting, and using assessment results
• 11. Assessing institutional effectiveness
• 12. Summing up: a time of transition