Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment: A Deeper Focus on Student Learning (Jb - Anker Series) - Hardcover

Wehlburg, Catherine M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470261358 ISBN 13: 9780470261354

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2008

Synopsis

Assessment plays a key role in institutions of higher education. However, many colleges and universities simply add their assessment plans onto other teaching, learning, service, and research activities in order to prepare for an impending accreditation visit. In this important resource, Catherine M. Wehlburg outlines an integrated and ongoing system for assessment that both prepares for an accreditation visit and truly enhances student learning. This innovative approach can be adapted for use in a wide variety of situations to transform a department or an entire institution.

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About the Author

Catherine M. Wehlburg is executive director of the Office for Assessment and Quality Enhancement at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She presents workshops on assessment, academic transformation, and teaching and learning.

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Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment

Assessment plays a key role in institutions of higher education. However, many colleges and universities simply add their assessment plans onto other teaching, learning, service, and research activities in order to prepare for an impending accreditation visit. In this important resource, Catherine M. Wehlburg outlines an integrated and ongoing system for assessment that both prepares for an accreditation visit and truly enhances student learning. This innovative approach can be adapted for use in a wide variety of situations to transform a department or an entire institution.

Praise for Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment

"Outcomes assessment at its best has the power to transform programs and institutions. Wehlburg provides a detailed account of the kind of assessment that can truly be transformative."
—Trudy W. Banta, professor of higher education, senior advisor to the chancellor for academic planning and evaluation, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

"With today's increasing calls for accountability, the higher education community has never needed more urgently Catherine Wehlburg's focus on the true core purpose of assessment: enhancing student learning."
—Linda Suskie, vice president, Middle States Commission on Higher Education

"Wehlburg presents a compelling case for doing assessment so that it could and should make a difference in student learning."
—George D. Kuh, chancellor's professor and director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

"For a variety of internal and external reasons, all colleges and universities must start doing a better job, not only of collecting assessment data but of actually using it to improve student learning. As we work on this challenging task, Wehlburg's Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment will clearly become the 'go-to' book for figuring out how to do this in a meaningful, appropriate, and sustainable way."
—Dee Fink, author, Creating Significant Learning Experiences

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470261358
• ISBN 13: 9780470261354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224