Assessment clear and simple: a practical guide for institutions, departments, and general education

Assessment Clear and Simple is ‘Assessment 101’ in a book--a concise, step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and usefulto the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple can help your institution employ assessment as a powerful instrument for improvement and provide a basis for wiser planning, budgeting, and change in curriculum, pedagogy, staffing, programming, and student support. Features of the book include: Practical, sensible, and sustainable methods Emphasizes action, and shows how to move from data to actions that improve student learning Brief, to-the-point, and focused: an introductory chapter for everyone, followed by chapters for institutional leaders, departments, and general educationShows how to integrate assessment with program review, strategic planning, and budgeting Models how to explain your assessment system to accreditors Emphasizes classroom assessment, explaining in detail how classroom work can be aggregated and used for assessment in departments and general education New features of the second edition: Contains many examples drawn from Walvoords experience consulting on assessment with more than 350 institutions Presents the basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for general education Includesdetailed examples about how to analyze and use assessment data More information on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the assessment processNew sections on using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including the advantages and disadvantages of generic rubrics for multidisciplinary work Expanded section on how to construct a coherent institution-wide assessment system and explain it to accreditors Assumes that assessment is already going on, and shows how to build on what you already have Expanded treatment of standardized tests, surveys, and consortial reporting agreements (such as the Voluntary System of Accountability) that institutions are under pressure to use More on howto assign responsibility for general education assessment How to manage assessment in times of budgetary cutbacks How to gather information about departmental assessment while keeping the departmental workload manageableBarbara E. Walvoord is professor emerita at the University of Notre Dame. Shehas been coordinator of Notre Dame's regional accreditation self-study; founding director of four faculty development programs all of which have won national acclaim; consultant on assessment, leaching and learning, and writing across the curriculum to more than 350 institutions; a professor of composition, literature, and interdisciplinary humanities for more than thirty years; and thecoauthor of Effective Grading from Jossey-Bass.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-54119-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 144
• Fecha Publicación: 21/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés