Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education (Jossey-Bass Highter and Adult Education) - Softcover

Walvoord, Barbara E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787973114 ISBN 13: 9780787973117

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Synopsis

Assessment Clear and Simple is "Assessment 101" in a book––a concise and step–by–step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost–efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple explores a variety of topics and shows how to:

• Build on assessment already in place
• Use classroom work and grading process
• Get faculty and department on board
• Assess hard to define goals such as moral and civic development
• Development workable learning goals
• Tailor assessment to its purposes
• Select sensible assessment measures
• Make criteria explicit
• Use assessment to improve learning
• Establish effective oversight without an assessment bureaucracy
• Write an assessment report
• Interpret the institution′s culture to external audiences

About this title

About the Author

Barbara E. Walvoord is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and concurrent professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She has been coordinator of Notre Dame s regional accreditation self–study, founding director of four faculty development programs, consultant to more than 250 institutions, and the author of Effective Grading from Jossey–Bass.

From the Back Cover

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 useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple explores a variety of topics and shows how to

• Build on assessment already in place
• Use classroom work and grading process
• Get faculty and department on board
• Assess hard–to–define goals such as moral and civic development
• Develop workable learning goals
• Tailor assessment to its purposes
• Select sensible assessment measures
• Make criteria explicit
• Use assessment to improve learning
• Establish effective oversight without an assessment bureaucracy
• Write an assessment report
• Interpret the institution’s culture to external audiences

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787973114
• ISBN 13: 9780787973117
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160