A Bird's-Eye View of Assessment Selections from Editor's Notes

by Banta, Trudy W.

• ISBN13: 9781118099667
• ISBN10: 1118099664
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-19
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Here, pioneer Trudy Banta illuminates the many facets of assessment in colleges and universities during the past two decades. Addressing the principles of good assessment practice, she gives an insider's perspective and shares the larger questions and answers encountered in assessment. In the final section, she looks at assessment outside the United States. This valuable publication will give you a broader, deeper appreciation of the successes, snares, and future of outcomes assessment.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction-Selections from Trudy Banta's ôEditor's Notesö	p. 1
Some Things Never Change
On the Crest of the Wave	p. 10
Weaving Assessment into the Fabric of Higher Education	p. 13
Revealing the Results of Assessment	p. 14
This One's for Students	p. 17
The Power of a Matrix	p. 21
Welcome News About the Impact of Assessment	p. 25
You Won't Find This in Books
Are We Making A Difference?	p. 31
Toward a Scholarship of Assessment	p. 34
How Do We Know Whether We Are Making a Difference?	p. 37
Demonstrating the Impact of Changes Based on Assessment Findings	p. 42
One Bird's-Eye View of the U.S. Landscape for Assessment
Take Part in the National Goals Debate	p. 47
Do Faculty Sense the Tightening of the Accountability Noose?	p. 50
Can We Combine Peer Review and National Assessment?	p. 52
Trying to Clothe the Emperor	p. 56
Are There Measures for Improvement and Accountability?	p. 64
Tripping Lightly Around the Globe
Assessment: A Global Phenomenon	p. 68
Evaluation of Teaching and Learning in Germany	p. 70
A Global Perspective-At Last	p. 74
The Most Compelling International Dialogue to Date	p. 78
Two Conferences, Two Systems-Similar Perspectives?	p. 82
Sour Notes from Europe	p. 86
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