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Assessment Clear and Simple : A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Educ...

by: Walvoord, Barbara E.; Banta, Trudy W.

ISBN: 9780470541197 | 0470541199

Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: 4/12/2010

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an institution. It contains effective strategies for meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies,... MORE legislatures, review boards, and others, while emphasizing and showing how to move from data to actions that improve student learning. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes many new or expanded features, including:Illustrative examples drawn from the author's experience consulting with more than 350 institutionsA basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for general educationTips on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the assessment processSuggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including doing assessment for multidisciplinary workClear instructions on how to construct a coherent institution-wide assessment system and explain it to accreditorsIdeas for assigning responsibility for general education assessmentStrategies for gathering information about departmental assessment while keeping the departmental workload manageableInformation on how to manage assessment in times of budgetary cutbacksPraise for the Second Edition of Assessment Clear and Simple"Walvoord's approach to assessment is wonderfully straightforward; it is also effective in facilitating faculty engagement in assessment. We've applied a number of her methods to our campus assessment efforts with success. This book makes assessment both manageable and useful in improving and enhancing student learning."-Martha L. A. Stassen, director of assessment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and president, New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN)"Walvoord's work clearly presents the basics for getting started in assessment of student learning while honestly addressing the complexities of assessment when driven by faculty passion for student learning. This book is a valuable resource for the novice as well as the developing experts who are leading their institutions in academic assessment."-Bobbi Allen, faculty assessment director, Delta College

Assessment Clear and Simple provides a concise, step-by-step guide for the assessment process. This practical book provides cost-efficient and useful tools that fulfill the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and etc. to ensure a simple, successful assessment. With an easy-to-read manner, this toolkit explores the areas of planning, budgeting, and the changes in the curriculum, pedagogy, and programming. This modified edition includes new standardized tests, portfolios, and e-portfolios for the assessment process, and new institution-wide planning tools developed by the author for anyone involved in higher education.

Foreword to the First Edition
About the Author
For Everyone: The Basics of Assessment
For Institution-Wide Leaders and Planners
For Departments and Programs
For General Education
Appendices
Curriculum Map
Student Consent Form
Analyzing Audiences for Assessment
Sample Rubrics... MORE
Resources
References
Index
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Barbara E. Walvoord is professor emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She was coordinator of Notre Dame's regional accreditation self-study, the founding director of four faculty development programs? all of which have won national acclaim?and a consultant on assessment. She is the coauthor of Effective Grading, from Jossey-Bass.

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