A Bird's-Eye View of Assessment E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Serie: Assessment Update Special Collections
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 140

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Here, pioneer Trudy Banta illuminates the many facets of assessmentin colleges and universities during the past two decades.Addressing the principles of good assessment practice, she gives aninsider?s perspective and shares the larger questions and answersencountered in assessment. In the final section, she looks atassessment outside the United States. This valuable publicationwill give you a broader, deeper appreciation of the successes,snares, and future of outcomes assessment.

Leseprobe

Contents

Introduction: Selections from Trudy Banta’s “Editor’s Notes”

Section One: Some Things Never Change

On the Crest of the Wave

Weaving Assessment into the Fabric of Higher Education

Revealing the Results of Assessment

This One’s for Students

The Power of a Matrix

Welcome News About the Impact of Assessment

Section Two: You Won’t Find This in Books

Are We Making A Difference?

Toward a Scholarship of Assessment

How Do We Know Whether We Are Making a Difference?

Demonstrating the Impact of Changes Based on Assessment Findings

Section Three: One Bird’s-Eye View of the U.S. Landscape for Assessment

Take Part in the National Goals Debate

Do Faculty Sense the Tightening of the Accountability Noose?

Can We Combine Peer Review and National Assessment?

Trying to Clothe the Emperor

Are There Measures for Improvement and Accountability?

Section Four: Tripping Lightly Around the Globe

Assessment: A Global Phenomenon

Evaluation of Teaching and Learning in Germany

A Global Perspective—At Last

The Most Compelling International Dialogue to Date

Two Conferences, Two Systems—Similar Perspectives?

Sour Notes from Europe

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INTRODUCTION

Selections from Trudy Banta’s “Editor’s Notes”

1989–2010

What a privilege it is to have the opportunity to look back over more than 20 years of contributions to Assessment Update and share some of my favorite columns with you! As I contemplated this pleasant task, I thought it might be difficult to identify a few distinct categories for the more than 80 of my “Editor’s Notes” columns. But once I dove into the pile of issues, I discovered that wasn’t hard at all. Soon I was able to sort each issue into one of four stacks. Then I went through each stack and selected the half-dozen or so columns that seemed to tell the most important stories. Winnowing that collection to a set manageable within these covers was the most challenging part of the assignment.

The Four Stacks