Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide - Softcover

Suskie, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119426936 ISBN 13: 9781119426936

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2018

Synopsis

Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general education and co-curricula; a new emphasis on synthesizing evidence of student learning into an overall picture of an integrated learning experience; new chapters on curriculum design and assessing the hard-to-assess; more thorough information on organizing assessment processes; new frameworks for rubric design and setting standards and targets; and many new resources. Faculty, administrators, new and experienced assessment practitioners, and students in graduate courses on higher education assessment will all find this a valuable addition to their bookshelves.

About this title

About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119426936
• ISBN 13: 9781119426936
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416