Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (JB - Anker)
Books / Hardcover
Books › Psychology › Assessment, Testing & Measurement
ISBN: 1882982711 / Publisher: Jossey-Bass, June 2004
Suskie (Towson U.) believes in developing an assessment culture in schools and universities. She describes assessment as a four-step continuous cycle of establishing learning goals, providing learning opportunities, assessing student learning, and making good use of results. She provides rubrics for evaluating a variety of learning opportunities and media, and supplies model examinations, surveys, checklists, and reports for publication. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Interest in assessing student learning at institutions of higher education—and the need to learn how to do it—continues to gather the attention and support begun nearly 30 years ago. This book summarizes contemporary thinking on the practice of assessing student learning in a comprehensive, accessible, and useful fashion. This book is short on background and theory and long on practical advice. Plainspoken and informally written, it offers sensible guidance for assessment practitioners on all aspects of student assessment and for faculty who simply want to improve assessment within their classrooms. Assessing Student Learning presents readers with well-informed principles and options that they can select and adapt to their own circumstances.Linda Suskie, currently the Vice President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, has worked for 30 years in higher education assessment, institutional research, strategic planning, and continuous improvement.Organized into four parts, this bookSets the stage for successful assessment efforts by discussing the nature of and rationale for assessment, principles of good practice, and campus cultureProvides an overview of the many decisions that must be made in order to launch successful assessment efforts, including planning assessment strategies, establishing learning goals, and choosing appropriate assessment tools and approachesIncludes information on a wide range of assessment tools, including hands-on assignments, reflective writing, portfolios, traditional tests, surveys and focus groups, and published instrumentsConcludes with information on summarizing, analyzing, and communicating assessment results and using them effectively and appropriately
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