Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice

Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice
ISBN-10
0470393343
ISBN-13
9780470393345
Category
Education
Pages
338
Language
English
Published
2009-07-14
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Trudy W. Banta, Elizabeth A. Jones, Karen E. Black

Description

Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed thenational landscape for the campus examples that were published inthe classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significantadvances have occurred, including the use of technology to organizeand manage the assessment process and increased reliance onassessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancingstudent learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Blackoffer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning,implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical andready to apply in new settings. This important resource can helpeducators put in place an effective process for determining whatworks and which improvements will have the most impact in improvingcurriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on collegeand university campuses. "Institutional researchers, accreditation committee members,faculty, and all the rest of us working to assess student learningwill be inspired by the examples of good practices set in ascholarly context by Banta, Jones, and Black." —Randy L.Swing, executive director, Association for InstitutionalResearch "The authors' long and deep experience in assessment hasinformed this wonderful resource, which combines overarchingprinciples of effective assessment with concrete case studies drawnfrom diverse institutions. Readers will learn how to go beyondusing standardized test scores as the sole measure of learning, howto establish classroom-based assessment, how to use multipleassessment data for improvement, and how to get faculty involved inthe process." —Barbara E. Walvoord, author, Effective Gradingand Assessment Clear and Simple "Higher education's preeminent assessment scholars have done itagain, responding to growing requests for assessment models andexamples of good practice with an extensive array of meaningful,practical profiles. No matter what your institution's mission, andno matter where you are in the assessment process, you will find awealth of ideas here." —Linda Suskie, author, AssessingStudent Learning: A Common Sense Guide

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