Assessing Student Outcomes - Why, Who, What, How?

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This volume offers administrators and practitioners a summary guideto assessment in higher education, from the reasons for undertakingassessment to the delivery of findings. It opens with the questionsthat precede an effective study and drive research design: * To what extent is the study aimed at educational improvement,and to what extent is it aimed at external accountability? * Are the results expected to demonstrate goal attainment,improvement, comparison to others, meeting standards,cost-effective investment? * What is the population from whom assessment data are beingcollected: Are we measuring the knowledge and skills of individualsand making decisions about their remediation, certification, ordevelopment? * Or are we sampling from particular groups of students andcomparing them to each other, or perhaps to themselves overtime? The core of the volume is devoted to the objects of assessment:basic skills, general education knowledge, attainment in the major,personal growth, attitudes and satisfaction, and alumni outcomes,keeping in mind both cognitive and noncognitive measures. Onechapter describes common obstacles to effective assessment; othersdescribe conceptual models, research methods, and data collectionstrategies and instruments. The concluding chapter underscores theimportance of communicating research results effectively. This is a special volume of the Jossey-Bass higher educationquarterly report series New Directions for InstitutionalResearch. Always timely and comprehensive, New Directions forInstitutional Research provides planners and administrators in alltypes of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas asresource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation,and institutional management.

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J. Fredericks Volkwein

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