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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Mul...
