Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education
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Book Overview
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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0787973114
ISBN13:9780787973117
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:Jossey-Bass
Length:145 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 8.6" x 11.0"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Good book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Assessment never seems to be simple, but this book manages to boil it down to the main points. I like how it is organized, and the appendices offer some good starting points for tools that you can customize to suit your own needs.
Looking for Help with Assessment
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book is an excellent resource for someone trying to understand how good assessment works. It is very easy to understand, provides lots of examples and doesn't try to confuse the reader by using excessive education jargon. A very good buy.
Great for beginners
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
If your college is just beginning institutional assessment, then this is the book for you. It has several talking points that will allow faculty and the administration to join together in the task. Overall, I enjoyed it.
Very practical, highly usable
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This is a great introduction to the assessment process with chapters specifically for departments and general education. The appendices include sample forms and processes for all types of assessment. A great practical resource for anyone responsible for creating an institutional or departmental assessment program. I know at my institution, faculty and administrators have been looking for something like this that can give them a concrete process for doing assessment. If you have only one book on assessment, this should be it. Other books fill in more about the theory and why, but the theory and why are nothing without implementation.
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