Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide

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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 9, 2018 - Education - 416 pages
Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general education and co-curricula; a new emphasis on synthesizing evidence of student learning into an overall picture of an integrated learning experience; new chapters on curriculum design and assessing the hard-to-assess; more thorough information on organizing assessment processes; new frameworks for rubric design and setting standards and targets; and many new resources. Faculty, administrators, new and experienced assessment practitioners, and students in graduate courses on higher education assessment will all find this a valuable addition to their bookshelves.
 

Contents

Cover
List of Tables
List of Exhibits
Introduction
What Is Assessment?
Time to think discuss and practice
What Are Effective Assessment
Time to think discuss and practice
Collaborating on Assessment
Time to think discuss and practice
Designing Rubrics to Plan and Assess
Why use a rubric?
Additional steps to consider
Creating Effective Assignments
Writing MultipleChoice and Other
Assembling Evidence of Student

Chapter 4
Characteristics of effective learning goals
How to identify what you most want students
Learning goals for specific settings
Designing Curricula to Help Students
Using curriculum maps and other tools
Student Learning
Time to think discuss and practice
Education Cocurricula and Other Settings
Guiding and Coordinating Assessment
Helping Everyone Learn What to
Time to think discuss and practice
Chapter 12
Selecting Published Instruments
Other Assessment Tools
Journals
Choosing the best assessments for program
Some learning goals cant be assessed with graded
Time to think discuss and practice
How to set an appropriately rigorous target
Analyzing Evidence of Student
Stewardship
Time to think discuss and practice
Using Evidence of Student Learning
Time to think discuss and practice
Developing written plans that work out

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About the author (2018)

LINDA SUSKIE is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, trainer, and consultant on assessment in higher education. Her previous positions included serving as Vice President at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Associate Vice President for Assessment and Institutional Research at Towson University, and Director of the Assessment Forum of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE).

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