Linda Suskie

Assessing Student Learning

A Common Sense Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

THE ACCLAIMED, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STUDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENT, REVISED AND UPDATED Now in its third edition, Assessing Student Learning continues to offer college faculty and administrators an accessible and authoritative guide for assessing student learning in a variety of higher education settings. Linda Suskie--an internationally recognized expert--presents a wealth of well-informed principles as well as flexible, adaptable options. This book is a time-tested, straightforward guide filled with practical advice that can help meet ever-increasing needs for ensuring and demonstrating educational quality, stewardship, and accountability. Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition highlights the latest thinking on student learning assessment. This edition now offers guidance on how to assess student learning in targeted settings such as: the classroom, general education curricula, undergraduate and graduate programs, and co-curricular and student development programs. It also reviews current research on rubrics and offers new chapters on curriculum design and on assessing the hard-to-assess. In addition, the third edition offers greatly expanded suggestions for building a meaningful, pervasive, and cost-effective culture of assessment, and it presents a broader variety of strategies to help guide and coordinate successful assessment efforts. The third edition also offers fresh ideas on setting standards and targets for student performance and on how to summarize, analyze, share, and use evidence of student learning. Written both for those familiar with assessment and for those just getting started, Assessing Student Learning provides an essential guide to every aspect of the assessment process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 217mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 917g
• ISBN-13: 9781119426936
• ISBN-10: 1119426936
• Artikelnr.: 51379750

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables vii
List of Lists ix
List of Figure xiii
List of Exhibits xv
Preface to the Third Edition xix
Introduction 1
Part 1 Understanding Assessment
Chapter 1 What Is Assessment? 7
Chapter 2 The Many Settings for Student Learning and Assessment 15
Chapter 3 What Are Effective Assessment Practices? 23
Part 2 Laying a Foundation for Assessment Success
Chapter 4 Learning Goals: Articulating What You Most Want Students to Learn
39
Chapter 5 Designing Curricula to Help Students Learn What's Important 63
Chapter 6 How Will Your Evidence of Student Learning be Used? 85
Chapter 7 Planning Assessments in Academic Programs 93
Chapter 8 Planning Assessments in General Education, Co-curricula, and
Other Settings 105
Part 3 Building a Pervasive, Enduring Culture of Evidence and Betterment
Chapter 9 Guiding and Coordinating Assessment Efforts 117
Chapter 10 Helping Everyone Learn What to Do 127
Chapter 11 Supporting Assessment Efforts 139
Chapter 12 Keeping Assessment Cost-Effective 149
Chapter 13 Collaborating on Assessment 165
Chapter 14 Valuing Assessment and the People Who Contribute 175
Part 4 The Assessment Toolbox
Chapter 15 Designing Rubrics to Plan and Assess Assignments 189
Chapter 16 Creating Effective Assignments 205
Chapter 17 Writing Multiple-Choice and Other Objective Tests 215
Chapter 18 Assembling Evidence of Student Learning into Portfolios 235
Chapter 19 Selecting Published Instruments 245
Chapter 20 Other Assessment Tools 259
Chapter 21 Assessing the Hard-to-Assess 273
Part 5 Understanding and Using Evidence of Student Learning
Chapter 22 Setting Meaningful Standards and Targets 287
Chapter 23 Summarizing and Storing Evidence of Student Learning 305
Chapter 24 Analyzing Evidence of Student Learning 319
Chapter 25 Sharing Evidence of Student Learning 333
Chapter 26 Using Evidence of Student Learning to Inform
Important Decisions 355
References 367
Index 377